Britain's Revolutionary Summer : The General Strike of 1926
by
Edd Mustill
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
183643068X
ISBN-13
9781836430681
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Imprint
Oneworld Publications
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 9th, 2026
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
334 grams
Dimensions
13.30 x 21.50 x 2.60 cms
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A new history of Britain's first – and only – general strike
Midnight, 30 April 1926. Mineowners lock out a million miners. In response, British workers across the country down their tools. Britain’s first General Strike has begun. The government feared that the country was teetering on the brink of revolution. Trade union leaders thought they’d be shot by the end of the week. For nine days, trains, buses and trams stopped running. Lorries could only leave the docks protected by military convoy. In Birmingham, the police hunted down city councillors, and in London they raided trade union headquarters. And for those in the coalfields, from South Wales to Scotland, the strike would not last nine days, but nine months. On the strike’s centenary, Edd Mustill tells the story of why millions of workers came out on strike, and why the government did all it could to quash them.
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