Speakers Corner has been a place of assembly for those battling for their rights since the middle of the 19th Century.  It was here that the Chartists, the Reform League, the May Day demonstrators and the Suffragettes held many of their greatest battles, tens of millions have assembled here and many have won reforms!

This section will provide a comprehensive documentary resource for those who want to investigate this place, the first space on earth where Free Speech was guaranteed. Visit the Speakers' Corner History Gallery!

• Tyburn Hangings and Speakers Corner (John Roberts' PhD thesis on Speakers Corner)

• The Anti Church Movement Demonstration at Hyde Park (Two articles by Karl Marx)

• Free Speech and Speakers Corner (By Leslie Jones)

• William Morris and Speakers Corner (By Leslie Jones)

• Lenin at Speakers Corner (By N. Krupskaya, Lenin's wife)

• The Hunger Marches and Speakers Corner (By Leslie Jones and Bob Edwards MP)

• Freedom of the Park (By George Orwell)

• Police Spies at Speakers Corner (By Heiko Khoo)

Coming Soon:

• The Reform League and the First International (Documents of the 1st International)

• The Paris Commune and Speakers Corner

• The Battle for Speakers Corner (By Lord Palmerston et al, Hansard Parliamentary Debates 1866)

• Trotskyism and Hyde Park (By Heiko Khoo)

• Reminiscences of Hyde Park (By Frank Ridley)

• The Hyde Park Movement in China (By Heiko Khoo)

• Speakers' Corners Around the World (By Heiko Khoo)

• The Significance of Hyde Park
  (excerpts from "A Call to Action" by Rev. Lord Donald Soper)