Speakers' Corner

Speakers' Corner ( " corner of the speaker ") is a gathering place at the northeastern end of Hyde Park in London in close proximity to Marble Arch by an act of parliament by June 27, 1872 ( Royal Parks and Gardens Regulation Act ) may everyone here without a registration hold lecture on any topic and gather the passers- by on the way. Signs point out, however, that the Queen and the royal family must not be content of a speech.

Typically, the speaker put it on a box brought to slightly increase can speak, of which the expression Soap Boxing is derived. The boxes are, well, increasingly replaced because of better transportation ability of small stepladders.

To 1783 were in the vicinity of today's Speakers' Corner, the gallows of Tyburn, so that the convicts were before their execution for the last time take a "last dying speech" the word.

Although the majority of the speakers regularly occurring is quite bizarre, Speakers' Corner also saw celebrities such as Karl Marx, Lenin and George Orwell. During the campaign, you can see there sometimes also representatives of the major parties.