Radical History Blog

64 years ago today, Rosa Parks transformed the Civil Rights Movement by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. There are parallels in the global protests of 2019. Alabama, 1955.

In November 1775, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, that the Thirteen Colonies must split with Britain for good. King George’s refusal to recognise American liberties meant that independence was the only answer.

The WWII hero and socialist Harry Leslie Smith passed away one year ago today. As the guns fell quiet in 1945 and the dust settled on the vanquished fascist empires, many Allied service personnel dove headlong into radical politics.

Today in 1859, Darwin's scientific Theory of Evolution was released to the world. Its social misuses couldn't be further from the views of Darwin himself.

We've spent the whole year working on new tea towel designs celebrating history's radical ancestors. Here are a few to inspire your family and friends this holiday season.

The fight for women's suffrage in Britain was a long fought battle, spearheaded by the Suffragette movement. Here are 6 quotes that define this legendary movement of British History.

Thirty years ago today the Berlin Wall was opened at last, crowning a rich history of radical dissent in the Eastern Bloc. Great radical acts and characters often end up having a curious afterlife.

The story of how a speech at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War became an internationalist call to resistance. Today, November 8, happens to be my birthday.

Born today in 1855, Eugene Debs belongs to a proud history of American socialism which is only now being rediscovered.

As the country prepares for another election in five weeks, we explore the forgotten history of the Chartists and the Newport Rising in bringing about our modern democracy. "Rise, like lions after slumber." This was writer in the wake of the .