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Rent Strike Now? Inspiration from the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike
This blog normally concentrates on highlighting and discussing historical events in London. Only because we live here and this is… READ MORE
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Today in London radical history, 1771: an informer who sent insurgent silkweavers to the gallows killed in community punishment, Bethnal Green
On 16th April 1771, Daniel Clarke, a pattern drawer in the silk weaving trade, was chased by a crowd through… READ MORE
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Today in London’s religious history, 1575: twenty Dutch Anabaptists arrested near Aldgate
On 3rd April 1575, twenty Dutch Anabaptists were arrested near Aldgate on the eastern edge of the City of London,… READ MORE
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Resisting enclosure past & present: East London Waterworks, Leyton Marsh, and the Leyton Lammas lands
NB: Update to this post (July 2020): since this was published the application for the controversial Waterworks Festival was refused… READ MORE
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Today in London’s unruly history, 1848: a Chartist riot in Camberwell
In the early 19th Century, with working people being increasingly forced off the land and into urban areas, with the… READ MORE
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