The weekly Ambridge Socialist tends to focus on key news from the class struggle in Borsetshire and doesn’t always cover the minutiae of village life.
A couple of footnotes therefore:
Marking a potential new partnership to run Home Farm with Adam and Ruari, all concerned retire to The Bull for a drink and a meal. Brian of course orders gammon and equally of course this weeks reporter of Ambridge stories is Keri Davies
On a rather more profound point the historian Christopher Clark (i.e Regius Prof of History at Cambridge) has given an interview to Prospect magazine about his new micro-history A Scandal in Konigsberg 1835-1842. Clark explores a sex scandal he has found in archived papers. However as he points out the book is really about people and relations between people in a specific place at a specific time. In short not so different from the Archers
it is not entirely removed from The Archers, even if it concerns a religious scandal in 1830s Prussia. As Clark puts it himself, while sipping at a gin & lime & soda that was the result of an ordering mix-up, “It seems to me that a city like Königsberg can be very, very complex. Just as the life of Ambridge is actually quite complex.”
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