LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES

Month: February 2018

Feb 28

Today in London anti-fascist history: nazis attack anti-apartheid rally, Trafalgar Square, 1960.
Feb 26

Today in London secular history: GW Foote, WJ Ramsay and Henry Kempe tried for blasphemy, 1883.
Feb 22

Today in London judicial history, 1864: five mutineers from the ship Flowery Land publicly hanged, outside Newgate Prison.
Feb 21

Today in queer outstory, 1994: Gay male age of consent vote cop-out sparks mini-riot at Parliament.
Feb 20

This week in London secret history, 1977: Aubrey, Berry and Campbell arrested under Official Secrets Act, sparking ABC trial.
Feb 18

Yesterday in radical history: William Cobbett indicted for seditious libel, 1830, for supporting Swing Rioters
Feb 14

Today in London socialist history: Jim Connell, writer of The Red Flag, buried, Golders Green, 1929
Feb 13

Today in London suffrage history, 1907: the Women’s Parliament ends in scuffles at Parliament.
Feb 12

Today in London’s religious history: Lollard William Sawtrey questioned for heresy at St Pauls, 1401
Feb 9

Today in London housing history: Family Squatting Campaign occupies 4 houses in Ilford, 1969

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