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August 12th 1839 was the date marked for the launch Chartist Grand National Holiday – effectively a General Strike to overthrow… READ MORE
On 10 August 2005, 700 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked for resisting crap conditions at work at Heathrow Airport. The workers… READ MORE
The wicked and subversive playwright, Joe Orton, was murdered on August 9th 1967 in their Islington flat by his jealous and… READ MORE
For centuries Silk Weaving was the dominant industry in Spitalfields and neighbouring areas like Bishopsgate, Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, spreading… READ MORE
This should have been published on August 5th… bit late due to one issue and another. We thought we’d put… READ MORE
Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP) was founded as a union for cons in May 1972, during a wave… READ MORE
After his unfortunately unsuccessful attempt to shoot king George III failed to kickstart a wondrous Millennium, (see our earlier post)… READ MORE
In 1886 a new workhouse was built to imprison the poor of the Wandsworth & Clapham Poor Law Union, in… READ MORE
For centuries one of the hardest jobs on the London docks was coalheaving: unloading coal from ships to warehouses from… READ MORE
NB: There is a dispute about the historical accuracy of the statement ‘Queen Elizabeth did this’… Was it done in… 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
A passionate baseball fan blog celebrating America's favorite pastime.
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