London Rebel History Calendar - June 2020

1

Planned
mass escape foiled,
Newgate Prison 1758.

2

Kentish rebels
storm Lesnes Abbey,
Abbey Wood, as Peasants' Revolt kicks off, 1381.

3

Pupils at Crown Woods
School, Eltham, strike against school
being turned
into an academy, 2014.

4

Patrick Dudley hanged for escaping from prison hulks for second time. 1785.

5

Robert Taylor, blasphemous preacher, once known as the devil's chaplain, dies, 1844.

6

First meeting of ulterior
Chartist committee
to plan uprising, Windsor
Castle pub, Holborn, 1848.

7

British Union of
Fascists rally, Olympia,
disrupted by Communist
Party and others, 1934.

8

Law passed banning all festivals and holidays, 1647: part of repression
of popular culture.

9

Soft left Fabian Society
hold first Conference, South Place Chapel, 1886.

10

Spitalfields silkweavers launch calico riots against cheap cloth imports, 1719.

11

'Diggers'
community in Surrey
attacked by thugs hired by
local landowners, 1649.

12

1381: after
attacking landlords/
government officials all over
the county, Essex rebel army
camp at Mile
End Fields.

13

Riot over price of butter, City of London, 1595.

14

Feminist icon
(but cheerleader
for WW1 slaughter),
Emmeline Pankhurst
dies, Hampstead, 1928.

15

Workers/users
start sit in at Lambeth Womens Project, Stockwell, 2012, resisting eviction threat.

16

4 shoemakers
jailed for leading
combination
(illegal union), Marlborough St, 1804.

17

1000s avoid paying
entry to Notting Hill
Hippodrome racecourse
using holes in fence, 1837.

18

Lambeth magistrates
Court firebombed
by Angry Brigade, 1972.

19

10,000 women join
Peacemakers Pilgrimage
to Hyde Park, 1926.

20

Fenian plot to
blow up Queen Victoria
in Westminster Abbey fails, 1887 (probably as it
was set up by police spies?).

21

Briant Colour
Printing workers launch year-long occupation/work-in,
Old Kent Road, 1972.

22

Metropolitan Asylum
District first meets,1867:
set up to shovel poor into asylums instead
of workhouses, 1867.

23

Yorkshire
miners join
mass picket at Grunwicks,
1977.

24

Peter James Bossy is
last person sentenced to stand in the pillory in
London, 1830.

25

White
racist gangs attack
Bengalis around
Brick Lane, 1978.

26

Former Leveller
John Wildman sent to Tower for involvement in Rye House plot, 1683.

27

First Lesbian Strength march in London, 1981.

28

Gordon
rioters go on trial, 1780.

29

Suffragettes
break all
the windows at the
Home Office,
Treasury & Privy
Council, 1909.

30

Unemployed Workers
Movement defend family
against eviction, Plumbers
Row, Stepney, 1933.