During the early 1950s anti-fascism ceased to be the major activity for the left as it had been throughout the… READ MORE
George William Foote was born in Plymouth, England on 11 January 1850. In his youth he became a freethinker through reading… READ MORE
On this date in 1864, four Philippines Spaniards and a Greek Ottoman who once numbered among the crew of the… READ MORE
On February 21st 1994, the House of Commons voted to reduce the gay male age of consent from 21 to… READ MORE
On 18th February, 1977: three men were arrested, John Nicholas Crispin Aubrey, John Ashley Berry and Duncan Campbell. Berry was… READ MORE
In 1830, the radical journalist William Cobbett was accused of inspiring and inciting the huge surge of rural rebellion, agitation… READ MORE
Topical, topical… In all the self-congratulation of politicians around the 100 years since (some) women got the vote, there is… READ MORE
In 1399, the first time that William Sawtrey was arrested on charges of heresy, he went to prison until he… READ MORE
The main impetus for the 1968-69 squatting campaign, which kick-started the late twentieth century London squatting movement, came from a… READ MORE
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
~ Rogers Hornsby
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