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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
Paddington Day Hospital was an important nexus in the UK radical psychiatric community, a ‘space of convergence’ of various progressive… READ MORE
In the sharp recession following World War 1, hundreds of thousands of working people were thrown into unemployment, including many… READ MORE
“About eleven o’clock while the piquet-guard was off duty, a terrible mutiny happened among the transports and recruits confined in… READ MORE
The Lollards were religious reformers, heretics against the Catholic Church of the 15th century, proto-protestants, in some ways. Lollardy initially… 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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