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Today in London’s immoral history: ‘Holland’s Leaguer’, notorious Bankside brothel, resists siege by constables, 1632.
Holland’s Leaguer was a notorious 17th-century brothel which stood, near London’s playhouses, on the south bank of the River Thames.… READ MORE
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Today in history: public launch of the Commons Preservation Society, 1866.
Yesterday we recounted here how the 1235 Statute of Merton established a legal basis for the enclosure of common land… READ MORE
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Today in legal history: Statute of Merton passed, 1235, giving landowners power to enclose common land
“IT was provided in the Court of our Lord the King, holden at Merton on Wednesday the morrow after the… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history, 1901: Italian restaurant workers union hold first meeting
Ironically as it may seem in these times, in the nineteenth century, Britain was a popular and open destination for… READ MORE
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Today in London’s blasphemous history: Peter Annet, freethinker, dies, 1769.
“PETER ANNET, a deist, upwards of seventy years of age, was indicted in the Court of King’s Bench, at Westminster,… READ MORE
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