#OnThisDay in London's transport history: One day strike brings London underground to standstill, 1989.

#OnThisDay in London's rebel past: City apprentices march to demand the restoration of holidays banned by puritans, 1647 wp.me/p74yfw-7f

##OnThisDay in London radical history, 1549: further anti-enclosure protests at Ruislip, continuing trespassing into fenced off land which began on the 14th. wp.me/p74yfw-HP

#OnThisDay in London publishing history: Act passed punishing publishers of unstamped newspapers, 1743. Charging publishers for the official stamp is aimed at restricting the lower orders’ access to news; but this Act leads to huge resistance… wp.me/p74yfw-lC

#OnThisDay in London radical history: Expulsions of strike leaders from Transport & General Workers Union sparks dock strike, 1950. wp.me/p74yfw-6O

#OnThisDay in London trade history: master tailors go to court to restrict rights of their workers, 1415 wp.me/p74yfw-tY

#OnThisDay in London housing history, 2008: Squat venue opens Bowl Court, Shoreditch, including squatters estate agency!

#OnThisDay in London rebellious history, 1417: Tenants of the Abbey of St Albans in Barnet refuse their ‘due customs and services' to the Abbot. They are enraged by illegal land transfers & interference with tenants rights.

As the Centenary of the 1926 General Strike approaches: How did trade unionists organise the Strike on the ground in one area of London? Now back in print: ‘Nine Days In May’ The 1926 General Strike in Southwark Buy online here: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/nine...

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: anti-nuclear sitdown protest in Whitehall, 1961 wp.me/p74yfw-7c

#OnThisDay in London anti-fascist history: anti-semitic nazi march opposed, Clapton, 2015 wp.me/p74yfw-lx

#OnThisDay in London's nautical history, 1783: 2000 seamen assemble on Tower Hill, and march on the Admiralty, demanding payment of long arrears of wages and prize-money.

#OnThisDay in repressive history, 1577: Eight ‘gypsies’ condemned to death at Aylesbury under vicious legislation which made being a Roma traveller a capital offence. www.executedtoday.com/2020/04/18/1...

#OnThisDay in London monumental herstory, 1913: Ethel Spark & Gertrude Shaw climb 311 steps up The Monument, haul down the City of London flag & hoist the suffragette flag, & scatter hundreds of Votes For Women leaflets over the crowd below. www.themonument.org.uk/history/disc...

#OnThisDay in London's nazi history: David Copeland plants a nail bomb in Brixton market, 1999, injuring 48 people. He goes on to leave 2 more in Brick Lane & Admiral Duncan gay pub, Soho, killing 3 people. But fails to launch the race war he anticipates wp.me/p74yfw-79

#OnThisDay in London nautical history, 1984: Peoples Charter for Docklands taken to Parliament by Docklands Armada. cspace.org.uk/archive/dock... Some photos of the Docklands Armada: www.80sislandphotos.org.uk/docklands-ar...

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1771: an informer who sent insurgent silkweavers to the gallows killed in community punishment, Bethnal Green wp.me/p74yfw-Z8

#OnThisDay in trade union history: Black Friday, 1921: leaders of rail and transport unions shaft striking miners. wp.me/p74yfw-6U

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: coalheavers riot in East End ‘river strike’, Wapping, 1768. wp.me/p74yfw-lp

#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1946: Labour government (again) sends troops into Smithfield to break market workers strike… 3000 more porters come out on strike in response.

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1870: a Land & labour League unemployed demonstration. wp.me/p74yfw-tV

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1912: The Daily Herald is launched as a leftwing tabloid paper, though it had existed as a strike sheet from 1911, emerging as strike bulletin from the newspaper compositors’ lockout pasttense.co.uk/2016/02/04/t...

#OnThisDay in radical history: National Conference of Women meets, Central Hall, to discuss basis for WW1 peace, 1915. wp.me/p74yfw-6S

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1549: several days of resistance to enclosure begin in Ruislip wp.me/p74yfw-HP

#OnThisDay in London shawshankian history, 1736: Seven Prisoners in Newgate, under Sentence of Transportation, escape Newgate Prison via the common Sewer. 4 get up a Vault into a House in Fleet Lane, 3 of whom make their Escape, a 4th is recaptured.

#OnThisDay in London radical history: enclosure fences torn down, Wandsworth Common, 1870, one incident in a struggle over several years which preserved much of the Common as open space accessible to all wp.me/p74yfw-lh

#OnThisDay in London protest herstory, 1915: The East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS) send delegation to Board of Trade to demand equal pay for women. A post covering some of the story of the ELFS: wp.me/p74yfw-VD

‘It was so queer being awake and having dreams’. The Magic Faraway Tree books as utopian fantasies influencing Alan Moore, 1990s road protestors and more (now a film) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/04/it-w...

#OnThisDay in London festive history, 1997: Liverpool dockers and Reclaim the Streets ‘March for Social Justice’ ends in Trafalgar Square street party & a police riot, enabled by #spycop Jim Boyling wp.me/p74yfw-Vy

#OnThisDay in London radical history: Social Centre in squatted Dole Office resists eviction, Deptford, 2011 wp.me/p74yfw-6F

This week in London radical history: Protest camp against Olympic Landgrab evicted, Leyton Marsh, 2012. wp.me/p74yfw-6L

#OnThisDay in London's legal history: trial of Social Democratic Federation leaders for incitement to riot ends in acquittal, 1886. wp.me/p74yfw-ll

#OnThisDay in London's rebellious past: Riots defeat the Excise Bill & Londoners party all night, 1733. wp.me/p74yfw-6x

#OnThisDay in London insurgent history, 1981: the Brixton Uprising. After years of racist police violence, Brixton youth erupt, leading to two days of rioting. wp.me/p74yfw-tP

You poor take courage You rich take care The earth was made a common treasury For everyone to share

#OnThisDay in radical history, 1848: the last great Chartist rally on Kennington Common. wp.me/p74yfw-tK

#OnThisDay in London's publishing history: Police and customs raid Gays the Word book­shop, 1984, targeting so-called ‘obscene publications’ (gay books & mags) wp.me/p74yfw-6C

#OnThisDay in commonrights history, 1646: Future ‘Digger’ Gerrard Winstanley, with five other men and two women, is fined at Cobham manorial court for digging on waste land. wp.me/p74yfw-HF

#OnThisDay in military history: conscripts in Savoy barracks bound for service in East India Company, riot; all are shot dead. 1763. wp.me/p74yfw-lf

#OnThisDay in London insurrectionary history, 1657, Venner and his Fifth Monarchist rebels assemble on Mile End Green to launch an uprising against Cromwell’s Protectorate. They're surprised by the army, and dispersed, with 20 arrests & the seizure of arms and manifestoes.

#OnThisDay in London legal history, 1849: Charles Lee tried for violent theft allegedly committed during the March 1848 Camberwell Chartist riot – sentenced to transportation for life. The Camberwell Chartist Riot: wp.me/p74yfw-Xy

#OnThisDay in London radical herstory, 1866: Henrietta (Netta) Franklin, teacher & suffragette, was born in Paddington. She helped form Jewish League for Woman Suffrage; they were labelled “blackguards in bonnets”. jwa.org/encyclopedia...

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: Troops fire on crowd protesting arrest of Radical MP Francis Burdett, 1810 wp.me/p74yfw-6u

#OnThisDay in London's drunken history: a gin riot in Seven Dials, 1735. wp.me/p74yfw-tH

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: imprisoned debtors attempt mass escape, Newgate Prison, 1778. wp.me/p74yfw-6p

#OnThisDay in London history: War is the Ruin of the Drinking Classes, 1917 - a brief look at the war effort, the needs of wartime munitions production, morality, beer prices, and licensing hours. A heady brew. wp.me/p74yfw-lc

#OnThisDay in London racist history, 1984, there was a series of racist attacks in the Upton Park and Forest Gate areas of Newham, carried by the same group of racist thugs driving around in a car. www.nmp.org.uk/timeline/new...

#OnThisDay in London history, 1836: William Godwin dies. More on his 1793 book ‘Enquiry Concerning Political Justice’, first published. Godwin proposes a rational, enlightened society based on education & individual self-government. wp.me/p74yfw-CJ

Over a century ago, Black, white, & Hispanic sawmill workers secretly organized the Brotherhood of Timber Workers in East Texas. In an era of Jim Crow laws, workers demanded fair wages & basic rights for everyone – regardless of skin color or gender.

Arrests at Lakenheath nuclear base blockade News, Apr 6th International Peace Camp protests British complicity in Iran and Gaza ~ punkacademic ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/06/a...