Radical Tea Towel UK Blog

When you think of May Day demonstrations, you probably imagine cloth-capped parades through industrial city streets. Perhaps an accurate image historically - but the scene was a little different i … read more

102 years ago today, while the Great War was burning the world down, a few hundred Irish men and women struck out for independence after 800 years of English rule. In what we now call the Easter … read more

"Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, wrote those words in 1951. A few years earlier, on 19th April 1943, Jewish P … read more

170 years ago today, on Kennington Common in Lambeth, South London (now known as Kennington Park), 25,000 'Chartists' met to make their demands for democratic reforms including universal suffrage. … read more

On 6th April 1320, thirty-nine Scottish nobles signed the Declaration of Arbroath – a letter to Pope John XXII calling him to support Scotland's claim to sovereignty against King Edward II of Engla … read more