Pub sign points to political fight

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK) | July 8, 2006 | Copyright

It was a cause that stirred a nation, nearly dislodged a prime minister and has since saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Taken up by parliamentarians, journalists, businessmen, trade unionists, novelists, playwrights, clergymen, caricaturists and music-hall performers, it sparked public meetings, street demonstrations and condemnations that opponents were friends of villainy.

Today it is still commemorated in English idiom, in names of streets and ships, in statues and plaques, in the logo of London Transport and in the gym shoes of British schoolchildren. But few probably know what all ...

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