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As noted before on this blog, in the 18th century, the Royal Navy coped with a high wastage rate among… READ MORE
On 2nd July 1798, officers of the West India Merchants and Planters Marine Police Institute, the UK’s earliest organised police… READ MORE
The 1986-7 Wapping Dispute claimed many jobs – and Michael Delaney’s life. Traditionally newspaper printers on Fleet Street newspapers were… READ MORE
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, was a judge, notorious for “acting as an instrument of royal policy”. Rapidly ascending through… READ MORE
For centuries one of the hardest jobs on the London docks was coalheaving: unloading coal from ships to warehouses from… READ MORE
For centuries London’s economy was dependent on the burning of coal. But being as not that much coal was hewn… READ MORE
9th February 1987 saw the last of the weekly demonstrations through Wapping, East London, that were held every Saturday night,… 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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