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Today in London sporting history: riot in Kingston as magistrates try to repress trad feb Shrove Tuesday football match, 1799
Until the 19th century, football in Britain was played by huge numbers of people on vast ‘pitches’ with very few… READ MORE
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Today in London religious history: John Rogers burned at Smithfield for heresy, 1555.
John Rogers was accused of being a seditious preacher and the Privy Council ordered his arrest. Rogers stayed a prisoner in… READ MORE
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Today in London rebel history: John Rety, poet, anarchist, publisher, chessplayer, dies, 2010
On February 3rd 2010, anarchist, poet and publisher John Rety died, aged 79. Born Reti Janos to a Jewish family… READ MORE
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Today in London rebel history: Nicholas Jakes leads protest in London, 1450.
King Henry VI, nominally ruler of England between 1422 and 1461. was throughout his whole reign successively a child, then… READ MORE
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Today in pamphleteering history: William Benbow’s Grand National Holiday and Congress of the Productive Classes published, 1832
William Benbow was a radical pamphleteer, publisher, propagandist and bookseller, who in the 1830s ran a radical bookshop at 205… READ MORE
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"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
~ Rogers Hornsby
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