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- Edith Garrud: The Tiny Suffragette Who Taught Women to Throw Policemen
Detectives had come up from Scotland Yard and police had the hall surrounded. Most of what they knew about holding off a grown man had come, one way or another, from a woman in London An Islington People's Plaque marks her old home at 60 Thornhill Square. home determined to sell Londoners a mixed self-defence system he called Bartitsu. It was an advantage nobody saw coming, the same trick that made wiry little instructors like Francois
- The Jarrow March: 200 Men, 291 Miles and the Petition Parliament Shrugged Off
For some of the men the march was the best they'd eaten in years. It now hangs in the Museum of the Home. home on Guy Fawkes Day to a hero's welcome. Calder remembered that some of the wives had to borrow clothes from neighbours to come out and meet them Cornelius Whalen What work did come to Jarrow came from elsewhere.
- They Shall Not Pass: The Battle of Cable Street and the Day the East End Stopped Mosley
The Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, said no. The Jewish establishment told people to stay at home. By some accounts four were left there. The locals had seen that coming. Some had come by coach and had their windows put in on the way.
- Candy Darling: The Real Story Behind Two Lou Reed Songs
Her mother's rule was blunt: don't come back until after dark, and don't let the neighbours see. De Niro Before Warhol ever entered the picture, Jackie Curtis had already written Candy a starring role Finding the Factory Candy met writer and producer Jeremiah Newton on a train from his home in Flushing That role moved her from off-off-Broadway obscurity into a genuine Off-Broadway run, and it's one of It's a useful corrective to the version of this story that treats 1970s downtown New York as some kind
- The Tragic Downfall of Frances Farmer: A Hollywood Starlet's Struggle with Mental Health
She excelled in Come and Get It (1936), directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, playing a dual role In 1957, a talent agent helped her secure a handful of roles, and by 1958 she'd moved to Indianapolis Her final film role came in the 1958 drama The Party Crashers. The reality is more complicated and, in some ways, more troubling. That's a different thing, and in some ways worse.
- Robert Maudsley: The Real Story Behind Britain's 'Hannibal the Cannibal'
six months old, he and three of his siblings were placed in Nazareth House, a Catholic-run children's home “Once I was locked in a room for six months and my father only opened the door to come in to beat me, He hid the body under his bed and tried, unsuccessfully, to get other prisoners to come in. He wrote to the Home Secretary about it. He wrote to the Queen. He says he never got a reply. The nickname comes from a rumour that he ate part of a fellow inmate's brain during his second killing
- The O’Halloran Sisters, Armed With Poles And Boiling Water, Fought For Their Land Against The Army
As tensions escalated, June of 1887 saw them poised to defend their ancestral home against the looming break of day and laid our plans, each to defend a certain point and none to waiver, whatever might come At this time I was only home a few months from America, and during my absence, I may add, I did not learn When the bailiffs approached with picks and axes we waited until they would come near enough for the “At this time some unfortunate delay occurred about handing up the water.
- The Tamla Motown Revue 1965: When Motown Toured the UK to Half-Empty Theatres
In March 1965, some of the biggest names to ever come out of Detroit squeezed onto a single coach and Why Georgie Fame Was On a Motown Bill Georgie Fame's presence puzzled some fans at the time, since he club's newsletter that British promoters shouldn't be allowed to inflict homegrown acts on fans who had come By the time the tour wound down in Paris, Gordy sent the rest of his family home and stayed on at the The Beatles soaking up American soul influences that would shape their own songwriting for years to come
- The Arrest of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: A Bread Man's Coat, a Phone Box and Four Lost Days
the police station beside him with her dog under her arm, said almost nothing and was allowed to go home The rear view of 16 Wardle Brook Avenue Brady didn't come out. So Talbot improvised. The dog didn't come round from the anaesthetic. Had the arrests come a year earlier, both could have faced the gallows. Their home was vandalised. Hate mail arrived.
- Disco Demolition Night: Was It Really About the Music, or Something Uglier?
Riot police, some of them on horseback, cleared the field in the end. Most reports give 39 arrests (some say 37) and at least nine injuries. There's some support for that. Disco really was everywhere. Nearly all of this comes from one man's memory, repeated over the years. Some people in the stands were there for a cheap night out and a laugh.
- Ronald Reagan’s Pocket Library of One Liners
Some of the lines became famous. 'No,' the old fellow admitted, 'but I must be late because everyone else is coming back!'" "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from poor judgment." "This country needs some colleges to teach everything the students think they know." President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime .
- Between Cane Fields and Concrete: Puerto Rico in the 1930s and 1940s
Relief would have to come from Washington. The New Deal Arrives Franklin D. The Photographer Who Stayed Much of what we know visually about this era comes from one couple. They liked the island so much that they decided to make it their home in 1946. Decades later he went back to rephotograph some of the same places in the 1980s. The New Deal Comes to Puerto Rico, JSTOR Daily 2. The Ponce Massacre, 1937, libcom.org 3.














