For four years, from 1914 to 1918,working class men and women made enormous sacrifices in World War One. During this… READ MORE
On 14th April the Union of Democratic Control (UDC) summoned a National Conference of Women to discuss the basis of… READ MORE
The 2012 Olympics in London generated much hype and large profits. Huge areas of East London were redeveloped; in a… READ MORE
“The army, it was said, could not be relied on because the soldiers believed that tobacco would be raised in… READ MORE
Gay’s the Word, London’s first gay bookshop, opened in Bloomsbury’s Marchmont Street, in January 1979. Inspired by lesbian and gay… READ MORE
Francis Burdett was not an obvious candidate for radicalism… The son of a Baronet, educated at Westminster School from 1786… READ MORE
“On Monday night, about two o’clock, the debtors in one part of the old jail of Newgate which remains on… READ MORE
For many centuries, until the 1800s, in times of high food prices and thus widespread hunger, popular discontent could often… 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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