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Rebel Footprints by David Rosenberg
New edition of the indispensable radical walking guide to London
REBEL FOOTPRINT: The Savoy Hotel, site of the palace destroyed during the Peasants’ Revolt [Loco Steve/Creative Commons]

DAVID ROSENBERG has demolished an assumption and disrupted a habit.

I always assumed that my knowledge of London’s dissenting tradition was adequate but incomplete, but this revised edition of his Rebel Footprints exposes my ignorance of key aspects of even the better-known episodes in the city’s radical history.

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