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On 16th April 1771, Daniel Clarke, a pattern drawer in the silk weaving trade, was chased by a crowd through… READ MORE
Britain’s central role in the global slave trade is well known. For over 300 years, the abduction of millions of… READ MORE
Effigy burning – although best known now for Guy Fawkes night, twas once one of the most prevalent political symbolic… READ MORE
Various sites around Southwark’s Borough High Street had served as County Gaol for Surrey over the centuries; jostling with a… READ MORE
“About eleven o’clock while the piquet-guard was off duty, a terrible mutiny happened among the transports and recruits confined in… READ MORE
• This was mistakenly entered in the hard copy of the calendar as the 15th February… one day out. Oops.• … READ MORE
In the eighteenth century, Britain’s territorial and commercial empire was expanding in every direction across the globe; this exponential scramble… READ MORE
For 100s of years Newgate Prison was the most potent symbol and reality of state repression in London, the ultimate… READ MORE
In September 1773, the actor and impresario David Garrick got into a dispute with the Westminster magistrate John Fielding, over… READ MORE
In 1777 John Horne Tooke was sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment for raising a fund to support the American rebels.… READ MORE
"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
A passionate baseball fan blog celebrating America's favorite pastime.
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