| Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
1
Mary Macarthur,
womens trade union leader,
dies, Golders Green, 1921.
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2
The Saxons
thought today an unlucky day to do any work. True. |
3
Riots in
Spitalfields as
silk-weavers trash looms, 1768. |
4
king Charles I fails to arrest parliamentary leader in Commons, 1642 - English revolution is underway... |
5
Military Service
Act introduced
1916, paving the way
for WW1 conscription.
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6
Old Vortex jazz
club squatted,
Stoke Newington, 2007. |
7
1888: Funeral
of William Curner,
killed in Bloody Sunday riot.
|
8
Royal Army Service Corps mutiny, demanding faster demobilisation, Park Royal, 1919 |
9
Jane Cobden &
Margaret Sandhurst are first women elected to London County Council, 1889. |
10
John Smith gets
7 years in Newgate for
taking part in trashing
Dingley's Sawmill, 1769. |
11
Freethinker
Richard
Carlile sentenced
to 2 years in
prison for
publishing
the Pioneer, 1831. |
12
Mass demo against anti-trade union Industrial
Relations Bill, 1971. |
13
Elsy Borders goes to
court in West Wickham
mortgage strike, 1938. |
14
Leytonstone's alternative 491 Gallery closes down, 2013. |
15
Use of troops against
transport strikers
sparks more strikes
in Borough & Covent
Garden markets, 1947.
|
16
Socialist Eleanor
Marx born, 1855. |
17
Lodovick
Muggleton ordered
to be pilloried &
his books burned, 1677 |
18
Unemployed occupy
Deptford/Greenwich
Guardians office, 1922,
demanding free coal. |
19
14 publicans fined for
selling booze during
Sunday sermons, 1738. |
20
Squatters
resist
evictions, Haggerston
Estate,
Hackney, 1991.
|
21
Coal porters
& carmen's strike starts, 1914, demanding payrise. |
22
First Labour
govt takes office, 1924 - ready
to prove itself reliable to
capital.
|
23
Committee of 100
sit-in, House of
Commons,
demanding
end to nuclear
tests. 1962. |
24
London School of
Economics occupied
by students, 1969. |
25
Canonbury
home of dole
minister Peter Lilley
picketed & graffitied, 1994 |
26
Gerrard Winstanley publishes The New Law of Righteousness, 1649. |
27
Rising Tide
disrupt oil &
gas exploiters conference, Paddington
Hilton, 2004. |
28
William Benbow
publishes The Grand
National Holiday of the productive Classes, 1832 -
proposing a General strike.
|
29
Nicholas Jakes leads protest in Westminster, 1450
- for which he is hanged. |
30
Secularist
heavyweight Charles
Bradlaugh dies, 1891. |
31
Anti-war meetings
broken up by pro-war
rowdies, Stepney, 1878. |
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Troops
Out
...of the
army!
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