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Today in London’s anti-war history, 1900: meeting against Boer War attacked by police.
For socialists the Boer War of 1899-1902 was a prefiguration of their experiences in the First World War, and in… READ MORE
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Yesterday in publishing history: scandalous and seditious pamphlets banned, 1643.
“Oh printing! How has thou disturb’d the Peace of Mankind!” (Andrew Marvell) The spread of printing, the beginnings of regular… READ MORE
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Today in London radical history: more disturbances in Trafalgar Square, after riot the day before, 1848
Trafalgar Square was built in the 1830s, after the previous mass of royal mews, stables and other buildings, which had… READ MORE
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Today in anti-war history, 1917: spycops’ fit-up! Alice Wheeldon & her daughters go on trial for ‘plot to murder’ Prime Minister Lloyd George.
“Alice Wheeldon and her family were commie scum Denounced World War 1, sheltered deserters on the run Fitted up by… READ MORE
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Yesterday in suffrage/anti-war history, 1915: the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies splits over support for WW1.
This should have gone out yesterday… but we were partying with Lady Stardust… By the 1890s there were seventeen individual… READ MORE
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