{"id":25354,"date":"2026-05-04T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=25354"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:48:09","slug":"strike-the-1926-general-strike-in-gloucester","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/strike-the-1926-general-strike-in-gloucester\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike! &#8211; The 1926 General Strike in Gloucester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-25112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT-604x854.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT-604x854.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT-332x470.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT-100x141.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT-270x382.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GS3_G-S_covers_FRONT.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/>An afternoon of talks to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, featuring authors <strong>Tony Conder and Stuart Butler <\/strong>of BRHG pamphlet<em><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/a-tale-of-two-towns\/\">A Tale of Two Towns: Nine days in Gloucester and Stroud, May 1926<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The event will consist of three talks, looking into details of the General Strike in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1pm: <strong>Stuart Butler \u2013 &#8216;Stroud and the General Strike&#8217;.<\/strong> How did Stroud\u2018s workers respond to the Strike Call? Stuart&#8217;s talk will look at the strike in the Stroud area and stretch up the railway line to Swindon.<\/li>\n<li>2pm: <strong>Nigel Costly \u2013 &#8216;Shirley Bliss and the Gloucester Strike Bulletin&#8217;.<\/strong>\u00a0Gloucester was rare in having a newspaper published to tell the strikers side of the story. The Bulletin\u2019s 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\u2019s Strike Bulletin will go online as it was published 100 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>3pm: <strong>Tony Conder \u2013 &#8216;Gloucester Action and Reaction&#8217;.<\/strong> The story of the strike in Gloucester and the reaction of the police, corporation and business after the strike had finished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagehub.org.uk\/events\/strike\/?utm_source=e-shot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage+Hub+Events%3a+Spring+2026+(5)&amp;es_c=510FA2F35BE956CAAC205FD190A1FCFA&amp;es_cl=AD7DA5BDE525A929E50CA27E9FF19021&amp;es_id=phc%C2%A342\">More details and booking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[197],"tags":[2163,861,298,1555,873,394],"class_list":["post-25354","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-organisations-strikes","tag-2163","tag-1926-general-strike","tag-gloucester","tag-stroud","tag-trade-unions","tag-tuc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Strike! 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