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Born on this day in 1913, Michael Foot took the Labour Party back to its ideological roots The Labour Party has changed a lot since its founding. Having started out as an almost entirel … read more

When we think of the Civil Rights Movement we think of the United States - but it happened here too...Rosa Parks's refusal to leave her seat in 1955 made waves not just across the United States, but a … read more

A Miners' Strike Rally in London in 1984 (Image by nicksarebi)  “We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more dif … read more

Born today in 1770, Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet of Bramcote, was a radical you might not have expected. The decades either side of 1800 – the so-called 'Age of Revolutions' – were a time o … read more

Today, in 1936, John Cornford was killed near the town of Lopera in the south of Spain. Children preparing for evacuation from Spain, during the Spanish Civil War, some giving the Republican salute … read more