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1
Ford-Visteon
workers occupy
factory, Enfield,
2009. |
2
1844: old Fleet
Prison finally closes. |
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Gibbets on
Edgware Road cut down
‘by unknown persons’, 1763. |
4
Richard O’Brien
dies in police custody,
Walworth, 1994. |
5
1771: A crowd
hold mock
executions
of effigies of hated figures, (including
hangman),
Tower Hill. |
6
William Longbeard,
‘champion of the poor’, & some others hanged after uprising in London, 1196. |
7
Uproar in
London pubs as planned
beer price rise
hits –
caused by war privation. 1917. |
8
Public meeting
at Holborn Town Hall demands amendment of Lunacy laws. 1882. |
9
Conscripts in Savoy
prison bound for service in East India Company, riot;
all shot dead. 1763. |
| 10
‘Wyllyam Jefferey,
an heretyke, whyppyd at a carts arsse from the
Marshallse in Sothewarke
to Bethelem’, 1561.
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11
Italian nationalist
leader Garibaldi
visits London, to mass
acclaim of radicals, 1864. |
12
1886 : Trial of socialists Hyndman, Burns and
Williams for incitement to riot ends in their acquittal. |
13
400 rioters
destroy
enclosure
fences,
Wandsworth
Common, 1870. |
14
Master of the Revels orders all mountebanks, rope dancers & balladsingers be licenced or banned, 1684. |
15
Coalheavers riot in river strike, Wapping, 1768. |
16
Wominspace
squatted
social centre
resists
eviction, Hackney, 2008. |
| 17
20,000 in final rally
for annual Aldermaston
March, Trafalgar
Square, London, 1968. |
18
Anti-fascists
oppose anti-semitic nazi march, Clapton, 2015. |
19
Act passed punishing
publishers of unstamped
newspapers, 1743. |
20
Spiral Tribe rave
attacked by police,
Acton, 100s injured. 1992 |
21
Clerkenwell Churchyard 1732: Prisoner Brown chucks screw
escorting him into a fresh grave, & escapes. |
22
1760: man on world’s
first roller-skates & playing the violin crashes into a mirror at a London party. |
23
Lewisham Bridge school
occupied against destruction & academisation,
2009. |
| 24
1892: Anarchists
hold mass meeting to
protest police raids on
London anarchist papers. |
25
1000s in anti-gentrification protest, Brixton: Town Hall, copshop and estate agents attacked, 2015. |
26
Launch of ill-
fated leftwing tabloid,
News On Sunday, 1987. It
collapses six months later. |
27
1987: 300 Bengalis
who had been evicted by Tower Hamlets council invade council chamber. |
28
1721: Order in
Council denounces
scandalous societies which met to ridicule religion. |
29
1909: at mass reception, released Suffragette
prisoners presented with the ‘Holloway brooch’. |
30
10,000 hold
mass victory demo,
Stepney, after winning
mass rent strikes, 1938. |
LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES 