26th January 1987: About 117,000 British telephone engineers began a nationwide strike, called by the National Communications Union after British… READ MORE
The silkweavers of London’s East End had a long history of organizing collectively to defend their interests; often using violence… READ MORE
On 20th January 2009, Kings College students occupied a lecture theatre to demand the immediate revocation of then Israeli President… READ MORE
Helen Duncan was one of the last people charged under the 1735 Witchcraft Act, and was sentenced to 9 months… READ MORE
An attempt to vandalise Karl Marx’s grave, 18th January 1970. Possibly not so much ‘anti-German racists’ as people of a… READ MORE
“Now in January 1908 as members of the Cabinet were arriving to discuss the programme for the ensuing session, suffragettes… READ MORE
In September 1985, police shot & crippled Cherry Groce, mother of 6, in a dawn raid while searching for her… READ MORE
“Abiezer Coppe… did away with sin…” (Leon Rosselson) On 14th January 1650, Abiezer Coppe delivered a blasphemous sermon in St… READ MORE
Richard Carlile is jailed – again – for supporting and encouraging Swing Rioters, 10th January 1831. Richard Carlile was a… READ MORE
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~ Rogers Hornsby
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