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Today in London’s legal history: Tottenham 3 wrongly convicted of PC Blakelock’s murder, 1987.
19th March 1987: Winston Silcott, Engin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite convicted of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the… READ MORE
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Today in London’s religious history: Bartholomew Legate burnt for heresy, 1612.
Bartholomew Legate or Legatt, dealer in cloth, and his two brothers, Walter and Thomas, from Essex, were active in and… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: riots break out as the Duke of Suffolk is banished, 1450.
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, was the effective head of the English government in the late 1440s. The… READ MORE
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Today in London’s history: Ibrahima Sey unlawfully killed by Ilford police, 1996
Ibrahima Sey, a Gambian asylum seeker, died in the early hours of Saturday 16th March 1996, after having been taken… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: Reclaim Bedlam oppose Compulsory Treatment Orders, 1999
In the 1990s, a wave of panic against the mentally ill was sparked by a very small number of highly… READ MORE
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