A city of two halves.
A century ago, Bath was, as today, popular for its Roman Baths and Georgian terraces. Although hidden from its genteel visitors, it was also an important industrial city with an extensive coal mining area in its hinterland. Unsurprisingly then, it played a prominent role in the 1926 General Strike.
In Standfast and Solid, Trevor Turpin vividly tells the story of that tumultuous period when mining families were brought to near starvation and when trade unionists and many of the good people of Bath came to their support.
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