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1
Police radio reports
North Peckham Estate rioters throwing ‘concrete rain’ on officers, 1985.
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2
Demo, Trafalgar Square, against Housing Finance Act which promised social
housing rent rises, 1972.
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3
Empty GLC
block ,
Kilner House squatted, Kennington, 1980.
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4
Battle in Charing
Cross, as police attack
unemployed march, 1921
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5
More fighting
between catholics and
pro-Garibaldi radicals,
Hyde Park, 1862.
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6
Anarchist
novelist Ethel Mannin
born, Clapham, 2006.
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7
Black Power activists
disrupt Tony Benn
speaking at N. Kensington Labour Party meeting, 1968
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Harold Moody,
founder of pioneering
League of Coloured
Peoples, born, 1882.
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9
Old Bailey trial
of Oval 4 begins,
1972 – black radicals
framed by police.
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10
Mass escape
attempt foiled,
Newgate Prison, 1771.
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11
Lambeth & Kennington schoolboys meet
to plan school strike,
Embankment, 1911.
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12
Sylvia Pankhurst
nicked again after pro-women’s suffrage speech at Poplar Town Hall, 1913.
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13
Troops attack
pickets in air traffic
controllers strike,
West Drayton, 1977.
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14
European Social Forum held in London, 2004
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15
Occupy Camp
takes over grounds of St Pauls Cathedral, 2011.
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16
Laboratory
of Insurrectionary
Imagination pray to
Gods of Consumerism
& Consumption,
Selfridges, 2004.
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Brewery vat bursts,
St Giles – poor bring cups
& drink free porter as it flows in the street, 1814. |
18
Brewery vat bursts,
St Giles – poor
bring cups
& drink free porter
as it flows in the street, 1814. |
19
Police beat unemployed & socialists out of
Trafalgar Square,1887; events move towards Bloody Sunday… |
20
John de Morgan goes on trial for inspiring Plumstead Common enclosure riots, 1876. |
21
‘Anarchy in the UK’
festival starts, 1994.
Ten Days that
Shook, well, London. |
22
Crowd invades St Pauls
to destroy records of
religious orthodoxy, 1640. |
23
8 journeymen
cordwainers take
masters to court, for
reducing wages, 1303. |
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24
Wildcat engineers
strike starts, Charing
Cross Hospital, 1979.
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25
Royal Flush: king George II dies on the toilet, Kensington Palace, 1760.
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26
Pacifist
Housmans Bookshop
founded, 1945.
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27
Radical Land &
Labour League
founding conference, near Old Bailey, 1869
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28
1000 cyclists defy planned ban on Critical Mass, West End, 2005.
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29
Squat rave at Oxford St mail depot ends in riot as cops try to evict it, 2010.
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30
Fire damages Tower of London, 1841.
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31
16 women nicked on Soho Reclaim the Night march, 1978.
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LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES 