It is shortly after 4am in central London and a fleet of white transit vans is pulling into parking bays. Porters bent double ...

Smithfield Market was, wrote Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, a place where 'filth and mire' rose 'nearly ankle-deep', as the 'reeking bodies of cattle' massed all around.

It was at dawn on September 28 when peasants from the Barro Branco community, in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil, left home to sell their wares at the city’s market. As they made their way out of the ...

This is modern-day activism, but is no less effective or significant for that. The petition that Mr Westwood launched – ...

Once again, I look to the BBC’s drama Wolf Hall: the Mirror and the Light for inspiration and a reminder of some of the less ...

Education should promote deep inquiry and individual autonomy, but often, it has been used as a vehicle for indoctrination.

A detail from a painting by Jean Froissart of Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Image via Wikimedia. So, the election of Donald Trump and likely coronation of ...

The future of Smithfield Market in London hangs in the balance after almost 800 years. A vote in the City of London on ...

Counterrevolutionaries were seizing this weak point of the revolution to foment revolt. Plebian and peasant revolutionary ...

After the Tweed Army invaded the capital accusing Labour of a class war, Mirror columnist Brian Reade points out they're only being asked to pay for the damage caused by party they supported in the fi ...

To gain a better understanding of how Poland gained independence, visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum. This attraction, which sits in a former tram power station in the Wola district, is home to ...