Some Links to relevant stuff!

I thought i'd post some links for websites i have been looking at recently...

I was thinking about Mill life and working conditions and stumbled on some of the people who helped fight for the workers rights. Some familiar and some unfamiliar, Tom Maguire was a working class lad from Leeds, a socialist and a poet. He was instrumental in setting up the Leeds socialist party and helped set up the Gas workers strikes in Leeds. He had links to William Morris and Fredrick Engles. I'm really liking the political activism of the time, lot's of great thinkers and academics and artists of that period were reacting against the social conditions and encouraging the working people to fight for their rights.... Lots of food for thought...