The Brown Dog riots

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I've been doing some work on a forthcoming report on historic suburbs.

There's a fair bit of interesting stuff from EH here:

http://www.helm.org.uk/server/show/nav.11273


However, one fascinating piece of our nation's history I have learned a little more about is the case of the Brown Dog statue:

http://www.batterseapark.org/html/browndog.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair


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It involved the infiltration of University of London medical lectures by Swedish women activists, pitched battles between medical students and the police, police protection for the statue of a dog, a libel trial at the Royal Courts of Justice, and the establishment of a Royal Commission....