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Today in London housing history: Family Squatting Campaign occupies 4 houses in Ilford, 1969
The main impetus for the 1968-69 squatting campaign, which kick-started the late twentieth century London squatting movement, came from a… READ MORE
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Today in London art history: John Ruskin born, Bloomsbury, 1819.
”Trade Unions of England – Trade Armies of Christendom, what’s the roll-call of you, and what part or lot have… READ MORE
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Today in gardening history: suffragette attack on Kew Gardens orchid houses, 1913.
So; 100 years since some women got the vote (yesterday). Funny how NOW lots of politicians and journalists are falling… READ MORE
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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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"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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