Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of Tom Mann
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ALT This is a sepia toned newspaper page featuring a headline, "Power struggle," from "The Illustrated London News," March 1972 issue. The image shows a group of strikers and police officers gathered at Saltley coke dept. Several uniformed officers are visible in the foreground, facing the crowd. The text discusses a miners' strike and related issues.
ALT Clipping from the Pall Mall Budget, featuring text above a drawing of three women match factory strikers.
ALT Clipping from the Pall Mall Budget, featuring text and a drawing of a matchmakers' home, which shows children playing outside.
ALT Clipping from the Pall Mall Budget, featuring text beside a drawing showing a woman matchmaker sitting. It is captured 'one of the strikers.'
ALT Black and white front page of the Daily Express, 14 May 1926, with the main central and left headline covering the only partial return to work following the General Strike. There is a central photograph of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin leaving Downing Street for Parliament to announce the end of the strike. Other headlines cover the railway terms, the Prime Minister's advice to employers, the 'world praise of Britain' and fighting in Warsaw.
ALT Sepia toned photographs from the Daily Mirror, 8 May 1926, showing left the milk depot in Hyde Park, and right, the Hon. C.R. Anson volunteering as an engine driver.
