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This week in London radical history: Women blockade Parliament, 1642, protesting against war, recession and poverty.
The English civil war of the 1640s exposed and encouraged an explosion of radial and pioneering political and social thought.… READ MORE
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Today in London welfare history: Camberwell unemployed protest end of milk ration for babies, 1922.
South London’s former Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell had a long tradition of unemployed organising: during the high unemployment of 1905,… READ MORE
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Today in London’s housing history: 150 squatters evicted, Hornsey Rise, 1976.
Around 1974, hundreds of squatters moved into empty flats in Welby House, Goldie House, and Ritchie House on the Hornsey… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: radical prisoners hold party in Newgate prison, 1826
A tax was first imposed on British newspapers in 1712. The tax was gradually increased until in 1815 it had… READ MORE
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Today in London radical history: William Stone tried for treason, 1796.
During the French Revolution, when paranoia gripped the British government that something similar could erupt here, those radicals identified as… READ MORE
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