Friday, February 21, 2014

Labour Party Housing Leaflet 1923

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Labour Party Housing leaflet 1923 A LABOUR GOVERNMENT will provide MORE HOUSES BETTER HOUSES REAL HOUSES AT REASONABLE RENTS...

Bradford "Locarno" Dance Hall - Colour Bar 1961 -1962

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Daily Worker Report Bradford's colour bar ballroom, the mecca owned Locarno, will be the scene of a mass protest picket on Satur...

National "Coalition" Government 1932 demands workers take pay cuts

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National Government "Economy Drive" 1932 Boss on the workers back and Ramsay MacDonald as a stable boy carrying out the orde...

People's March for Jobs 1981 - Jack Charlton (Sheffield Wednesday FC)

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POLITICS AND SPORT Jack Charlton showing his support (and Sheffield Wednesday FC) for the TUC 1981 People's March for Jobs. Du...

Labour and Clarion Swimming Club History

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National Clarion Swimming Club Much has been written about the Clarion Movement's cycling clubs, rambling clu...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Celtic Green Brigade Circa 1935 - Politics & Sport

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Frank Pitcairn reporting on the 1935 Scottish Hunger March reported that prior to the quarter final Cup game between Aberdeen and Glasgow...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Belgium Refugees WW1 - Hayes

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Belgium Refugees  H ayes Belgium Relief Fund The first immigrants Hayes Belgium Relief Fund was established at a public meeting 23r...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Churchill and the Spanish Civil War

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"I do not at all under-rate the severity of the ordeal which lies before us, but I believe our countrymen will show themselves capab...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

A Conservative Party MP support for the Blackshirts, Hitler & The Daily Mail

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Sir Thomas Moore (1886-1971) Ayr Burghs Conservative Party Member of Parliament 1925-1964 Participated in the British expeditionary Fo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Daily Mail report of a German Nazi rally 1935

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Daily Mail report of a German Nazi rally 1935  "This corridor of broad chests, surmounted by fine open, clear cut faces, this e...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Yiewsley & West Drayton Co-operative Society - September 1893

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Yiewsley and West Drayton Co-operative Society ( Committee 1910 ?) President: H.J. Chilton Secretary: E.Cox Yiewsley and West Drayton C...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Trade Union Banners 1894 London

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Picture with caption trade union banners at the opening of Peckham Rye Park 1894 It would be interesting to check the local newspaper re...
Friday, January 10, 2014

1940 London Irish Discrimination

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Edward Hickey an Irishman living in Acton, West London in 1940 wrote to the Daily Worker 2 March 1940 in obvious anger at the way he (and m...

First Socialist Public Meeting in Hillingdon

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First Socialist Public Meeting in Hillingdon In July 1907 The London Standard announced that the London Clarion Scouts planned an “invas...

Southall & Hayes and the Spanish Civil War

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In July 1936 A.J. Murphy of Beresford Road, Southall wrote a very incisive letter to the Advertiser stating “The Spanish people are defe...