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#OnThisDay 1645: Parliamentarians formed the New Model Army to fight the Royalists in the English Civil War. Its soldiers, many of whom held radical and dissenting views, were full-time professionals rather than part-time militia.

“Women, we must do the work ourselves. We must have an independent women’s movement...”

The Women’s Social and Political Union - the leading women’s suffrage campaign group - was formed #OnThisDay 1903 at the home of the Pankhursts.

The Chimney Sweepers and Chimney Regulation Act, which made it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to sweep chimneys, was passed #OnThisDay 1840. The Act was largely ignored due to the lack of any means of enforcement, and children younger than 10 continued to climb chimneys.

#OnThisDay 1931: MPs voted down a bill, introduced by Labour MP Archibald Church, which would have paved the way for the compulsory sterilisation of “mental defectives.” Similar laws were passed in the early 1930s in the U.S. and, with the most terrible consequences, in Germany.

“High purchasing power can be maintained through good wages, social services and taxation which bears less heavily on lower income groups. But money and savings lose their value if prices rise so the prices of the necessities of life will be controlled.” — Labour manifesto, 1945.

#OnThisDay 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, sailors on 16 Royal Navy ships anchored at Spithead staged a mutiny in pursuit of better pay and conditions. The mutineers eventually negotiated an agreement that saw a Royal pardon for all crews and a pay rise for sailors.

“We raise the watch-word liberty;
We will, we will, we will be free!”

The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset rural labourers who were arrested for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society, were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia #OnThisDay 1834.

#OnThisDay 1645: Parliamentarians formed the New Model Army to fight the Royalists in the English Civil War. Its soldiers, many of whom held radical and dissenting views, became full-time professionals rather than part-time militia.

"All those who care at all about the expression of advanced opinion should take warning, and remember that it is no use standing aside to be eaten up last."

William Morris on free speech, 1886.

John Hampden, Civil War-era Parliamentary leader famous for his opposition to Charles I over ship money, died #OnThisDay 1643 from wounds sustained in a skirmish with Royalists. In the early 19th c., British radicals named their debating societies ‘Hampden Clubs’ in his honour.