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#OnThisDay in London's satirical history: the mock election for the fictional post of Mayor of Garratt held, Wandsworth, 1761. A rowdy drunken send up of the electoral process, virtually the entire population was excluded from voting in ‘real’ elections wp.me/p74yfw-Bh

May 20, 2025, 7:26 AM

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