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Today in London spycops history, 1796: ‘Popgun’ assassination plot frameup defendants acquitted
“But sure your hair will stand on end when once I do begin, sir, The dreadful story to relate of… READ MORE
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When Hanwell was run by Slaveowners
In our last post we discussed the ongoing and intertwined links of the ownership of landed estates in England, the… READ MORE
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Enclosure, the Slave trade, Wealth: from Cirencester Park to the Charborough Estate
Jamaican-born Black revolutionary Robert Wedderburn, writing in ‘The Axe Laid to the Root’, his series of open agitational letters urging… READ MORE
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Today in London art history, 2001: William Blake vs GlaxoSmithKline
Report of a 2001 action at the Tate Britain Gallery in London, against a William Blake exhibition sponsored by the… READ MORE
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Today in London military history, 1919: ex-soldiers fight police outside Parliament
“There was this afternoon, unfortunately, a somewhat serious situation as between a procession of discharged soldiers and sailors and the… READ MORE
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~ Rogers Hornsby
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