Republic

Killed in action on this day in 1936, Durruti led 6,000 Anarchists in the fight against Francisco Franco “We carry a new world in our hearts.” The Spanish Civil War made strange bedfellows.

Born on this day in 1805, Auguste Blanqui devoted his life to the dream of revolution “The Republic means the emancipation of the workers, it’s the end of the reign of exploitation, it’s the coming of a new order that will free labour from the tyranny of capital.” When did the end?

Born on this day, Algernon Sidney was one of England's greatest revolutionaries “This hand, enemy to tyrants, by the sword seeks peace with liberty.” The second half of the seventeenth century was the great revolutionary period of British history.

The story of how a tennis court became one of the most important sites in radical history... You might expect revolutions to start out in factories, shipyards, or prisons – not luxury tennis courts.