Radical History Blog

Lily Parr was a lesbian icon and working-class hero during the first Golden Age of women's football in Britain...

Bertrand Russell was a lifelong pacifist and critic of warmongering imperialism...

The West Coast Waterfront Strike was an amazing moment of solidarity for the American working class...

The General Strike saw over 1.5 million workers unite in solidarity with the coalminers...

It's one hundred years since the UK General Strike, which took place from 4-12 May, 1926.

The Chartist uprising that turned a small town in Wales into a self-governing republic...

The Irish Land League was founded by labour activist Michael Davitt on this day in 1879...

The Black student organisation at the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement...

The American abolitionist veteran who went to fight for Cuban independence and the abolition of slavery.

The story of the Marxist-feminist who became the world's first woman cabinet minister and ambassador.

Feminism began as a worldwide movement.

Rather than being sealed up in national boxes, feminists worked together across borders...