General Strike NowMay 3

Former history teacher Glynn Wales starts our coverage of the 100th anniversary of the General Strike by telling the story of what the Echo called ...

“EVERY second shop in Newgate Street, the main street in Bishop Auckland, shuttered up and the shopkeeper ruined,” wrote the town’s prospective MP Hugh Dalton in his diary 100 years ago.#BishopAuckland #HughDalton #WinstonChurchill #StanleyBaldwin #CountyDurham #theLabourParty #Coalmining #ArthurCook #BarnardCastle #ErnestBevin #Britishcoal #theGeneralStrike
Were the miners "hopelessly defeated" in the Great Strike of 100 years ago?

Were the miners "hopelessly defeated" in the Great Strike of 100 years ago?

“EVERY second shop in Newgate Street, the main street in Bishop Auckland, shuttered up and the shopkeeper ruined,” wrote the town’s prospective MP Hugh...

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... General Strike That Shook Britain David Torrance. Bloomsbury, pp.288, 20. Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926 Jonathan Schneer. OUP, pp.432, ...#ajcook #british20th-centuryhistory #economics #ernestbevin #georgev #miners #politics #ramsaymacdonald #stanleybaldwin #tradeunions #waltercitrine
Why the General Strike of 1926 could never succeed | The Spectator Australia
Why the General Strike of 1926 could never succeed

Although it may be in bad taste to have a favourite story about the General Strike of May 1926, one…

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDDec 6
After Japan's surrender in #WWII, Britain sent 26,000 troops to #Vietnam. Orders were simple: Help France regain its colony by stomping Vietnamese nationalists. #ThisDayInHistory soldiers wrote #ErnestBevin to ask why they were working with Japanese occupiers to crush Vietnamese.