Radicals in history: the Mayflower, Quakers, Ada Salter, Jayaben Desai. Their ideas are first defeated, but in the end they always win.
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Today in 1647 the Putney debates began between Oliver Cromwell and the army commanders and the rank and file of the New Model Army. Read here about London and Parliament following the defeat and imprisonment of Charles I thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/tow…
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Tonight! Wednesday 28th October 7.15 for 7.30 @RBHistory
" Hidden Histories: Black Tudors of the Thames Riverside"
Wednesday 28th October 7.15 for 7.30pm @RBHistory
Talk by Yvette Reinfor "Hidden Histories : Black Tudors of the Thames Riverside"
📌 Norwegian Church Albion St #SE16 7LN #rotherhithe
Members & under 18s Free Guests £3
Graham Taylor retweeted
Wednesday 28th October 7.15 for 7.30pm @RBHistory
Talk by Yvette Reinfor "Hidden Histories : Black Tudors of the Thames Riverside"
📌 Norwegian Church Albion St #SE16 7LN #rotherhithe
Members & under 18s Free Guests £3
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Freedom of Belief could be at risk in Britain due to ignorance about history and context. Find out about our new book!
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Take a train between Wapping and Rotherhithe stations and you are travelling through the world's first (now oldest) tunnel under a river. It was constructed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and father Marc. The tunnel originally opened for pedestrians in 1843 and railway in the 1860s.
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Our new book on the how and why of religious freedom in Britain is published in a few days. Everyone needs one - even Andy Burnham, who made a bad mistake this week on this very issue! Get your copy here: Freedom of Belief in Britain – Trent Witham Books
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Tomorrow, Saturday 05, is the Grunwick conference with speakers Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Dawn Butler MP, and Billy Hayes. Book a place or watch online at sandsfilms.co.uk/sands…
Tomorrow, Saturday 05, is the Grunwick conference with speakers Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Dawn Butler MP, and Billy Hayes. Book a place or watch online at sandsfilms.co.uk/sands…
Hear Yasmin Alibhai-Brown speak at the Grunwick conference at 12 noon, this Saturday morning (Sept 05), at Sands Films, Rotherhithe SE16. Book a place at: sandsfilms.co.uk/sands-films…
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Hear @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social speak at the Grunwick conference at 12 noon, this Saturday morning (Sept 05), at Sands Films, Rotherhithe SE16.
Book a place at: sandsfilms.co.uk/sands-films…
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Christine Edzard of #Rotherhithe’s Sands Films’ latest film #TheManwiththePlan starring Simon Callow is about to tour the country & has just been reviewed by Richard @NortonTaylor for the Guardian: theguardian.com/film/2026/se…
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We are delighted that sculptor @billiebondscul1 has been selected to develop the new Matchgirls Statue in East London.
Her proposal captured the solidarity, strength, energy and collective action at the heart of the Matchgirls story.
matchgirls1888.org/post/bill…
#matchgirls1888
ALT Sculpting Elizabeth Andrews OBE of Monumental Welsh Women Photo credit: Billie Bond
It's the 50th anniversary of the historic Grunwick Strike on Sat. Sept 05 at Sands Films studio in Rotherhithe. See two moving films. Hear Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on refugees, Graham Taylor on Jayaben Desai, and Brent MP Dawn Butler. Book your place now...! sandsfilms.co.uk/sands-films…
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OTD 24August 1945 death of Dr #AlfredSalter M.P.
After John Roan School he was an outstanding medical student at Guy's Hospital
Whilst living at the #BermondseySettlement he met his future wife Ada Brown & together they decided to devote their lives to the people of #Bermondsey
Jayaben Desai was voted one of the 7 most influential women in the last 50 years. After Grunwick Asian women were taken seriously @TheMusicRoomSa1 @ayeshahazarika @BillyHayesUnite @DawnButlerBrent @y_alibhai @MattJMyers @ruthepearson10
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15 August 1911 #Bermondsey Women's Uprising
Initially 12,000 women walked out of their factories & eventually 14,000 women gathered in #SouthwarkPark to hear speakers such as Mary Macarthur leader of the NatFed WomenWorkers
@SouthwarkWomen
More info here👇
southwarknews.co.uk/history/…
It was at the same time that Indians were inventing the game of chess, which also spread to the West through the Islamic civilisation.
Zero
Indian mathematicians were using zero as a placeholder in the decimal number system by around the 5th century CE.
* The mathematician Brahmagupta, writing in 628 CE, was the first known person to give formal rules for calculating with zero, including addition, subtraction and multiplication.
* The idea then travelled through the Islamic world and eventually reached Europe, where it became part of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system we use today.
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Today in 1647 the New Model Army occupied London following Parliament's decision to have it disbanded. Read here about London and Parliament following the defeat and imprisonment of Charles I thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/tow…
Amid the intense heatwave of August 1976 the Grunwick Strike broke out. The Brent MP Dawn Butler celebrated the 40th anniversary in 2016 but now it's the 50th. News of the 50th event out soon @DawnButlerBrent @crystal_balls @y_alibhai @BarryGardiner
