FEATURE: From Homes fit for Heroes to council flats – and how prefabs helped to house thousands of victims of wartime bombing
By Harry Mottram: If you go down to Badocks Wood in Henleaze, Bristol, and head up towards the Southmead Round Barrow…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: when Bristol City was a football power house in Edwardian England and ‘Fatty’ Wedlock was their star player – decades before the World Cup was created
When ‘Fatty’ Wedlock took City to the FA Cup Final By Harry Mottram. They often say you can be fat and…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE feature: the day Tarzan was desperate for a pee but ended up sitting on a toilet on the centre court in Wimbledon
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE feature: the day Tarzan was desperate for a pee but ended up sitting on a toilet on the…
Feature: A short (and hidden) history of women’s rugby union
By Harry Mottram: Despite over 130 years of rugby union played by a wide variety of club teams in Bristol…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: a nightmarish run through a post apocalyptic Britain in Adrian J Walker’s The End of The World Running Club in which the landscape is almost as grim as the characters
Book Review. The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker: Set in the future after the world is…
Rapscallion Magazine Radio Review: Simon Fanshaw’s exploration of Gilbert Harding – The Rudest Man In Britain – but also a man ahead of his time – despite being a man from another poorer era
Radio Review. The Rudest Man in Britain. BBC Radio 4 Extra : It’s easy to forget how deferential Britain was in…
Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: from a grey and depressed post war London to flood hit Florence Sarah Winman’s Still Life covers interconnected lives in the middle of the 20th century – but speech marks are absent making conversations hard to follow at times
Book Review, Still Life by Sarah Winman: A novel that spans the decades from Wartime Italy to Post War London and…
Rapscallion Magazine Diary: despite calling for a boycott of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar I’ll be watching the games on TV like a first class hypocrite
A Rapscallion’s Diary: October 2022I am a hypocrite. I nod in agreement with Greta Thunberg about global warming but drive…
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Rapscallion Magazine Diary: the snobs I cannot stand listed – written by a snob
A Rapscallion’s Diary: November 2022There is a certain type of person who I cannot stand: the snob. The type of…