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Today in London’s festive history: Twelfth Day. Let Them Eat Cake!
“If a satirical prophecy in “Vox Graculi,” 4to. 1623, may be relied on as authority, it bears testimony to the… READ MORE
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Today in London’s media history: exiled German socialist/anarchist paper Freiheit begins publishing, 1879.
The German-language socialist (later anarchist) paper Freiheit (meaning Freedom) was first published from London, though mainly aimed at distribution in Germany,… READ MORE
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Today in London’s history: Nazi Lord Haw-Haw hanged, Wandsworth Prison, 1946.
William Joyce, later famous for broadcasting pro-Nazi propaganda from Germany during World War 2, was born in New York City… READ MORE
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Today in radical history: a New-yeeres Gift from Gerrard Winstanley, 1650.
The English civil war of the 1640s opened up space in British society for radical new political, social, religious and… READ MORE
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Today in London’s religious history: Salvation Army pelted with mud & rotten fruit by Skeleton Army, Whitechapel, 1881.
Sick of religious fundamentalism leading to murder, rape and war? Feel rage at god-botherers preying on the poor and vulnerable?… READ MORE
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