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blasphemy
and heresy
will keep
you warm
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1
First TV detector
van commissioned,
1952 (so many
were dodging the licence). |
2
First public toilets open, Fleet Street, 1852.
Now an
endangered
species… |
3
Poet, anarchist,
publisher, chessplayer,
John Rety dies, 2010. |
4
John Rogers
burned for
heresy,
Smithfield,
1555. |
| 5
Riot as Kingston
magistrates try to ban
traditional Shrove Tuesday street football game, 1799. |
6
Gradualist
socialist Fabian Society
hold first conference, Essex
Hall, The Strand, 1892. |
7
Suffragettes
trash Kew Gardens
Orchid House, 1913. |
8
Art critic &
social
commentator
John Ruskin
born,
Bloomsbury,
1819. |
9
1969: Family Squatting Campaign squats houses in Ilford – launching modern squatters movement. |
10
Leading
freethinker
of his age,
Richard
Carlile, dies,
London, 1843. |
11
Two ringleaders
of army mutiny (on 1st-2nd Feb)
hanged,
7 more flogged, 1660. |
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Lollard Wiiliam
Sawtrey questioned for heresy, St Pauls, 1401. |
13
Suffragette Women’s
Parliament meets, Caxton Hall, Westminster, 1907. |
14
Socialist author & poet Jim Connell buried, Golders Green – crowd sing his song The Red Flag. 1929. |
15
Radical Clio
Rickman,
publisher,
mate of Tom
Paine, dies
Marylebone, 1834. |
16
Lesbian & Gay
Rights Coalition march, central London, 1991. |
17
Radical
journo William Cobbett
indited for seditious
libel for sympathising
with Swing rioters, 1830.
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18
Two ringleaders
of army mutiny
(in February) hanged,
7 more flogged, 1660. |
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Disabled
Direct Action Network activists block A23 outside Lambeth Town Hall, 1999. |
20
John Aubrey,
John Berry &
Duncan Campbell nicked for
breaching Official Secrets
Act, 1977
(See Nov 8). |
21
House of
Commons votes
to reduce gay
male age of
consent to 18.
Leads to mini-Riot – many wanted 16. |
22
Five mutineers
from the
ship ‘Flowery
Land’ hanged, Newgate,
1864. |
23
150 anti-cuts
protestors occupy Lambeth Town Hall – council
abandon meeting, 2011. |
24
MacPherson
Report labels Met Police institutionally racist, 1999. |
25
Mass miners rally, London, 1985 – many arrests. |
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Secularists GW Foote, Henry Kempe &
WJ Ramsay jailed
for blasphemy, 1883. |
27
Great Public
Meeting of the
Tailors of London adopts a new
Chartist petition,
1842. |
28
Fighting in Trafalgar
Square as fascists attack
anti-apartheid rally, 1960. |
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LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES 