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Today and tomorrow, in London’s shopping history: bread riots in Whitechapel, 1861
The winter of 1860-61 was grim: freezing weather and lack of work, leading to mass poverty among working people in… READ MORE
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Today in London history, 1987: Michael Delaney killed by scab TNT truck, Wapping.
The 1986-7 Wapping Dispute claimed many jobs – and Michael Delaney’s life. Traditionally newspaper printers on Fleet Street newspapers were… READ MORE
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Today in London’s anarchist history, 1993: Leah Feldman, veteran of the Russian Revolution, cremated
A Rebel Spirit (obituary of Leah Feldman) Albert Meltzer Leah (Leila) Feldman, who was cremated at East London in the… READ MORE
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Today in London Black history, 1787: anti-slave abolitionists, the Sons of Africa, write to Granville Sharp
Britain’s central role in the global slave trade is well known. For over 300 years, the abduction of millions of… READ MORE
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