Radical History Blog

Above: Our Reflections on the Peterloo massacre The above verse comes at the end of Percy Shelley’s 1819 poem 'The Masque of Anarchy'. The aristocrat-turned-radical wrote it as a funeral march for the British working class murdered by police at the .

It's November 15th, so we just wanted to say 'happy birthday' to this Welshman named 'Nye', as he was often known, was a big-time socialist back in the middle of the last century.

99 years ago today, an armistice was signed between Britain and Germany.

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx It’s the late 1870s. Imagine sitting by his fireplace on a winter's evening in London.

It's the 4th of November, 1839. The last against authority in Britain is about to take place... A year earlier, a had come forward demanding the vote for every man in Britain.

61 years ago today, Britain (in alliance with France and Israel) illegally invaded Egypt. It was all just a big misunderstanding of course... A misunderstanding that were all happy to lay at the door of the Tory government of the day.

Yesterday was the 236th anniversary of the Patriots' victory at the Battle of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War. You might already know that was in command at Yorktown – I could write about him today.

It's been a lot of fun building up the Radical Tea Towel Company over the years. But what are we for, why do we keep going, and how does it relate to something German writer Bertolt Brecht said about 'political illiterates'?

I've always loved America. I don't know if it was because I watched a lot of the Simpsons on TV as a kid. Or that Indiana Jones was just as much of a hero for this British boy as James Bond ever was.