Strike! – The 1926 General Strike in Gloucester

An afternoon of talks to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, featuring authors Tony Conder and Stuart Butler of BRHG pamphlet: A Tale of Two Towns: Nine days in Gloucester and Stroud, May 1926

The event will consist of three talks, looking into details of the General Strike in Gloucestershire.

• 1pm: Stuart Butler – ‘Stroud and the General Strike’. How did Stroud‘s workers respond to the Strike Call? Stuart’s talk will look at the strike in the Stroud area and stretch up the railway line to Swindon.
• 2pm: Nigel Costly – ‘Shirley Bliss and the Gloucester Strike Bulletin’. Gloucester was rare in having a newspaper published to tell the strikers side of the story. The Bulletin’s publication was due to Edmund Shirley Bliss who had been victimized after a previous strike. With no work he established a co-operative printers sympathetic to the labour movement. Gloucester’s Strike Bulletin will go online as it was published 100 years ago.
• 3pm: Tony Conder – ‘Gloucester Action and Reaction’. The story of the strike in Gloucester and the reaction of the police, corporation and business after the strike had finished.

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