Radical Local History Links

Overview

Graham Stevenson

http://graham.thewebtailor.co.uk/archives/000046.html

Mary Wollstonecraft E text of vindication of the rights of women

http://feminism.eserver.org/history/wollstonecraft-vindication.txt

Picture the Past: photos of East Midlands and links to other sites

http://www.picturethepast.org.uk

Links to sites of the week

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/websw.html

Kinder Scout Mass Trespass

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,689869,00.html

Chelmsford Trades Council – Local labour history and links

http://www.chelmsford-tuc.org.uk/

Bristol Radical History Group

http://brh.org.uk/home.htm

Society for the study of labour history

http://www.sslh.org.uk/

Radical History Review Journal

http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm

Local Celebrations and Commemorations

Guardian Article on Radical History

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329536582-107971,00.html

Burford Levellers Day

http://www.levellers.org.uk/

Raise Your Banners Festival

http://www.raiseyourbanners.org/

Radical Songs

Union Songs http://unionsong.com

Week 1

Pentrich

Pentrich Historical Society: Pentrich Revolution records, lists of names and annual walk

http://www.pentrich.org.uk

http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/riots/pentrich.html

Luddites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/luddites.htm

Week 2

Derby lock-out mural descried by derby city council

http://www.derby.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/1A87C455-E1BC-4EBD-8AAF-CC0D127E02A2/0/TheDerbyLock5.pdf

Tolpuddle

http://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/

Tolpuddle Annual Festival

http://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/tuc-11629-f0.cfm

Derby Riots 1831

http://www.youandyesterday.co.uk/articles/1800s:_Rioting_over_the_right_to_vote

Week 3

Statue of Fergus O’Connor

http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/NM/SB0077.htm http://www.nottingham21.co.uk/parks_arboretum_106.htm

Single or Return: History of TSSA

http://www.tssa.org.uk/about/single-or-return/index.htm

Week 4

The Strange Case of Alice Wheeldon

http://www.pilloriedandreviled.co.uk/html/alice_wheeldon.html

Alice Wheeldon’s Ghost

http://www.derbycity.com/ghosts/ghost-01.html

Lloyd George, F.E. Smith and the trial of Alice Wheeldon

http://www.britannica.com/magazine/article?query=%22Daily+Sketch%22&id=3

Week 5

Richard Bell MP Derby 1900-1910

http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-BELL-RIC-1859.html

Syndicalism in South Wales: The Origins of The Miners’ Next Step

http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/History/Nextstep.html

Britain’s Practical Revolutionaries

http://www.geocities.com/ruskinite/bpr.html

Week 6

General Strike

http://www.unionhistory.info/generalstrike

Week 7

Week 8

Link to coal not dole song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB8ublmImNU

Week 9

Community Charge Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Charge

Anti-Poll Tax History by Militant

http://www.militant.org.uk/PollTax.html

ITV Footage

http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=200510081953085

Week 10

Bass’ Rec Protest

http://www.veggies.org.uk/fin/ned6b.htm#dtc

http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no8/camping.html

Nine Ladies Protest Site

http://www.bilstonglen-abs.org.uk/r/nineladies/

http://druidnetwork.org/sacredsites/nineladies/index.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2004/11/301742.html?c=on

http://pages.zoom.co.uk/~nineladies/gall_01.htm

Protestor’s Death

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1861573.stm

Greenham Common History

http://www.greenham-common.org.uk

Greenham Common History protest

http://www.greenham-common.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=greenham&f=generic_theme%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&%3dtheme_record_id=wb%2dwb%2dpeacefulprotest_takingastand