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
In 1753, Sir Hans Sloane bequeathed the British Museum’s founding collection to the nation. A physician and naturalist, Sloane had… READ MORE
On 2nd November, 1957, the New Statesman published an article by J. B. Priestley entitled Russia, the Atom and the… READ MORE
Hackney: a demo against racist immigration controls, and for the freedom of movement for migrants, took place on April 2nd,… READ MORE
In April 2009, the G20 group, the leaders of 20 of the most economically powerful nations met in London. On… READ MORE
Joe Jacobs was born in 1913 in the East End of London. He lived and worked in London and was… READ MORE
On 28th March 1980, a queue of mostly black people queueing to see a film outside the Odeon cinema 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
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