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Today in London’s anti-racist history: the League of Coloured Peoples formed, 1931.
The League was a British civil-rights organisation, founded in 1931 to work for racial equality around the world, though in practice its primary focus was… READ MORE
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Today in London radical history: entire non-stop picket of S. African embassy arrested, 1989.
Racism and White Supremacism are currently fashionable again, after a few decades when even rightwing politicians felt it politically unacceptable… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: jingoistic mob break up anti-war meeting, Islington, 1917.
Although in the run-up to the outbreak of World War 1, trade unions and Labour movement figures had produced a… READ MORE
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Today in gay history: Thomas White & John Hepburn hanged in Newgate for ‘buggery’, 1811.
“Yesterday morning, about five minutes before 8 o’clock, Ensign Hepburn, and —— White, the drummer, a lad, only 16 years… READ MORE
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Today in London rebel history: riots erupt against the Corn Laws, 1815
The Corn Laws had their origin in the ‘total war’ waged between Britain (and numerous allies) and revolutionary/Napoleonic France between… READ MORE
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