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Today in London’s musical history: the ‘March of the Women’ premieres, Albert Hall, 1911.
“The March of the Women” was a song composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton. It… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: Peckham anarchist rally attacked by scabs and police, 1894.
In the early 1890s, Peckham, South London, had an active anarchist group, part of quite a boisterous and prominent anarchist… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: Mental Patients Union founded to oppose psychiatric oppression, 1973.
The Mental Patients Union (MPU), in the early 1970s, could probably be seen as the first service user involvement movement.… READ MORE
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In London’s radical history: Marx on The Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain, 1858
OK, not sure how we got this down as happening on March 20th; twas August. Our proofreaders have been sent… READ MORE
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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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