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Table football (futbolín). Classic version invented by Galician anarchist poet Alejandro Finisterre. While convalescing in Montserrat, Catalonia after bomb wound in Madrid in 1936, he felt sorry amputee kids couldn't play football so he came up with idea. theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/…

❤️🧵 (Every now and then something happens that reminds me why I love Bristol)

#OtD 14 Jul 1896 Spanish anarchist, rail mechanic & Civil War fighter Buenaventura Durruti was born. Involved in strikes, uprisings and bank robberies across Europe and Latin America, he was killed in Madrid during the civil war. 500k attended his funeral stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8575/b…

#OtD 14 Jul 1912 influential populist US folk musician Woody Guthrie was born. Guthrie chronicled the difficult conditions faced by working class Oklahomans during the Dust Bowl and spoke out against class inequality and fascism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8576/w…

In the 1950s, a small village named Moreton was levelled and flooded to create Chew Valley Lake, just outside of Bristol. Most buildings were demolished but it is still possible to see the remains of walls, roads and even gardens, submerged for almost 70 years beneath the water.

Embroidery in violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, who embroidered the signatures of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, to highlight the women's suffrage cause,1912 #WomensArt

Small Faces “Talk To You” Filmed in my house!! 🎸🎯🎸

Orgreave inquiry set to finally take place 👇 theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt

This is a magnificent victory for all the tireless campaigning of #OTJC. Pressure has to continue from us all to ensure that this inquiry has access to all documents and can summons all necessary witnesses so that we can get to the truth. We stand with you. Solidarity!

Major victory for organised labour!

'The Woodcutter and the Bees' - another beautiful and little known painting by Evelyn Dunbar, spring 1933

Please R P Chloé Nelkin Consulting

Henrietta Smith Bowers Duterte was the first female undertaker in the United States. She Used Coffins to Help Free Enslaved People. —Henrietta was born free in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1817. One of 13 children, she went on to become the first practicing female mortician in the

A door knocker from Florence, Italy, crafted around the Renaissance.

On this day in 1972 five London dockers were imprisoned for picketing, and freed after a mass upswell of solidarity from across the labour movement. 250,000 people took part in strike action, and the dockers were released.

#OnThisDay 1984. The first national conference of Women Against Pit Closures is held at Northern College.

20 years 💔 Thinking of Jean’s family today. Never forget how Metropolitan Police covered up their murder of this innocent man and promoted and pensioned his killers.

#OtD 22 Jul 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist militant and theorist, London ice cream seller, mechanic and member of the Naples section of the International Working Men's Association, died after six years of fascist house arrest at the age of 78 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7864/e…