Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) was a prominent left-wing populist politician, who served as Governor of Louisiana (1928-1932) and as a US Senator (1932-1935). Long denounced wealthy elites and bankers; his 'Share Our Wealth' redistribution plan for...
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‘I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope...
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In 1872 many of Toronto’s print workers were working ten or more hours per day, every day, causing the Toronto Typographical Union to demand a nine-hour workday from the city’s publishers. This was part of the "Nine-Hour Movement", a demand that...
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If you like dramatics and radical thinking, you’ll love Benjamin Lay. On September 19th, 1738, Benjamin Lay, a hunchback as well as a dwarf, arrived at a Quaker meetinghouse for the biggest event of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Under his coat, he...
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Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross, (1822-1913), was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, ...
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‘Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.’ This tea towel features Benjamin Franklin: entrepreneur, scientist, diplomat, abolitionist and a Founding Father of the United...
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Here's one for all you aficionados out there of the history of socialism. The design on this tea towel is based on a diagram produced for the annual congress of the Second International, the federation of socialist parties at the end of the 19th...
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The tea towel design is inspired by Black-figure pottery, a type of Greek pottery that originated in Corinth around 700 BCE and continued to be popular until the advent of red-figure pottery in around 530 BCE. The ancient Games were staged in Olympia, ...
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will.’ The quote featured on this tea towel comes from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. At 16, Brontë was told to give up her dreams of being a writer because...
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‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.’ Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher, and above all, a man who refused to ‘do nothing.’ His detestation of injustice and the abuse...
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“C’est une idée qui peut faire rire mais la seule façon de lutter contre la peste, c’est l’honnêteté.� “It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with common decency.� These words are from Albert Camus's...
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What is so radical about an axe-wielding king of old, you may ask? OK, so Robert the Bruce (Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis), king of Scotland from 1306 to his death in 1329, does belong to another age when the lowly peasant enjoyed few rights and even less...
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‘No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.’ That’s what Aneurin Bevan, Minister for Health in the UK (1945-1951) argued. Inspired by his vision, the Labour Party established...
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‘I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.’ Ground-breaking, radical, a… "hyena in petticoats"? In 1792, English writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft published the seminal work, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, '...
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Frances Perkins was the first woman to be appointed to the US cabinet. She served as Secretary of Labor, a position she held during the whole of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s term (1933-1945).Perkins was a workers' rights advocate who helped execute the...
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In April 2016, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe set up a camp to protest against the nearby Dakota Access Pipeline, which risked polluting the Missouri River. People from around the world came to voice their support, standing with Standing Rock...
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This feminist gift celebrates Emily Davison, one of Britain’s most famous (and radical) suffragettes. It features the cover of the Suffragette Newspaper, published the day before her funeral procession in London. Davison had died on 8th June, 1913, ...
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‘People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being...
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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African-American sociologist, activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was the first African American to gain a doctorate at Harvard. He argued that...
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For the English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane, art ‘was at once creative and adaptive, capable of lifting men's thoughts on to the loftiest plane.’ And that’s what he used it to do. The first half of his career was dedicated to...
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The image is based on a watercolour by French artist Jean-Pierre Houël ‘Storming of the Bastille’. This was an event that occurred in Paris, France on the afternoon of 14 July 1789, when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval...
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.' And now it was Jane Austen’s turn. Throughout her 41 years Austen wrote just six novels, including Sense and Sensibility and Emma, but these have been subject to two hundred years of...
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"One of those uncommon geniuses, that spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things". These words by William Henry Harrison, who went on to become the ninth US president, describe his adversary, ...
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‘There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.’ In 19th century England, where women were expected to be silent, Virginia Woolf let her mind and voice be free. And it was pretty radical: experimental novels, ...
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