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Today in London anti-fascist history: nazis attack anti-apartheid rally, Trafalgar Square, 1960.
During the early 1950s anti-fascism ceased to be the major activity for the left as it had been throughout the… READ MORE
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Today in London secular history: GW Foote, WJ Ramsay and Henry Kempe tried for blasphemy, 1883.
George William Foote was born in Plymouth, England on 11 January 1850. In his youth he became a freethinker through reading… READ MORE
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Today in London judicial history, 1864: five mutineers from the ship Flowery Land publicly hanged, outside Newgate Prison.
On this date in 1864, four Philippines Spaniards and a Greek Ottoman who once numbered among the crew of the… READ MORE
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Today in queer outstory, 1994: Gay male age of consent vote cop-out sparks mini-riot at Parliament.
On February 21st 1994, the House of Commons voted to reduce the gay male age of consent from 21 to… READ MORE
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