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Born #OnThisDay 1884: Rona Robinson, the first woman in the UK to gain a first-class degree in chemistry and one of the first documented female industrial chemists. Robinson was also a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union.

"There was no man born marked by God above another." Richard Rumbold, soldier & political radical, was executed #OTD 1685 for his part in Argyll’s Rising. Associated with the Levellers during the Civil Wars, Rumbold was later involved in the 1683 plot to assassinate Charles II.

"Speak the truth and only then can you be free of your chains." Thomas Flamank and Michael An Gof, two leaders of the Cornish Rebellion, were hanged, beheaded and quartered #OnThisDay 1497.

"Come and swell the song, Silent now so long — England is risen! — and the day is here." Edward Carpenter, socialist poet, writer and early activist for gay rights, died #OnThisDay 1929.

"To unite the productive classes of the community in one common bond of union..." The National Association for the Protection of Labour, an early attempt at creating a general trade union of all trades, was constituted by Irish-born John Doherty in Manchester #OnThisDay 1830.

"Give me the man as a friend and a neighbour Who toils at the loom – with the spade – or the plough; Who wins his diploma of manhood by labour, And purchases wealth by the sweat of his brow." John Bedford Leno, Chartist poet, was born in Uxbridge #OnThisDay 1826.

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), an alliance of lesbians and gay men who supported the National Union of Mineworkers during the strike of 1984–1985, was formed #OnThisDay 1984. By the end of the strike, 11 LGSM groups had emerged throughout the UK.

James Townsend, Whig politician, died #onthisday 1787. Townsend, who was the descendant of a black woman from West Africa, is believed to be England's first black Member of Parliament and the first black Lord Mayor of London.

The first ever Gay #Pride march in the UK took place in London #OnThisDay 1972. Only 700-2,000 people turned up as many feared they would be arrested, beaten up, sacked from their job or evicted from their flat if they attended.

"It turned out to be remarkable but it didn’t seem remarkable when I did it." Nicholas Winton, an ardent socialist who supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WW2, died aged 106 #OnThisDay 2015.

"The parliamentary franchise shall be the same for men and women..." The Equal Franchise Act, which gave women electoral equality with men, became law #OnThisDay 1928. The Act added five million more women to the electoral roll.

"Awake! Arise! Arm yourselves with truth, justice, reason. Lay siege to corruption. Claim as your inalienable right, universal suffrage and annual parliaments." Thomas Spence, English revolutionary who advocated the common ownership of land, was born #OnThisDay 1750.

The Cotton Mills & Factories Act, the first Act of Parliament that attempted to regulate the hours and conditions of children in the cotton industry, became law #OTD 1819. The Act forbade the employment of children under 9; children aged 9-16 were limited to 12 hrs work per day.

"This is a triumph for the people." Keir Hardie, socialist and co-founder of the Labour Party, was elected MP for West Ham South #OnThisDay 1892.

"Everyone - rich and poor, man, woman or child - can use it or any part of it." The National Health Service, part of a programme of legislation enacted by the 1945-50 Labour government, was launched #OnThisDay 1948.

#OnThisDay 1945: Voters in the United Kingdom and those serving overseas went to the polls in the first general election for ten years. The result was a landslide victory for Clement Attlee's Labour Party. LAB: 47.7% (+9.7) CON: 36.2% (-11.6) LIB 9.0% (+2.3)

#OTD 1888: Women and girls working at Bryant and May's match factory in Bow, London, went on strike over poor working conditions. Low pay for a 14-hour day was cut even further if workers talked or went to the toilet, and bone cancer caused by white phosphorus was common.

"The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he..." Thomas Rainsborough, republican officer who served in Parliament’s army & navy in the English Civil War, was born #OTD 1610. Rainsborough was the highest-ranking officer to support the Levellers.

One of Britain’s first non-white MPs was elected #OnThisDay 1892 when Dadabhai Naoroji won the Central Finsbury seat for the Liberals. Naoraji was a founding member of the Indian National Congress, a political party that has dominated Indian politics since independence in 1947.

The Battle of Sedgemoor, the last engagement between the Kingdom of England and rebels led by the Duke of Monmouth, was fought #OTD 1685. Despite recruiting an army of mostly nonconformists, artisans & farm workers, the Monmouth rebellion failed and Monmouth was executed.