Radical History Blog

In eighteenth century Jamaica, Queen Nanny led liberated slaves in a guerrilla war against the British Empire Resistance can take many forms.

Enrique and Ricardo Flores Magón denounced the Díaz dictatorship and fought for revolution We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

Pasquale Paoli isn't a household name, but he was one of the greatest revolutionaries in European history Long before he became a famous general and declared himself Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte thought of himself as a popular revolutionary.

Robert Frost may not have been a radical person, but his poetry is nevertheless part of radical history "I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over." Words have a funny and often mischievous place in radical history.

A shopworker from Somerset was radicalised to join a Labour governmentMargaret Bondfield in 1919 "I had no vocation for wifehood or motherhood, but an urge to serve the Union." Margaret ‘Maggie’ Bondfield was the first woman to become a cabinet minister in British history.

The Spanish Revolution of 1820 sought to re-establish an earlier radical liberal democratic experiment Francisco Goya's El Tres de Mayo commemorating the Spanish resistance to Napoleon Revolutions rarely move in a straight line.

He jumped on a café table and called his fellow Parisians to arms in the name of the 'Third Estate' - the French peopleAbove: H.

Claudia Jones, born 109 years ago today, was deported by the US and left her mark on Britain insteadClaudia Jones blue plaque in Notting Hill, London. Credit: The Notting Hill Carnival was founded by a communist.

Oppenheimer's star rose and fell with the fortunes of left-wing politics in the US between the 1930s and 50sFellow physicists Einstein and Oppenheimer in around 1950 Today marks 57 years since J. Robert Oppenheimer passed away.

Another Radical tried and deported by the British state for advocating democracy, George Mealmaker was born on 10th February 1768 "Our armour shall be reason and truth… Our whole aim is to secure Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage.