30 APRIL
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27 DECEMBER
SLAVES IN JAMAICA REFUSE TO WORK FOR THEIR BRITISH SLAVE MASTERS. 27 December 1831 – a widespread slave strike occurred in the British administered island of Jamaica. A severe drought during the summer had brought increased hardship for the slave population which was compounded by the ruthlessness of the plantation owners, who insisted on their…
26 MAY
SLAVE OVERSEER’S DIARY NOTES ON A SUMMER OF DEPRAVED TORTURE [ 26 May 1756 ] Today in 1756 in Jamaica, plantation overseer Thomas Thistlewood, who was unusual in keeping meticulous notes on the punishments he meted out to the slaves under his care, noted in his diary the depraved punishment given to a hungry slave,…
25 SEPTEMBER
HUNGER STRIKER DENIED A BED, BEDDING AND EVEN HIS BOOTS, DIES FROM FORCED FEEDING [ 25 September 1917 ] Irish republican Thomas Ashe. who had taken part in Ireland’s 2016 Easter rebellion against British rule, died on Tuesday 25 September 1917, just five days into a hunger strike at Mountjoy prison, due to a complication…
3 MARCH
LAST ‘FULL-BLOODED’ ABORIGINAL TASMANIAN MAN’S DEATH AND DISSECTION [ 3 March 1869 ] Today in 1869, William Lanne, who at the time was believed to be the last ‘full-blooded’ Tasmanian man, died of cholera and dysentery, aged just 34 years. ELEVEN KENYAN POLITICAL DETAINEES MURDERED [ 3 March 1959 ] On 3 March 1959, prison…
25 OCTOBER
THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK DIES FROM HIS HUNGER STRIKE IN BRIXTON PRISON Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, died at 5.40 am on Monday 25 October 1920 on the seventy fourth day of his hunger strike at Brixton prison. His biographer, Francis Costello, remarked that the MacSwiney’s “solitary protest would be seen, in the…
16 APRIL
‘PERFIDIOUS’ HIGHLANDERS ‘MUST PERISH BY SWORD OR FAMINE’ [ 16 April 1746 ] During the autumn of 1745, Jacobite rebels, led by ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie,’ and desiring to replace the Hanoverian king George II with the prince’s catholic father, James Stuart, had marched on London, reaching as far south as Derby before they retreated to…