Radical History Blog

On this day in 1820, a Radical Insurrection swept across ScotlandWhen the Napoleonic Wars came to an end in 1815, Radical politics was at a low ebb across the British Isles.

Elected to the British Parliament in 1922, Saklatvala was born on this day in 1874 What is it that connects Battersea in South London, the Indian corporate giant Tata Steel, and the Communist Party of Great Britain?

"Informed opposition to apartheid...

How one pamphlet infuriated the entire British establishment Long before the in the US, there was the trial of Thomas Paine in England. But in the 1790s, the spectre haunting the British Establishment was republicanism, not socialism.

Earlier this week was International Women's Day, and today we are celebrating one woman who galvanised the fight for women's suffrage across the world...

A Miners' Strike Rally in London in 1984 (Image by nicksarebi) “We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands.

Born today in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois remains an icon of black and radical history in the US...On 28th August 1963, about 250,000 Americans took part in March on Washington.It was one of the great popular agitations of US history.

Born today in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois remains an icon of black and radical history in the US...On 28th August 1963, about 250,000 Americans took part in March on Washington.It was one of the great popular agitations of US history.

77 years ago today, Missak Manouchian and twenty-one comrades were shot at Fort Mont-Valérien, on the outskirts of Paris. Missak Manouchian (1906-1944) survived one genocide and then gave his life fighting to stop another.

76 years ago today the RAF bombed the German city of Dresden, killing thousands of civilians.