The V-1 was the inaugural Vergeltungswaffen (V-weapon) used for London’s terror bombing. The Luftwaffe developed it at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in 1939 during the e… Read More

Cyclists outside the Angel Inn of Thames Ditton, near London. Andrew RitchieKnown today as Cycling UK, the organisation is now a charity but it was founded as the Bicycle Touring Club 14… Read More

Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973) was an Austrian photographer who studied at the Bauhaus. Born Edith Suschitzky, she came from a left wing Jewish background and fled rising fascism to move… Read More

The currently empty shop at 318 New Cross Road, next door to the New Cross House, was an important location in the 'Battle of Lewisham' forty years ago this weekend, when ant-fascist demonst… Read More

I wrote the first draft of this post last weekend, when conference was just beginning. I am now more optimistic about some of these things than I was then, but less optimistic about others… Read More