Kennington Common News Today

A review of Professor Christopher Clark's new book Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-49

She once struggled for recognition. But now – with a floral tube map, a top award and a Heathrow airport commission involving asylum seekers – the British-Jamaican artist is finally getting her dues

Letters: <strong>James McCarthy </strong>celebrates the late designer who campaigned to put black heroes on stamps. Plus recommendations from <strong>Marietta Crichton Stuart, Owen Knight </strong>and<strong> Jackie King</strong>

With its errors, distortions, bias, and evasion, Tate Britains rehang is a shameful account of the British and their art

Christopher Clark’s magnificent new book, Revolutionary Spring, lays out the forces behind the European upheavals of 1848–9

The silk garment is believed to have been worn under King Charles Is shirt on the day that he was beheaded outside Londons Banqueting House in 1649.

I am here this day to support the National Petition and the People’s Charter because it demands universal suffrage, because it gives them (the people) a vote in the choice of representatives. Is it too much for those who produce all the food, all the clothing, all the luxuries of life, who fig

It had been agreed one of the roads would be called Josiah Heapy Close, after a teenager who was killed by soldiers while taking part in the protests, but it was erroneously called Joseph Heapy Close.

Chartism: The worlds first working-class movement

A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British ruling class used racism to divide an increasingly multi-ethnic working class.