A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British ruling class used racism to divide an increasingly ...
WHEN the Chartists marched on Parliament in 1839 to protest the plight of Britain’s working class they did not, as some feared, batter down the doors. Instead, in a tactic they were to use twice more ...
A forgotten figure from a pivotal moment in history is about to take centre stage. Newport-based Her Story Theatre Company ...
It’s 1848 and Queen Victoria is pregnant with her 6 th child, but her burgeoning belly is the least of her worries. Revolution abroad and unrest at home, coupled with new houseguests, and a ...
WHEN my friend Wurm told me that Tussy Marx — Mrs. Eleanor Marx Aveling will not take it amiss that I use the dear, familiar name of her as a child — had undertaken to write a history of the English ...
Engels, in his writings on the English working class from the 1840s, evinced considerable enthusiasm over the growth of strike struggles and trade unions. But even at this early stage, he criticized ...
WITH the newly named Andrew Windsor Mountbatten in the headlines for the wrong — but at the same time absolutely the right — ...
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