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Industrial Revolution
John Clare: The Peasant Poet
July 13, 2020| Pete| 1978
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 Britain at the beginning of the industrial age.
To Live Working or to Die Fighting: The Canut Revolts
October 17, 2026| Pete| 19
The story of how silk workers in Lyon heralded a new era of class-based radical struggle...
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