Radical History Blog

You can say what you want about the French, but when it comes to civil insurrection they are without equal. , , , and – 50 years ago – 1968.

After months of shoehorning dubiously relevant references into every email I can, I get to write you one about the man himself – today is his 200th Birthday, after all!

When you think of demonstrations, you probably imagine . Perhaps an accurate image historically - but the scene was a little different in 1971 Washington DC.

102 years ago today, while the Great War was burning the world down, a few hundred Irish men and women struck out for independence after 800 years of English rule.

"Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The Welsh poet, , wrote those words in 1951. A few years earlier, on 19th April 1943, Jewish Poles in the Warsaw Ghetto lived them.

170 years ago today, on Kennington Common in Lambeth, South London (now known as Kennington Park), 25,000 '' met to make their demands for democratic reforms including universal suffrage.

On 6th April 1320, thirty-nine Scottish nobles signed the – a letter to Pope John XXII calling him to support Scotland's claim to sovereignty against King Edward II of England. If you've seen Mel Gibson's Braveheart, you know the story.

There comes a time in every tea towel company's life when it has to decide what it stands for. The truth is that, despite the range of radical designs we've produced over the years, there's always been one famous woman we've left out.

Today (31st March) is the 120th anniversary of Eleanor Marx's death in 1898. After learning that her partner, the English socialist Edward Aveling, had been having an affair, Eleanor tragically committed suicide by poison. She was just 43.

Around this time of year back in 1871, Parisians were getting ready to vote. These weren’t normal elections. They were voting in a ne w, revolutionary body: . You're going to need some background.