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Anyone know of a surviving portrait of Rev Dr Arthur Savage Wade, Radical/Chartist vicar of St Nicholas, Warwick? John Cleave published one in 1834 after Wade led the procession in support of the Tolpuddle labourers, but drawing a complete blank.

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#C19th #History The Cato Street conspiracy came to a bloody end #OTD 23 February 1820, when Bow Street Runners raided the stables where the ultra radicals were planning to seize and murder the Cabinet. Here’s something I wrote for the @sslh.bsky.social website sslh.org.uk/2023/03/18/c...

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#OnThisDay in radical history: Journalist William Cobbett indicted for seditious libel, 1830, for supporting Swing Rioters. Corbett was accused of inciting acts of arson by farm labourers protesting mechanisation, working conditions & wage levels wp.me/p74yfw-s1

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We've got our latest Altona 93 quiz night coming up this Wednesday. Find out how to book your teams space and more here ⬇️

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Have that conversation. Set you fear aside. This is your Anne Frank moment.

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William Smith O’Brien “To find a gaol in one of the lovliest spots formed by Nature in one of her loneliest solitudes creates a revulsion of feeling I cannot describe." November 1849, when first sighting Maria Island.

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William Smith O’Brien Young Ireland Maria Island Tasmania

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William Smith O’Brien Young Ireland Maria island Tasmania

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@nigelcostley.bsky.social Tasmania Convict uniform Tolpuddle Magpie

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Tasmania Penal Colony Maria island Tolpuddle Chartist William Smith O’Brien Young Ireland Convict @markcrail.bsky.social @tolpuddlefest.bsky.social

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#OtD 16 Feb 1943 US-born translator, writer and German anti-Nazi resistance activist Mildred Fish-Harnack was beheaded in Berlin: the only US woman executed on Hitler's personal orders. She helped Jews and forced labourers escape. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podca...

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#OtD 15 Feb 1920 Polish humanitarian, social worker, nurse, and resistance fighter, Irena Sendler, was born in Warsaw. During WWII, she headed the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews. stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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#C19th #Chartism Owenite and Northern Star journalist Thomas Martin Wheeler died #OTD 16 February 1862. After Chartism’s decline, he built up the Friend in Need Life and Sick Assurance Society, turning it into one of the country’s largest mutual societies. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...

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Unbelievably, found "while cataloguing" rather than "discovered" by a researcher after being in the public catalogue for years

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People’s Park. Strahan Tasmania

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Winifred Brenchley OBE Born 10, August 1883 First woman in the UK to break into the male-dominated sphere of agricultural science Botanist who made an important contributions to bryology (the study of mosses)

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“How would President Trump go about forcing some of those millions of Palestinians into Egypt and Jordan?” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Victoria Coates, Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor 2019-20, on the President doubling down on plans to take control of Gaza. #Newsnight

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At least 15 people injured after a car drives into a group of people in Munich, Germany

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Don't erase history - preserve it! And we can't do that without archivists, digital preservation specialists, archive assistants, conservators and the all important depositors - so today's post is dedicated to them all Below: our 'Don't Erase History' rubbers - free if you visit!

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Spain 1939. "Speak the national language" "Speak Christian. Don't speak like a dog". Part of widespread repression of the public use of Catalan, Basque and Galician by the Franco regime. Can't remember where I found it but looks like a screenshot from a Francoist NODO newsreel

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Sarah island Penal colony Van Diemen’s land Tasmania Convicts list @markcrail.bsky.social

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Sarah island penal colony Tasmania @markcrail.bsky.social

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Banned song of convict mutiny on the brig “Cyprus” Liberty @markcrail.bsky.social

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Obvs…..

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Stanley War Memorial Tasmania WW1

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Union banner Millers and Mill Employees Union

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Paul Robeson London Ghanian Students

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Green Bans Forever Jack Mundey

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Edgar Whitbread Australian Union banners @phm.org.uk

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Union banner Australia

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Clarion badges @londonclarioncc.bsky.social Fellowship is Life

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Chartist Australia @markcrail.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

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Blessed are the biscuit makers union Banner @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @phm.org.uk Tolpuddle

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Organised Labor The Hope of the World Clarion @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

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@dhstorg.bsky.social @dhfcw.bsky.social Great photo op

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In 1840 there were 5 inmates at Millbank Penitentiary jailed for taking part in 1839 Chartist rising in Newport. Tate Britain gallery @tate.bsky.social now stands on the site of the prison along with Chelsea College of Art.

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#OnThisDay in London radical history: the legendary Communist Club starts life, Soho, 1840, founded by radical German exiles. In one venue or another this radical meeting & social space lasted nearly 80 years… wp.me/p74yfw-ig

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Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

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We're dedicating this weekends fixtures to the life of Helena McLean. Helena was often found following our women's side here at Champion Hill and on the various away days they have encountered. Find out more here👇

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The importance of a decent #archive catalogue (and a decent researcher!)

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#OnThisDay in gardening history: suffragette attack on Kew Gardens orchid houses, 1913, one action in the increasingly militant war of sabotage, demanding women be ‘granted’ the right to vote wp.me/p74yfw-rs

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Dangers of Trams and cycling

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