“I was tired of hearing that the West Indians were oppressed, that we were black and miserable, that we had… READ MORE
Various sites around Southwark’s Borough High Street had served as County Gaol for Surrey over the centuries; jostling with a… READ MORE
The League was a British civil-rights organisation, founded in 1931 to work for racial equality around the world, though in practice its primary focus was… READ MORE
Racism and White Supremacism are currently fashionable again, after a few decades when even rightwing politicians felt it politically unacceptable… READ MORE
Although in the run-up to the outbreak of World War 1, trade unions and Labour movement figures had produced a… READ MORE
“Yesterday morning, about five minutes before 8 o’clock, Ensign Hepburn, and —— White, the drummer, a lad, only 16 years… READ MORE
The Corn Laws had their origin in the ‘total war’ waged between Britain (and numerous allies) and revolutionary/Napoleonic France between… READ MORE
As previously recounted on this blog, theatres were a leading arena for riots during the seventeenth century. 1737 saw significant… READ MORE
The Habeas Corpus Act passed by Parliament in 1679 guaranteed that a person detained by the authorities would have 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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