#OnThisDay in theatrical history: footmen riot after being denied entrance to Drury Lane playhouse, 1737. wp.me/p74yfw-jV

#OnThisDay in London's rebel history: a street meeting protesting against the Boer War attacked by a ‘patriotic crowd’, Highbury Corner, Islington, 1900 wp.me/p74yfw-4L

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1990: Haringey Council meets to set the Poll Tax. 1,000 demonstrate - people invade the Council Chamber and block the road outside. Haringey 11 arrested. Meeting is adjourned.

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1990: Anti poll tax protestors are ejected from a council meeting to set the poll tax rate in Sutton.

#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1617: apprentices celebrate the annual Shrove Tuesday holiday wp.me/p74yfw-E7

#OnThisDay in repressive history, 1817: law of ‘habeas corpus’ suspended in goverment crackdown on radicals, during an upsurge of prosper for social change and political reform wp.me/p74yfw-jM

#OnThisDay in London's squatting history: ‘Ex-Grand Banks’ squatted social centre opens, Tufnell Park, 2004 wp.me/p74yfw-4I

#OnThisDay in London apocalyptic history, 1795: Prophet Richard Brothers is arrested for foretelling the death of the king & the destruction of parliament unless they halt the war on revolutionary France. Brothers is soon imprisoned in an asylum. #MadMarch More on Richard Brothers: wp.me/p74yfw-13P

#OnThisDay 1985. Labour leader Neil Kinnock pelted with tomatoes by students at Haringey College, North London, who said he had betrayed the striking miners.

#OnThisDay in suffrage/anti-war history, 1915: the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies splits over whether to support or oppose war effort in World War 1: wp.me/p74yfw-sw

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1972: a mass meeting protests threat to cut mental health services at Paddington Day Hospital #MadMarch wp.me/p74yfw-jC

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: it's not madness to think the Tories are persecuting you... the Daniel McNaughton case. #MadMarch wp.me/p74yfw-4F

#OnThisDay in London's parklife, 1999: Crystal Palace eco-camp stormed by police. But Bromley Council’s attempts to zone a massive cinema complex at top of Crystal Palace Park eventually sees a local campaign & the squat camp defeat the plans wp.me/p74yfw-Wa

#OnThisDay in London's radical history 1767: inhabitants of the village of Stanwell hold a victory parade from Westminster to their homes, after an enclosure bill for part of Hounslow Heath in their parish is defeated in Parliament. Enclosures & resistance on Hounslow Heath wp.me/p74yfw-1p1

#OnThisDay in London's herstory, 1685: Anne Arthur flies with the Devil over Deptford wp.me/p74yfw-1P1

#OnThisDay in spooky history, 1981: MI5 send a memo to Special Branch’s Special Demonstration Squad asking for intelligence on new anarchist bookshop at 121 Railton Road Brixton. SDS #spycop Roger Pearce will report on 121 for the next 3 years. SDS spying & reporting on 121: wp.me/p74yfw-j4S

Seems like the right time to share this again. Here’s Menelik Shabazz’s short film Blood A Go Run which was filmed at the Black People’s Day Of Action in ‘81 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJdf...

#OnThisDay in London anti-racist history, 1981: the Black People's Day of Action. A march many 1000s strong protests inaction and official neglect after fourteen young Black people are killed in the New Cross Fire wp.me/p74yfw-Ud

#OnThisDay in London's socialist history: a meeting of radical clubs forms the Democratic Federation, 1881. It later becomes the Social Democratic Federation & adopts a socialist program... wp.me/p74yfw-jR

#OnThisDay in London industrial history: uber-factory the Albion steam-powered flour burns down, 1791. Arson was suspected, by millers whose livelihoods it threatened. More in our pamphlet, The Burning of the Albion Mills pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: 1000s attend a meeting at the National Baths, Lambeth to celebrate the latest French Revolution, 1848. Chartist leaders address the crowd wp.me/p74yfw-4z

#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1614: Lewisham residents demonstrate against the enclosure of Sydenham Common wp.me/p74yfw-Eg

#OnThisDay in London religious history, 1401: William Sawtrey burned for Lollard heresy, Smithfield wp.me/p74yfw-jw

#OnThisDay in London secessionist history, 1970: 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence' on the Isle of Dogs, protesting council & govt failure to address decline & poverty wp.me/p74yfw-H3

#OnThisDay in queer history: acid-drag queen commune Bethnal Rouge opens, Bethnal Green, 1973 wp.me/p74yfw-so

#OnThisDay in parliamentary history: unemployed hunger marchers occupy House of Commons, 1934. wp.me/p74yfw-jJ

#OnThisDay in radical history: mass unofficial strike against the Industrial Relations Bill, 1971. wp.me/p74yfw-4C

#OnThisDay in London smashing herstory, 1912: suffragettes demolish 100s of West End windows in their sabotage campaign demanding the vote for women wp.me/p74yfw-1R1

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1990: 300 strong demo at Hillingdon Town Hall as borough council attempt to set local poll tax. 50 protestors occupy the council chamber – meeting abandoned.

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#OnThisDay in London anti-fascist history: nazis attack anti-apartheid rally, Trafalgar Square, 1960. wp.me/p74yfw-si

#OnThisDay in London's radical past: Chartists rally on Blackheath, 1846. wp.me/p74yfw-3n

#OnThisDay in London lesbian herstory, 1986: At ‘an extremely raucous’ public meeting, Camden council grants a change of use order for 54-56 Phoenix Road (despite homophobic protests from some locals), to become Camden Lesbian Centre. womenslibrary.org.uk/2021/07/31/c...

#OnThisDay in London radical history: military recruits & convicts mutiny, Savoy Gaol, 1776. wp.me/p74yfw-jl

#OnThisDay in London policing history, 1990: cops attack striking Bacton Fashions workers, Hackney. Local police, secret police & immigration services join to support bastard bosses against migrant workers fighting to improve pay & conditions wp.me/p74yfw-1NN

#OnThisDay in London secular history: GW Foote, WJ Ramsay and Henry Kempe tried for blasphemy, 1883. wp.me/p74yfw-sl

#OnThisDay in London's religious history: Lollard William Sawtrey ordered to be burnt for heresy, 1401. wp.me/p74yfw-jw

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: anti-war women's meeting to plan Hague peace conference, 1915 wp.me/p74yfw-4g

#OnThisDay in London educational history, 1999: Students occupy Goldsmiths University against tuition fees wp.me/p74yfw-SL

#OnThisDay in radical history, 1649: John Lilburne presents ‘England's New Chains Discovered’ to Parliament. It appeals to soldiers, the provinces & Londoners to reject the rule of the Army grandees, the council of state, & their ‘puppet’ parliament. www.marxists.org/history/engl...

#OnThisDay in London (dis)royal history 1584: Whitehall Palace, 
“At the Strand two London yeomen stole and carried away £900 in coined
gold, of the goods and chattels of the Queen”.

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: striking tailors riot in the City, 1792. wp.me/p74yfw-4i

#OnThisDay in London's Puritan history: Lord Mayor petitions Archbishop of Canterbury against disorder & immorality he claims is spread by allowing anyone to go to the theatre, 1592

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1839: A crowd of 7000 attend a Chartist meeting at the George pub, Commercial road, Limehouse. Crowd addressed from a window in the pub.

#OnThisDay in London healthcare history, 1972 – patients & staff take direct action re proposed closure of Paddington Day hospital (mental health day clinic), they gatecrash a meeting of Regional Hospital Board to discuss it! More on the struggle to save the Day Hospital : wp.me/p74yfw-jC

#OnThisDay in London's theatrical history: There’s a riot at Covent Garden Theatre against ticket price rises, 1763. wp.me/p74yfw-jp

#OnThisDay in London's rebel history: The Call newspaper is launched as the voice of the anti-war faction of the British Socialist Party, 1916, after the party splits over jingoism & the support of the majority & leadership for the slaughter of WW1 wp.me/p74yfw-48

#OnThisDay in London anti-war history, 1878: A mass meeting is held at Hyde Park protesting the Russo-Turkish War & denouncing British support for Ottoman Empire repression in its Balkan colonies. The rally is broken up by members of the `National and Patriotic League' led by a Lieutenant Armit.

#OnThisDay in London's legal history, 1794: radical author, publisher and activist Daniel Isaac Eaton tried for seditious libel, 1794. He’s acquitted! www.bindmans.com/uploads/file...

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