Edward Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), was a romantic writer, editor, critic and comrade/contemporary of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, and an innovative… READ MORE
Steampunk rebels eat your heart out… If you thought the scene in the old Ealing Comedy film Kind Hearts and… READ MORE
On 9 February 1907, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies held the first large-scale women’s procession through London, from Hyde… READ MORE
“Howl, howl, ye nobles, howl honourable, howl ye rich men for the miseries that are coming upon you. For our… READ MORE
Snapshots in London’s anti-fascist history, continued… After the second world war, Britain’s pre-war fascist leader Oswald Mosley, freed from wartime… READ MORE
On 29th January 1817, the first issue of the radical Black Dwarf paper was published. “Prospectus for the Black Dwarf… READ MORE
The winter of 1860-61 was grim: freezing weather and lack of work, leading to mass poverty among working people in… READ MORE
The 1986-7 Wapping Dispute claimed many jobs – and Michael Delaney’s life. Traditionally newspaper printers on Fleet Street newspapers were… READ MORE
A Rebel Spirit (obituary of Leah Feldman) Albert Meltzer Leah (Leila) Feldman, who was cremated at East London in the… 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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