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Strikes,
carnivals:
festivals
of the
oppressed!
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1
April Fool!
1000 turn up to open-air Methodist sermon, Bow – but its a hoax. 1739. |
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Fake
Shakespeare play Vortigern & Rowena laughed
off stage, Drury Lane, 1796.
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3
Dora Russell
born, Thornton Heath, 1894:
Pacifist activist
from WW1 to CND. |
4
Locals occupy
Herne Hill Library
after Lambeth
council closes it,
2016. |
5
Colindale: passengers
revolt on Northern Line tube after its re-routed – all refuse to get off. 1937.
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6
1919: Women’s peace protest against British food blockade of Germany.
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7
International
Animal Rights
fest,
Astoria, in
memory
of hunger striker
Barry
Horne. 2002. |
8
Attempt to
close a gin
shop sparks
riot, Seven
Dials,
1735.
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Silkweavers march
to petition king to relieve trade depression, 1763.
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10
Building of
innovative Pentonville Prison begun, 1840.
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11
Joseph Kells
nicked for hissing
Prime minster
Walpole
in Court of
Requests, 1733. |
12
First issue of
liberal lefty mag New
Statesman appears, 1913.
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13
Maggie Thatcher’s death celebrated with a party in Trafalgar Square, 2013.
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14
Elizabeth Russell
buried, Streatham, 1772:
a man who
lived as a
woman for
decades. |
15
Land &
Labour League unemployed demonstration, 1870
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OutRage! ‘Bend
Over for your member’
action: gay
mooning
at Parliament,
1992. |
17
Local
occupation of council blocks protesting sell-off evicted, Hackney, 1981. |
18
Disabled People against the Cuts block Trafalgar Square protesting austerity, 2012. |
19
Master
tailors go to
court to ban journeymen
from organising, 1415.
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20
Cromwell
dissolves Rump Parliament, 1653 – the reign of the saints begins?
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21
Riot at
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, after
footmen denied
entrance block
road. 1749. |
22
Stephen
Lawrence murdered
by racists, Eltham, 1993. |
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Association of Autonomous Astronauts 5-year plan to get
into space ends, 2000. |
24
Strikes postpone
national census, 1921. |
25
Joe Orton &
Ken Halliwell
nicked for
subversive
defacing of library books, 1962. |
26
First Oscar
Wilde trial for gross
indecency
(being gay)
starts, 1895
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27
Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneer feminist, born, Spitalfields, 1759.
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28
Ratstar &
Offmarket squat centres raided
by cops, 2011.
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29
1000s turn mutineer Robert
Lockyer’s funeral into
Leveller mass demo, 1649. |
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Suffragette WSPU
HQ raided, 1913. |
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