Axbridge News: from torturing 17th century Catholics to ancient fire festivals – the history of Somerset carnivals is diverse – as Axbridge gears up for this year’s carnival on September 21
By Harry Mottram: It might be me but I don’t think we should celebrate the torture and execution of 17th…
Axbridge News: a groovy modern pop festival take on Shakespeare’s celebrated comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set to be staged in the Town Hall
By Harry Mottram: Written in around 1595 in a very different England, A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of William…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: in part four and the final account of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – a meeting with my best man, views over Cumbria on Shap Fell, soaked in Preston, dialling 999 and a life-saving heart operation in Carlisle
The story so far: I had completed the section from Land’s End to my home in Axbridge in three days…
Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: the Minack Theatre was the perfect setting for a production of The French Lieutenant’s Woman but at times the wind and rain were the main characters
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Minack Theatre Hugh Grant, Jude Law, Arnold Schwarzenegger and even a few of my friends –…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: part three of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – the lost roads of England with Ashley, a wet wedding and the signs on a toilet cubicle door which suggests cottaging hasn’t died out in Exeter
The story so far: I arrived in Cornwall and camped near Land’s End and set off on a sunny morning…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: part two of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – robbed on the train to Penzance, death of an actor, and a deserted Land’s End
The story so far: following my recovery from a near fatal road accident I’ve been given the all clear by…
Axbridge News: it’s Queen Cora as Axbridge Carnival Royalty are revealed for the Saturday, 21st September procession maintaining a long tradition
By Harry Mottram: The Axbridge Carnival Queen and her princesses have been announced to ensure the family community event in…
Axbridge News: Part 4 of Dr Laura Carter’s history of Kings of Wessex as comprehensive education arrives and the school enters a new era in the 1980s
By Harry Mottram: This is the final part of former student of Kings of Wessex Dr Laura Carter’s short history…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: The French Lieutenant’s Woman – sexual frustration, class injustice and misogyny in 19th century Lyme Regis in John Fowles’ novel and Pinter’s film script
By Harry Mottram: Frankly Charles is a bit of an idiot. He’s sexually frustrated and isn’t in love with his…
Rapscallion Magazine Feature: part one of Harry’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats – how a pint of beer and a chat with a school friend started the idea
By Harry Mottram. One moment I was cycling along on a sunny Saturday lunchtime and the next I was in…