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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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Today in London’s sporting history: 1000s invade pitch at FA Cup final, Wembley, 1923.
April 28, 1923: West Ham and Bolton contested the first FA Cup Final to be played at Wembley Stadium. The… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: Spitalfields silkweavers win laws to protect their wages, 1773.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the silkweavers of London’s East End were well known for organizing collectively to defend… READ MORE
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Today in London’ rebel history: Striking Coalheavers battle scabs on ships, Wapping, 1768.
For centuries London’s economy was dependent on the burning of coal. But being as not that much coal was hewn… READ MORE
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Today in London’s military history: radical Mutiny in Whalley’s regiment, Bishopsgate, 1649
The class tensions thrown up on the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War came to a head in 1649.… READ MORE
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