Freedom

Jawaharlal Nehru sought first to free India, and then to ensure its independent voice on the world stage "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." Gandhi and Nehru in 1946 Jawaharlal Nehru was born on this day in 1889.

The 'Age of Revolutions' touched many countries - including the so-called 'Austrian Netherlands' In 1789 the began. But it wasn’t alone... Next door, in what’s now Belgium, the ‘Brabant Revolution’ was happening at the exact same time.

What can Mill's flawed vision of freedom teach us about the radical struggle? Born today in 1806, John Stuart Mill didn’t have a normal English childhood… He was speaking Ancient Greek at three years-old and Latin by the age of eight.

Today all the way back in 1305, the Scottish rebel Sir William Wallace was executed in London. The death of the Scottish outlaw has long since become a symbol of freedom, in Scotland and beyond.