On this day, 23 February 1932, a riot broke out on Old Market Street in Bristol as part of a protest against the government’s 10% cut to unemployment benefits in the middle of the Great Depression. Estimates range between three and fifteen thousand people had been taking part in a demonstration organised by the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement (NUWM) when police ambushed them on Old Market Street by charging out of a cinema in which they’d been hiding. However, the demonstrators fought back leading to riots in Old Market and the surrounding areas. Refusing to be cowed by police violence, the NUWM organised a mass meeting for that evening, which resulted in more clashes with police.
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Feb 22
““You… little… pussy.” That’s what my old man called me. Its like it was my name. And I proved him right. By killin’ all the wrong people. I love you, Henry. I’ll never call you anything but your name. But you gotta decide. Are you gonna lay there, swallow that blood in your mouth? Or, you gonna stand up, spit it out, and go spill theirs?”
— Henry’s dad, Hardcore Henry (via radioblueheart)
Thinking about how the Russian word for “comrade” isn’t actually nearly as stilted and formal-sounding in the language itself and would be more accurately translated as companion/fellow/pal/partner (the whole point of it is that it’s a gender-neutral informal form of address that makes no distinction by gender or social class or profession), and how much that simple mistranslation turned viral has done to shape the perception of people living in Soviet times as these fanatical overly stilted communist caricatures
A map illustrating the complexity, viciousness, and chaos of the English Civil Wars, also known as the War of the Three Kingdoms (England, Scotland, and Ireland) between 1642 and 1651. The roots of the conflicts stemmed from the contrasting aspirations of how the three interconnected kingdoms (ruled by the same monarch - Charles I and, later, his son and successor, Charles II) on the British Isles should be governed. Amongst the various players who opposed the supporters of the monarchy were the Parliamentarians in England, Covenanters in Scotland, and Confederates in Ireland.
