Radical History Blog

Get new post updates "I was left-wing, I am left-wing, and I will die left-wing." died today last year, a man of his word.

Get new post updates Last autumn, I decided we needed to make a Radical Tea Towel video. So I had a conversation with my childhood friend, , a writer and director.

My mother, , was a radical. A liberal, a feminist, a socialist. A fiercely loyal mother and grandmother. You'd always hear her sticking up for the downtrodden, whoever and wherever they were. She spoke her mind, but was polite about it.

We're going to be leaving behind a lot of big radical anniversaries in 2017: the hundredth anniversary of the ; the International Brigades' first combat experience defending the in 1937; seventy years since Indian independence.But 2018 has loads more in store for us.

In the First World War records of the 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment of the Imperial German Army, there's a lonely paragraph which stands out from the pages and pages of battle reports and casualty statistics.

We Brits like to think of ourselves as the true custodians of tea: enthusiasts - perhaps even connoisseurs. But let's not kid ourselves. We didn't invent it. The stuff comes from China. It's the national drink of Afghanistan.

Note from Luke: for today's blog post on , Pete tells the fascinating story of his family's arrival in Britain over 100 years ago and how the establishment of human rights has changed how we think about refugees. Over to Pete!

Exactly 69 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the ''. And it's in part thanks to a special woman named .

Get new post updates We recently shared some posts on Facebook showing several of our poster tea towels and oven gloves. It kicked off a bit of a debate... Some people even got quite offended!

, the Polish-born socialist, once said that "Those who do not move do not notice their chains." The fact that Luxemburg was Jewish at a time when antisemitism was virulent in central Europe added to her sense of injustice.