John Cartwright, the third son of William Cartwright and Anne Cartwright, was born on 28th September 1740, at Marnham, Nottingham. His… READ MORE
St. Pancras and the Rents In 1960 council tenants in the borough of St Pancras went on partial rent strike,… READ MORE
Southwark Fair was for several centuries one of London’s largest and most important annual fairs. Established in the early middle… READ MORE
In the early days of World War 2, after the German Luftwaffe’s attack on Britain’s air defences failed, the planes… READ MORE
“Charles More , of St. Martins in the Fields , was Indicted for Feloniously Stealing Divers Books to a Considerable Value… READ MORE
“Among the many crazy sectaries produced from the yeasty froth of the fermenting caldron of the great civil war, there… READ MORE
An account of a naked protest in Selfridges store, Central London, 2003. “Steve Gough has been walking naked from land’s… READ MORE
Anti-semitism and widespread persecution of Jewish communities is almost as old as Christianity. While the twentieth century witnessed its most… READ MORE
For centuries, from the early 1600s to the 1860s, England transported hundreds of thousands of convicts, political prisoners as well… READ MORE
“Whereas John Shepheard broke out of the Condemn’d Hold of Newgate (with his Irons on) by cutting off one of… 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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