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Number: 69

By: Ian Wright

Edition: 2025

ISBN: 978-1-911522-82-9

Number of pages: 288

Number of images: 38

Format: Paperback Book

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Section: BRHG Publications

Subjects: Workers Organisations & Strikes

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“We will eat the grass off the field rather than submit to 8 hours” declared William Hoare at a mass meeting of Forest of Dean miners on July 3, 1926. This is the story of those miners during the dramatic events surrounding that year’s general strike and the nine-month miners’ lockout.

In 1922, John Williams, who began working in a South Wales pit at age just thirteen, became the full-time trade union official for the Forest’s miners. Inspired by syndicalism, he believed that determined struggle could pave the way for a classless society free from exploitation.

In this detailed account, Ian Wright follows John Williams and the Forest of Dean Miners’ Association through the turbulent period of the 1920s.


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