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Sid Rawle, the Glossary

Sidney William Rawle (1 October 1945 – 31 August 2010) was a British campaigner for peace and land rights, free festival organiser, and a former leader of the London squatters movement.^[1]

52 relations: Battle of the Beanfield, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Berry Hill, Gloucestershire, Bridgwater, Cambridgeshire, Clew Bay, Cornwall, Cruise missile, Diggers, Dorinish, Dyslexia, Exton, Somerset, Forest of Dean, Free festival, Gerrard Winstanley, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Festival, Gloucestershire, Green Gathering, Green Party of England and Wales, International Times, Ireland, John Lennon, Land law, Llandeilo, London Street Commune, Love-in, New Age travellers, Peace camp, RAF Molesworth, Ranters, River Severn, Rodley, Gloucestershire, Savernake Forest, Slough, Somerset, Squatting, St Ives, Cornwall, Stonehenge Free Festival, Strike action, The Guardian, Trade union, Ubi Dwyer, UK underground, Urban park, Victoria County History, Wales, West Somerset College, Westbury-on-Severn, ... Expand index (2 more) »
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Battle of the Beanfield

The Battle of the Beanfield took place over several hours on 1 June 1985, when Wiltshire Police prevented The Peace Convoy, a convoy of several hundred New Age travellers, from setting up the 1985 Stonehenge Free Festival in Wiltshire, England.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Berry Hill, Gloucestershire

Berry Hill is a village in Gloucestershire, England, 1.5 miles north of the town of Coleford.

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Bridgwater

Bridgwater is a historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Clew Bay

Clew Bay (Cuan Mó) is a large ocean bay on the Atlantic coast of County Mayo, Ireland.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cruise missile

A cruise missile is an unmanned self-propelled guided vehicle that sustains flight through aerodynamic lift for most of its flight path and whose primary mission is to place an ordnance or special payload on a target.

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Diggers

The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with agrarian socialism.

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Dorinish

Dorinish (Irish: Deoirinis) is an uninhabited island in Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK) that affects either reading or writing.

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Exton, Somerset

Exton is a village and civil parish north-east of Dulverton and south-west of Dunster in Somerset, England.

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Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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Free festival

Free festivals are a combination of music, arts and cultural activities, for which often no admission is charged, but involvement is preferred.

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Gerrard Winstanley

Gerrard Winstanley (baptised 19 October 1609 – 10 September 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England.

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Glastonbury

Glastonbury is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Green Gathering

The Green Gathering, formerly known as the Big Green Gathering is a festival with an environmental and social justice focus, including workshops and talks on permaculture, politics, ecology and crafts, as well as art, live music and spoken word performances.

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Green Party of England and Wales

The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr; Parti Gwer Pow Sows ha Kembra; often known simply as the Green Party or the Greens) is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales.

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International Times

International Times (it or IT) is the name of various underground newspapers, with the original title founded in London in 1966 and running until October 1973.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Land law

Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land.

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Llandeilo

Llandeilo is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, situated at the crossing of the River Towy by the A483 on a 19th-century stone bridge.

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London Street Commune

London Street Commune was a hippy movement formed during the 1960s.

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Love-in

A love-in is a peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of recreational drugs.

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New Age travellers

New Age Travellers (synonymous with and otherwise known as New Travellers) are people located primarily in the United Kingdom generally espousing New Age beliefs with hippie or Bohemian culture of the 1960s. Sid Rawle and New Age travellers are Counterculture and Counterculture festivals activists.

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Peace camp

Peace camps are a form of physical protest camp that is focused on anti-war and anti-nuclear activity.

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RAF Molesworth

Royal Air Force Molesworth or more simply RAF Molesworth is a Royal Air Force station located near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England with a history dating back to 1917.

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Ranters

The Ranters were one of a number of dissenting groups that emerged about the time of the Commonwealth of England (1649–1660).

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain.

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Rodley, Gloucestershire

Rodley is a settlement in Westbury-on-Severn parish, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England. It lies to the south east of Westbury-on-Severn, surrounded on three sides by a loop of the River Severn. Rodley has a tin church, known as Rodley Mission Church. This is a prefabricated church constructed in 1908 of galvanised metal over a wooden interior.

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Savernake Forest

Savernake Forest stands on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England.

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Slough

Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Squatting

Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.

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St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives (Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Stonehenge Free Festival

The Stonehenge Free Festival was a British free festival from 1974 to 1984 held at the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in England during the month of June, and culminating with the summer solstice on or near 21 June. Sid Rawle and Stonehenge Free Festival are Counterculture.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Ubi Dwyer

Bill 'Ubi' Dwyer or William Ubique Dwyer (21 January 1933 – 13 October 2001) was an anarchist activist in New Zealand, Australia, England and his native Ireland and is best known as the originator and principal organiser of the Windsor Free Festival. Sid Rawle and Ubi Dwyer are 20th-century squatters, Counterculture festivals activists and hippies.

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UK underground

The British counter-culture or underground scene developed during the mid 1960s, and was linked to the hippie subculture of the United States.

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Urban park

An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorporated places that offers green space and places for recreation to residents and visitors.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England, and was dedicated to Queen Victoria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Rawle

Also known as Digger Action Movement, Hyde Park Diggers, Tipi Valley.

, Windsor Free Festival, Winstanley (film).

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Counterculture festivals activists

Hippies

People from Bridgwater

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