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Today in London’s rebel history: 1400 copies of call for Cromwell’s assassination seized, 1657
“There is lately a very vile booke dispersed abroad, called Killinge noe murder. The scope is, to stirre up men to… READ MORE
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Today in London’s rebel history: Jack Sheppard breaks out from Clerkenwell New Prison, 1724.
In his day he became the most famous name in England, and he remained a folk-hero to the poor for… READ MORE
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Today in London radical history: 350 women strike at Trico factory, Brentford, for equal pay with men, 1976
“May 24 was a mild, overcast day with no hint of the heatwave to follow that long, hot summer of… READ MORE
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This week in London’s gender-bending history: Chevalier d’Eon dies, Bloomsbury, 1810.
[NB: This should probably have been published on Sunday 21st, but it just wasn’t ready. So here it is, late.… READ MORE
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Today in nautical history: Rum, sodomy & (on the) lash in Greenwich, 1774.
In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a sailor’s life was not a happy one… Quite apart from the fact… READ MORE
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