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Today in London industrial history, 1769: The Bold Defiance attack looms of silkweavers working below the agreed rate, Spitalfields.
Pretty much everyone has heard of the Luddites, although many people still have a misconception about the reasons why they… READ MORE
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Today in London squatting history, 1978: mass eviction in Huntley Street, Bloomsbury.
In February 1977 5 blocks of 54 empty police flats, in Huntley Street, behind University College Hospital, which had lain… READ MORE
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Today in London penal history, 1800: protest in Coldbath Fields prison.
“As he went through Coldbath Fields he saw A solitary cell. And the Devil was pleased, for it gave him… READ MORE
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Today in London policing history, 1984: cops raid anarchist 121 Centre, Brixton, looking for guns…
121 Railton Road, Brixton, South London – through the 1980s and 90s one of London’s most active anarchist squatted spaces.… READ MORE
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Today in London’s religious history, 1553: a riot at St Paul’s
The religious divisions of mid-16th century England may not have given birth to outright civil war, as happened in France,… READ MORE
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