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Today in London’s past: Riots defeat the Excise Bill & Londoners party all night, 1733.
“The army, it was said, could not be relied on because the soldiers believed that tobacco would be raised in… READ MORE
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Today in London’s publishing history: Police and customs raid Gays the Word bookshop, 1984.
Gay’s the Word, London’s first gay bookshop, opened in Bloomsbury’s Marchmont Street, in January 1979. Inspired by lesbian and gay… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: Troops fire on crowd protesting arrest of Radical MP Francis Burdett, 1810
Francis Burdett was not an obvious candidate for radicalism… The son of a Baronet, educated at Westminster School from 1786… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: imprisoned debtors attempt mass escape, Newgate, 1778.
“On Monday night, about two o’clock, the debtors in one part of the old jail of Newgate which remains on… READ MORE
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