"And the dream that is born in the blaze of the sun": 1926 and Coalfield Community | 1926 a Chymuned Maes Glo

Llafur’s, the Welsh People’s History Society, summer series to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike and seven-month lock-out continues. The final two sessions look at 19…

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Llafur, the Welsh People’s History Society, is holding a series of summer talks, panels and discussions on the 1926 General Strike and lock-out in Wales. The following programme of six online…

To mark the 100th anniversary of the British General Strike, a new exhibition at the University of Newcastle, reveals how workers, politicians, and trade unionists faced the challenge of the Genera…

The nine days of the General Strike in May 1926 shook the foundations of British society as over 1.5 million workers across the country downed tools. For many in the trade union movement it was a s…

The month of May marks the centenary of the General Strike that began at one minute to midnight on 3 May 1926. The following nine days shook the foundations of British society as over a million and…