On February 3rd 2010, anarchist, poet and publisher John Rety died, aged 79. Born Reti Janos to a Jewish family… READ MORE
King Henry VI, nominally ruler of England between 1422 and 1461. was throughout his whole reign successively a child, then… READ MORE
William Benbow was a radical pamphleteer, publisher, propagandist and bookseller, who in the 1830s ran a radical bookshop at 205… READ MORE
In January 1969 the London School of Economics was occupied by its students in protest at the appointment of Walter… READ MORE
The National Unemployed Workers Movement emerged as a powerful organisation of the unwaged working class in Britain during the post-World… READ MORE
Lodowick Muggleton was a self-proclaimed prophet, who emerged from the swirling pool of sects, preachers and cults that characterised mid-17th… READ MORE
Elsy Borders changed the course of legal and political history in the field of owner-occupied housing mortgages. The campaigns around… READ MORE
On January 10th, 1831, Richard Carlile was sentenced to 32 months imprisonment for sedition; specifically for advising agricultural labourers to… READ MORE
On May 10th 1768, Dingley’s Steam-powered Sawmill in Limehouse was burnt down by 500 sawyers, who claimed it was putting… 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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