'The rascal riotous multitude' besiege Lambeth Palace, 1640.
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Sunday |
we're the
rascal riotous
multitude -
the roofs of
London
are OURS! |
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1
Radical
bookshop Centreprise
opens, Dalston, 1971. |
2
1000s join
massive tailors strike
in East End, 1912. |
3
Three Anabaptists executed at Southwark, 1540.
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4
Sisters Uncut occupy
roof of the London
Councils building, 2015. |
5
Gargoyle Wharf eco-squat opened, Wandsworth 1996. |
6
1926 General Strikers
warm themselves
burning copies of govt anti-strike paper, the British
Gazette, Bermondsey. |
7
Veteran left
Labour leader George
Lansbury dies, 1940. |
8
1947: Strike of City
of London Corporation
workers ends in defeat. |
9
Internationalist anti-war faction of National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies, holds meeting, 1915. |
10
Massacre of St Georges Fields, 1768: troops shoot pro-Wilkes crowd at Kings Bench Prison, Southwark.
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11
'500 persons of
the rascal riotous
multitude' besiege Lambeth
Palace, 1640, baying for
blood of Archbishop Laud. |
12
Confrontation
between police & black
youth at New River Sports
Centre, Wood Green, 1976.
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13
During London
bus strike, only 20
of
1900 buses running, 1917.
|
14
Big London demo for
abortion rights, 1977. |
15
Kebba Jobe
killed by
police,
Camden,
2004. |
16
Strike of hansom cab
drivers begins, 1894. |
17
Sitdown protest in
Brixton Prison, 1972. |
18
Women's rally for equal
pay, Trafalgar Square, 1969.
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19
Radicals Paul
Le Maitre, John Smith &
George Higgins fitted up for bullshit
'popgun plot'
to murder the king. 1796. |
20
Wominspace
squatted social centre,
Hackney, evicted, 2008. |
21
British
Government issues
a writ against Thomas Paine for 'wicked and
seditious writings', 1791. |
22
Society for the
Abolition of the Slave
Trade formed by Granville
Sharp and friends, 1787. |
23
Lesbians
invade BBC news in
protest at Section 28, 1988 |
24
Tony McGrath
hangs himself in F wing, Brixton Prison, 1991. |
25
25 Dutch Anabaptists examined at St. Paul's for 'heretical' views, 1535. |
26
2 battalions of
Guards & Artillery
strike over pay & bullying,
Woolwich
Barracks,
1797.
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27
Anti-fascists
occupy Speakers Corner
to prevent Nazi Blood & Honour
meet-up, 1989. |
28
Race riots in
London docks, and attacks on black sailors, 1919. |
29
Police attack
open air
Socialist League meeting,
Stratford Grove, 1886. |
30
Escape attempt
from Kings Bench Prison
turns into a riot, 1791. |
31
Chartists
fight off police
attack on
Clerkenwell
roofs, 1848. |
