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  #OnThisDay in London's musical history, 1980: The Greater London Council orders a halt to the plans of American punk-destructo band, the Plasmatics, to blow up a car onstage tonight.

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  It’s Lammas Day! In the traditional rural calendar, Lammas Day signalled the annual shift from planting crops to grazing animals. It was the last day on which grass was cut for hay, and the day grazing could commence and the hunting season began. ‘The Glorious Twelfth’ – the first day for shooting grouse – is in fact Lammas Day, pushed eleven days back by the UK’s transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian in 1752. The right to cut hay and graze animals on certain fields extended to...

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  #OnThisDay in lesbian herstory: the first Lesbian Strength march took place in London, 1981.

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  #OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1801: a mini-riot in Wych St (Aldwych), as a crowd attack a house where surgeons are dissecting bodies. Corpses of executed criminals were handed over for dissection; friends of the deceased often fought for them to be buried without being dismembered For more on the battle between medical establishment and the 'mob' over the bodies of the hanged, see: https://wp.me/p74yfw-iT

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  #OnThisDay in London's radical history: Police kill Blair Peach during anti-fascist demo, Southall, 1979. https://wp.me/p74yfw-7l Blair’s partner Celia Stubbs has campaigned for years to get justice & expose police actions: as a result she was targeted by #spycops Her statement to the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing: https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UCPI0000034309.pdf