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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It was about time somebody said this, and said it so clearly.
James Talarico responds to AOC calling woke 1.0 crazy, policing people's language is performative politics, and it stops you from building a coalition
“I do think that there was a rise in performative politics in people who are more concerned about using the right words, usually determined by academia”
“Those are unifying values that we all agree on.”
“But when you start policing people's language, when you start judging people because they're not up on the right terminology, you're no longer building a coalition to address those real problems”
“you're performing a kind of politics that's about your own intellectual and emotional needs and not about actually making change.”
w/ @jamestalarico
Reading the Putney Debates is still marvellous - the language, the politics, the cut and thrust.
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…
Suddenly this is topical.
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
If the train is slow and you peer through the windows, you can still see the remains of the Victorian shops opened up for pedestrians.
Important book. Why 17th century history matters.
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James Talarico responds to AOC calling woke 1.0 crazy, policing people's language is performative politics, and it stops you from building a coalition
“I do think that there was a rise in performative politics in people who are more concerned about using the right words, usually determined by academia”
“Those are unifying values that we all agree on.”
“But when you start policing people's language, when you start judging people because they're not up on the right terminology, you're no longer building a coalition to address those real problems”
“you're performing a kind of politics that's about your own intellectual and emotional needs and not about actually making change.”
w/ @jamestalarico
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Judy Cox - Lady Insurrectionists
Women, Reform and Revolution in Victorian Britain
À paraître en novembre chez Verso
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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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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…
