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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." With a name like Radical Tea Towel, it would be blasphemous to leave out the OG* radical. We know you’ve heard of Karl Marx: the German......
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VOTES FOR WOMEN! This radical tea towel is based on a 1911 vintage design by Margaret Morris, intended to illustrate the song sheet of "The March of the Women," a song dedicated to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. It became the music for the......
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Climate change is the most urgent threat facing human existence today. We’re in the midst of a global crisis. And if we want to give future generations a chance to fulfil their dreams, we have to take radical action. On this tea towel, we borrow a......
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The art on this radical tea towel comes from a 1909 vintage poster advertising the ‘official’ suffragette paper, Votes for Women. Although a simple design at first glance, the poster belonged to a wider visual campaign produced by the Women’s......
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We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.’ You’ll have heard of Emmeline Pankhurst. A political activist, leader of the British suffragette movement, and the protagonist quoted in this radical tea......
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What are things that all people need to have to be fulfilled? Human Rights – and this tea towel! This tea towel echoes the style of the original published Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly......
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Here's one for all you aficionados out there of the history of socialism. The design on this tea towel is based on a diagram produced for the annual congress of the Second International, the federation of socialist parties at the end of the 19th......
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‘It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.’ This tea towel features the best known words in the Declaration of Arbroath, a......
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‘There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.’ In 19th century England, where women were expected to be silent, Virginia Woolf let her mind and voice be free. And it was pretty radical: experimental novels,......
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Love is love – say it loud and say it proud with this stunning tea towel. With so many forces attempting to create hatred and division, we believe it is more important than ever to love fully and openly. Let’s stand in solidarity with our fellow......
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‘In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.’ The quote on this tea towel comes from The Grapes of Wrath, a novel written by John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was a Nobel Prize-winning......
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It turned out to be a lot more than just a storm in a tea cup. On December 16, 1773, angry American colonists boarded a British ship and destroyed a shipment of Chinese tea that had lately arrived in Boston harbor by throwing it overboard.The object of......
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‘Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.’ A gift for those who love, those who hope, those who believe. The striking design on this tea towel combines the dove of peace and hope with the rainbow of diversity and......
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A tea towel that makes a perfect liberal gift but is sure to displease right-wingers! And a message worth bearing in mind when you're tempted to follow those diversion signs. We're still waiting for Donald Trump to order one......
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What’s revolutionary thinking? Evolutionary thinking. Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking theory was published in 1859, set out in his book ‘On the Origin of Species.’ In it, he proposed a radical theory of evolution by natural selection. This was......
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If you like dramatics and radical thinking, you’ll love Benjamin Lay. On September 19th, 1738, Benjamin Lay, a hunchback as well as a dwarf, arrived at a Quaker meetinghouse for the biggest event of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Under his coat, he......
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‘My country is the world, and my religion to do good.’ Often considered one of the founding fathers of the US, Thomas Paine was a radical political writer who emigrated to America in 1774. Two years later, he published Common Sense, a demand for......
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The tea towel design is inspired by Black-figure pottery, a type of Greek pottery that originated in Corinth around 700 BCE and continued to be popular until the advent of red-figure pottery in around 530 BCE. The ancient Games were staged in Olympia,......
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will.’ The quote featured on this tea towel comes from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. At 16, Brontë was told to give up her dreams of being a writer because......
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This tea towel celebrates Arthur Miller, one of the leading US playwrights of the 20th century, with notable works including All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible. He based this latter play on the 17th-century witchcraft trials in Salem, a......