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Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)
Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)
@brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS""
Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS""
Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS""
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Matthijs De Smedt
Matthijs De Smedt
@anji@metalhead.club replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@brucelawson I wonder if this is where Terry Pratchett got the name from for the unusually nasty (for his books) secret police organization the "Cable Street Particulars" in the book "Night Watch"

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Jos Dingjan
Jos Dingjan
@happydisciple@mendeddrum.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@anji @brucelawson “Cable Street Particulars” came from “Baker Street Irregulars”, apparently (see the Annotated Pratchett File, under “Maskerade”).

Cable Street itself may be named for London’s Cable Street, but who knows.

#GNUTerryPratchett

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