Learning From History

It is nearly 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre and The Radical Tea Towel Company is reminding us of this.
I was taught British and Economic and Social History by Edgar Alan Basset a radical Welsh Socialst who was passionate about fairness and justice.
As a local Coucillor he would share his views and outside of school I loved to hear him declaim, for that's what he did, about current events and point out the metaphor from history.
I tried to talk to him last about the National Guard in the USA after the shootings at Kent State University. Sadly he had moved after his house was demolished for a road widening scheme on a by-pass that's since been by- passed.
History Repeats Itself First as Tradgedy Second as Farce - Karl Marx. 
Just trawl the news feeds and thing of the historic analogies.
See the Radical Tea Towel Company's Peterloo Tea Towel here:
https://www.radicalteatowel.co.uk/tea-towels/peterloo-massacre-tea-towel?utm_source=Radical+Tea+Towel+Customers&utm_campaign=e5b3c792e3-Suffrajitsu3-August-2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4ee5860bc-e5b3c792e3-171364869