Radical Tea Towel UK Blog

How one pamphlet infuriated the entire British establishment Long before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the US, there was the trial of Thomas Paine in England. But in the 1790s, … read more

Today in 1793, John Clare was born in rural Northamptonshire. He emerged from a peasant world to become a national poet, and his poetry was marked by the worsening inequalities and injustices in Bri … read more

It takes a brave person to stand up and back a revolution. Sometimes it takes an even braver one to call out its weaknesses. Mary Wollstonecraft - who died today in 1797 - was a radical who, just … read more