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The first know visit of the Clarion Van to Dronfield, Derbyshire
Thursday 16th June 1898
The Clarion van visited again in October 1909 and for four days in July 1910
Edward Carpenter lived close by at Totley (also an early anarchist Colony…Read more…
Ragged Trouser Philanthropist
Social Democratic Federation (SDF) cycling into town to spread the gospel of socialism
A tactic pioneered and used wildly by the Clarion Cycling Club
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“By retaining one’s childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.”
George OrwellRead more…
Workers Union Organisers London 1914
George Dallas
Jack Watts
C W Gibson
W T Kelly
Tom MacNamaraRead more…
Founding of the Clarion Cycling Club first Branch Birmingham Clarion Cycling Club Monday 26th February 1894
Arbeiter-Radfahrer-Bund “Solidarity”The RKB was founded in Offenbach am Main in 1896 as the “Solidarity Workers-Cyclists Association”.The federal RKB office was initially located in Chemnitz, in 1907 the association moved its headquarters to Offe…Read more…
Clarion Field Clubs
Harry Lowerison founder and organiser.
The Clarion Field Clubs were part of the wider Clarion Movements attempt to encourage a knowledge of nature and wildlife
Lowerison ran the progressive Ruskin School at Heacham, King’s Lyn…Read more…
The Angel Hotel, North Walsham, Norfolk – which on 20th July 1906 hosted the inaugural meeting of George Edwards Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers & Small Holders Union
Headquarters 1910 Wensum House4 Dereham Road, Hempton, Fake…Read more…
SDF Fifteenth Annual Conference
Birmingham
4th August 1895 Labour Church Hall
Bond Street
Social Democratic Federation
Blackburn, Burnley, Birmingham, Chorley, Coventry, Salford, Darwen, Grimsby, Hanley, Lincoln, Northampton, Reading,Roc…Read more…
Karl Liebknecht the great German socialist orator spoke at a Social Democratic Federation (SDF) meeting in Southampton in May 1896 at St Mary’s Hall, Southampton May 1896 “They were one people striving to overcome capitalism & despotism”&…Read more…
September .1944 THE LAND WORKER
Journal National Agricultural Workers Union
Wilfred Willett
Workers Music Association
Rural Folk Songs