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Radical Tea Towel Alice Paul Tea Towel

Alice Paul (1885-1977) was a women's rights activist, suffragist and significant leader in the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which first granted women the right to vote in 1920. Following the success of the campaign,... ... more

Radical Tea Towel ¡No Pasarán! Tea Towel

Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, known as 'La Pasionaria' ('the Passionflower'), was a Spanish Republican heroine and a communist politician of Basque origin, remembered particularly for her famous slogan ¡No Pasarán! ('They shall not pass') from a speech... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Virginia Woolf Tea Towel

‘There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.’ In 19th century England, where women were expected to be silent, Virginia Woolf let her mind and voice be free. And it was pretty radical: experimental novels,... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Family Tree of Socialism Tea Towel

Here's one for all you aficionados out there of the history of socialism. The design on this tea towel is based on a diagram produced for the annual congress of the Second International, the federation of socialist parties at the end of the 19th... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Frederick Douglass Tea Towel

‘What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.’ How does a slave born on a plantation in deeply racist 19th century America go on to be nominated for vice-president of the United States? Just ask Frederick... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Rebecca Riots Tea Towel

Axe-wielding Welshmen dressed as women: no, this is not just a normal night out in Swansea. The early 19th century was a tough time for farming communities in the south west of Wales. Of an evening, farm labourers would disguise themselves as women and... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Walt Whitman Tea Towel

Now known as one of the most significant American writers of the 19th century, and perhaps the nation’s greatest poet, Walt Whitman started off working as an apprentice printer at a newspaper, at only 11 years of age. In 1838, he founded his own... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Standing Rock Tea Towel

In April 2016, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe set up a camp to protest against the nearby Dakota Access Pipeline, which risked polluting the Missouri River. People from around the world came to voice their support, standing with Standing Rock... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Socialist Sunday School Tea Towel

Socialist Sunday Schools were set up as an alternative to Christian Sunday Schools, first in Great Britain and then in the US. The first Socialist Sunday School in the US was established in New York in 1880 by the Socialist Labor Party of America.... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Charles Darwin Tea Towel

What’s revolutionary thinking? Evolutionary thinking. Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking theory was published in 1859, set out in his book ‘On the Origin of Species.’ In it, he proposed a radical theory of evolution by natural selection. This was... ... more

Radical Tea Towel Benjamin Lay Tea Towel

If you like dramatics and radical thinking, you’ll love Benjamin Lay. On September 19th, 1738, Benjamin Lay, a hunchback as well as a dwarf, arrived at a Quaker meetinghouse for the biggest event of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Under his coat, he... ... more