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Today in London’s penal past: guns smuggled into Newgate, inside ‘Smoaking hot pyes’, 1735.
Newgate Prison, for 100s of years the most potent symbol of state repression in London, hated and feared by the… READ MORE
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This week in rebel history: Bermondsey’s women workers launch massive strike wave, 1911
“One stifling August morning, while the [transport workers’] strike was at its height, the women workers in a large confectionery… READ MORE
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Today in London radical history: Richard & Mary Overton’s house raided, both taken to prison, 1646
“You are so busied with the great affaires of the kingdome (as you call it) that you can find no… READ MORE
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Today in London’s publishing history: Levellers take over the Moderate newspaper, 1648.
The groundbreaking political ideas thrown up in the english civil war – including the Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, fifth monarchism, and… READ MORE
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Today in London’s xenophobic past: Anti-Irish riot in Spitalfields, 1736
From the Middle Ages, London’s then ‘Northeast Suburbs’, Spitalfields, Bishopsgate and Shoreditch, were well known for industry, which was able… READ MORE
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