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On 27th February in 1900 at the Congregational Memorial Hall on Farringdon Street, not far from St Paul's Cathedral, the Labour Representation Committee was created.

Today we're thinking about the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which gave (some, but not all) women in the UK the right to vote for the first time. It was a .

One of our newer tea towel characters is . We chose him for what he has come to symbolise – in 19th century America.

Today is . Holocaust remembrance often foregrounds lessons about the human capacity for evil if racism, state power, and the process of dehumanisation are left unchecked. It evokes images of the pitch-black uniforms of Hitler’s SS.

Get new post updates It was 99 years ago today that died in Berlin. 89 years ago today, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

Get new post updates "I was left-wing, I am left-wing, and I will die left-wing." died today last year, a man of his word.

We're going to be leaving behind a lot of big radical anniversaries in 2017: the hundredth anniversary of the ; the International Brigades' first combat experience defending the in 1937; seventy years since Indian independence.But 2018 has loads more in store for us.

In the First World War records of the 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment of the Imperial German Army, there's a lonely paragraph which stands out from the pages and pages of battle reports and casualty statistics.

Note from Luke: for today's blog post on , Pete tells the fascinating story of his family's arrival in Britain over 100 years ago and how the establishment of human rights has changed how we think about refugees. Over to Pete!

, the Polish-born socialist, once said that "Those who do not move do not notice their chains." The fact that Luxemburg was Jewish at a time when antisemitism was virulent in central Europe added to her sense of injustice.