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Today in London’s radical history: Bethnal Green Chartists in court, for assembling, illegally, armed, 1840.
In 1839-40, the Chartist movement reached its first great peak of strength. Building on decades of agitation for constitutional and… READ MORE
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Today in London radical history: Nicholas Tew interrogated over the printing of Leveller tracts, 1645.
On 15 January 1645, Nicholas Tew, a stationer of Coleman Street in the City of London, was questioned by a… READ MORE
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Today in London’s criminal history: rowdy innkeeper Mary Harvey escapes the Kings Bench prison, 1731.
Mary Harvey was an innkeeper, a notorious owner of disorderly houses in the 1720s and 1730s. She worked in the… READ MORE
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Yesterday and today, in London’s rebel history: Lollards heretic uprising defeated in St Giles Fields, 1414.
The Lollards were religious reformers, heretics against the Catholic Church of the 15th century, proto-protestants, in some ways. Lollardy initially… READ MORE
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Today in London’s transport history: 100s of drivers in road haulage strike, 1947.
As previously noted in this blog, the (often trumpeted by the left) landslide Labour government of 1945-51 took power claiming… READ MORE
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