LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES

They’re opening your post… time to dig out that
donkey mask disguise…

1889 : More than
300,000 London
workers are on strike,
inspired by dockers…

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The ‘Secret apparatus
for tampering with,
copying & forging letters in the interests of the State’ burned in Great Fire, 1666.

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Newgate & Ludgate Prisoners being moved during Great Fire take chance to escape, 1666.

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Suffragette attempt
to burn posh Dulwich College fails, 1913.
Time for another go?

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Planned radical
uprising postponed, despite
‘200 armed revolutionary
soldiers’ gathering
near Tower, 1802.

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Social centre in squatted dentist factory evicted, Southwark, 2001.

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Crowd force entry
to Liverpool Street
Station to use it as air raid shelter, 1940.

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150,000 oppose
British Union of fascists
rally, Hyde Park, 1934.

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Ivanhoe Hotel,
Bloomsbury,
squatted, 1946.

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Space Hijackers
drive tank to DSEI
arms fair protest, then
auction it off, 2007.

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1726: Jane Martin hanged,
Tyburn, for returning
before her full sentence
of transportation was up.

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1993: anti-roads protestors squat empty houses along M11 Link route,
Leytonstone/Wanstead.

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Winston Churchill
statue straitjacketed to protest stigma on
mental illness, 2004.

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1773: justices ask
Garrick not to perform the
Beggar’s Opera, as performances of it often cause
disorder; he refuses.

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Silkweavers gather
to cut silk from looms
of dodgy employers,
Hoxton, 1769.

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Far-right British National Party win first council seat, Isle of Dogs, 1993.

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Old Price Riots
against theatre prices begin – featuring rough music and riotous dancing. 1809.

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Jane Housden & William Johnson hanged for shooting brutal screw
Sparling in court,
Old Bailey, 1714

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1737: Nicholas
Amhurst nicked for writing
seditious libels in
the ‘Craftsman’ magazine.

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Protesting crap
repairs, tenants dump
rotten food in Sanctuary
Housing Association
offices, Hackney, 2000.

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1999: Police shoot Harry Stanley dead, Hackney, ‘mistaking’ a wooden table leg for a shotgun.

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Masque of Anarchy,
Shelley’s angry poetic response to Peterloo
massacre, published
– only after his death! 1832.

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300 anti-fascists prevent National Front march on Brick Lane, 1978.

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Situationist
International’s fourth conference opens, at secret East End address, 1960.

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Kids run amok,
Philip Magnus School,
Clerkenwell, after arrests of hippies at gates, 1969.

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‘Mr Wilson’ pilloried (for playing theatre on Sunday), wearing donkey’s head from his Bottom costume. 1631.

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Scapegoat the vulnerable! Robert Hubert hanged,
after falsely confessing to starting Great Fire, 1666.

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Privatise space now! Duke of Bedford closes private road from Bloomsbury to Somers Town, 1798.

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Excise Commissioners offer reward for info on persons regularly threatening their officers, 1737.