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26 Aug 2020
Today in London’s radical history, 1848: Armed Chartists arrested as they prepare for revolutionoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2020
Today in London theatrical history, 1805: tailors offended at anti-tailor play riot, Haymarket Theatreoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2020
Today in London’s royal history, 1821: ‘Queen’ Caroline’s funeral procession ends in two deathsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2020
Today in London’s penal herstory, 1784: Sarah Scott killed during Clerkenwell Bridewell ‘riot’.original ↗
1 Aug 2020
Today in London anti-fascist history, 1985: Anti Fascist Action founded, ‘to fight fascism physically & politically’original ↗
28 Jul 2020
Today in London’s striking herstory, 1890: Sweet Victory! East End chocolate factory workers win strikeoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2020
Today in London striking history, 1966: A series of guerilla strikes begin at the ENV Engineering Works, Willesdenoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2020
Today in London guerilla gardening history, 1906: unemployed occupy empty land in Plaistoworiginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
Today in London festive history, 1996: Reclaim the Streets Re-Wild the M41 motorway, Shepherds Bushoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
3 Jul 2020
Today in London’s anti-racist history, 1981: Southall youth burn down the Hamborough pub after racist skinhead provovationsoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2020
29 Jun 2020
Today in London’s sporting history, 1837: protestors invade the Kensington Hippodrome to re-open a blocked footpathoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2020
13 Jun 2020
Today in London’s fashion history; 1719: silkweavers begin ‘calico riots’ against imported clothesoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2020
Today in London’s apocalyptic history, 1795: the day London was to be destroyed, according to prophet Richard Brothersoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
Today in London radical history, 1381: Essex and Kent rebels hold conference at Barking as Peasants’ Revolt gathers paceoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2020
Today in London’s radical history, 1848: Chartist rallies in Clerkenwell leads to fighting with policeoriginal ↗
29 May 2020
Today in London’s radical history, 1912: Great East/West End tailors strike 1912 ends in victoryoriginal ↗
25 May 2020
Today in London’s educational history, 1972: a Schools Action Union strike and demonstrationoriginal ↗
17 May 2020
Today in London underground history, 2011: an incursion into the sewers under Buckingham Palace… terror? Love?original ↗
16 May 2020
10 May 2020
All this week in London radical history, 1926: fighting in Southwark during the General Strikeoriginal ↗
5 May 2020
Today in London radical history, 1771: an informer who sent insurgent silkweavers to the gallows killed in community punishment, Bethnal Greenoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2020
3 Apr 2020
Resisting enclosure past & present: East London Waterworks, Leyton Marsh, and the Leyton Lammas landsoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2020