Pete

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.

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 is a humble, humble thing.

Above: Our Reflections on the Peterloo massacre The above verse comes at the end of Percy Shelley’s 1819 poem 'The Masque of Anarchy'. The aristocrat-turned-radical wrote it as a funeral march for the British working class murdered by police at the .

99 years ago today, an armistice was signed between Britain and Germany.

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx It’s the late 1870s. Imagine sitting by his fireplace on a winter's evening in London.

61 years ago today, Britain (in alliance with France and Israel) illegally invaded Egypt. It was all just a big misunderstanding of course... A misunderstanding that were all happy to lay at the door of the Tory government of the day.

Yesterday was the 236th anniversary of the Patriots' victory at the Battle of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War. You might already know that was in command at Yorktown – I could write about him today.