Radical Tea Towel UK Blog

On Clement Attlee’s birthday, let’s remember how he helped to rebuild the Labour Party from bitter defeat in 1931 to stunning victory in 1945. A source of hope in our times. If the Christmas and … read more

On this day in 1890, a working-class kid called Karl Artelt was born near Magdeburg, Germany. Thirty years later he led the naval mutiny which brought down Kaiser Wilhelm and ended the First World W … read more

It's International Tea Day! Obviously we're going to talk about the Radical History of Tea. More and more histories are being written about food. A Tall History of Sugar (Curdella Forb … read more

The WWII hero and socialist Harry Leslie Smith passed away one year ago today. As the guns fell quiet in 1945 and the dust settled on the vanquished fascist empires, many Allied service personnel … read more

Today in 1859, Darwin's scientific Theory of Evolution was released to the world. Its social misuses couldn't be further from the views of Darwin himself. Tony Benn once quipped: “The Marxist anal … read more