“Abiezer Coppe… did away with sin…” (Leon Rosselson) On 14th January 1650, Abiezer Coppe delivered a blasphemous sermon in St Helen’s Church , Bishopsgate. He seems to have used the tactic of…

The drive towards high-rise housing which began in the late 1950s is often crudely represented as evidence of the inhumanity of architects and planners and the megalomania of their local authority ena...

A Cultural History of London SE14 By Neil Gordon-Orr New Cross has long been an area where people have made interesting things happen, some of which have have had an impact way beyond this corner of S...

He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.

Harry Stanley was a 46-year-old Scottish painter and decorator, who lived in Hackney, East London. In September 1999 he was recovering from a successful cancer operation. On September 22nd Harry le…

At a vigil for a young man who allegedly suffered brutality in police custody, a new face appears.

At an early 62 Group encounter outside Hackney town hall, Maurice charged at a huge fascist bruiser and smashed him to the ground. He then grabbed his jacket with such force that the lapels came aw…

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Guest Post by John Eden One of the devices used by people who defend neo-Folk is the claim that its critics are outsiders who don’t unders...

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The 1926 General Strike around the Elephant & Castle Amended text of a walk organsied by past tense in May 2026 around the Elephant area, attended by some 60 people. Start: The Obelisk, St George’s Circus In the aftermath of World War 1, as the British war economy was returned to  ‘peacetime’ working conditions, the early 1920s saw a mass economic slump, with mass unemployment and an onslaught of employers against workers, in a struggle to reduce wages and conditions. In parallel with this, the mass slaughter and disillusion arising from the war, and the influence of the 1917 Russian Revolution, had created a militant generation which saw the possibility of positive social change and was prepared to strike en masse to try to achieve better lives.

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Raoul Vaneigem was one of the most important thinkers within the Situationist International as well as frequent editor of their journal Internationale Situationniste. The Revolution of Everyday Life, ...