Political activist and writer. 2012 co-authored 'A People's History of London'.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Rees
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Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was buried in this churchyard on the 14th November 1648 a...
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Alderman Fred J. Read
Chairman Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall.
Yuri Andropov
Leader of the Soviet Union 1982-84. Source: Wikipedia.
Mark Cummins
Councillor (1988-98, 2006-2014) and Mayor of the London Borough of Brent 1997-8.
Chartists
Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain, which took its name from the People's Charter of 1838. It began among skilled workers in small shops, and handloom workers in ...
May Day demonstration in Hyde Park, 1890
Paste Tense describes why and how the 1st of May became the International Workers' Day, how the first such day, in 1890, was planned in the United Kingdom, and goes on to describe: "The main demons...

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