On the 13th of March 1918, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies held a victory celebration, at Queens Hall, Great… READ MORE
For socialists the Boer War of 1899-1902 was a prefiguration of their experiences in the First World War, and in… READ MORE
“Oh printing! How has thou disturb’d the Peace of Mankind!” (Andrew Marvell) The spread of printing, the beginnings of regular… READ MORE
Trafalgar Square was built in the 1830s, after the previous mass of royal mews, stables and other buildings, which had… READ MORE
This should have gone out yesterday… but we were partying with Lady Stardust… By the 1890s there were seventeen individual… READ MORE
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
"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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