History

People gathered in St Peters Square, Manchester to remember those who died on that terrible day of 16th August 1819. There were banners and placards of different sizes being held…

On that day in 1984, the NUM had decided to have a large picket at the Orgreave coking plant. They wanted to disrupt the supply of coke from Orgreave to…

LABOUR’S FIRST YEAR J.E.D. HallPENGUIN BOOKS (1947) This can hardly be a conventional book review that might influence new sales. The book was published in 1947 and written by an…

Nearly eight years after Diana’s death in a car crash was mourned the world over, Prince Charles, her widower and heir to the British throne, weds his long time mistress, Camilla. The marriage, a…

This week Lowkey is joined by Asa Winstanley, an investigative journalist living in London, who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He hails from the south of Wales and…

On the 16th August 1819 innocent men, women and children were murdered and badly wounded when the Cavalry charged into them on horseback in St Peters Field, Manchester where they…

A debate has been sparked on the usefulness of learning Latin, after it was announced on Saturday that the government is to spend £4 million to expand the teaching of…

“On 3rd June 1892, an amendment was approved to Anfield’s company certificate, and Everton Football Club & Athletic Grounds Company Ltd became, ‘Liverpool Football Club & Athletic Grounds Company Ltd’.”

The story of Native Americans forced removal from their tribal land. On the 30th of May 1830 American President, Andrew Jackson signs ‘the Indian Removal Act’ after which the Native…

Momentum are afraid to say what everyone knows – that the ‘anti-Semitism’ crisis was a gigantic hoax Tony Greenstein The Hartlepool by-election result was not unexpected, even if the size…