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Tube: Farringdon. Poverty and overcrowding were the main features of nineteenth-century Clerkenwell, and Clerkenwell Green became known in the press as "the headquarters of republicanism, revolution and ultra-non-conformity". The Green's connections with radical politics have continued into this century, and its oldest building, built as a Welsh Charity School in 1737, is now home to the Marx Memorial Library (Mon 1-6pm, Tues-Thurs 1-8pm, Sat 10am-1pm; www.marxmemoriallibrary.sageweb.co.uk), at no. 37a. One-time headquarters of the Social Democratic Federation press, this is where Lenin edited seventeen editions of the Bolshevik paper Iskra in 1902-03. The poky little back room where he worked is maintained as it was then, as a kind of shrine - you can view it along with the workerist Hastings Mural from 1935.
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