Radical Tea Towel UK Blog

Oscar Wilde: the favourite partygoer who died on St Andrew's Day in 1900 Who's the larger-than-life personality we can remember on November 30th? If you know your saints, you might b … read more

A long line of radical beards I have a beard. It’s nothing too showy but it’s far more than just stubble, and I like it. Next to some of the great radicals of the 19th century, however, it … read more

Above: Our Percy Bysshe Shelley tea towel Reflections on the Peterloo massacre The above verse comes at the end of Percy Shelley’s 1819 poem 'The Masque of Anarchy'. … read more

It's November 15th, so we just wanted to say 'happy birthday' to this Welshman named Aneurin Bevan. 'Nye', as he was often known, was a big-time socialist back in the middle of the last century. … read more

99 years ago today, an armistice was signed between Britain and Germany. Here's the war poet, Wilfred Owen: "If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupt … read more