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Today in anti-monarchist history: Bermondsey Council refuse to waste public money on king George V jubilee, 1935.
In the 1920s and ’30s, the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, in South London, was controlled by a leftwing Labour party… READ MORE
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Today in publishing history: the Daily Mail first vomits its bile into the world, 1896.
The Daily Mail first vomits its bile into the world, 1896. We really couldn’t do better than to repost this,… READ MORE
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Today in radical history: as the Chartist Convention ends, 1842, the second great petition is carried to Parliament.
The Chartist movement collected three great petitions for reform of the voting system, to be handed into Parliament. The second… READ MORE
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Today in London’s reactionary history: Mayday revels turn end in a pogrom against foreign workers, 1517
May Day has a long history. Although since 1889 it has been celebrated as International Workers Day, celebration on the… READ MORE
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Today in London’s rebel history: John Guy hanged for poaching, under the draconian Black Act, 1725.
Denied the right to hunt game in the forests of the rich; driven from enclosed land to the margins and… READ MORE
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