TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mustill, Edd.
AU  - Edd Mustill.
TI  - Britain's Revolutionary Summer: : The General Strike of 1926
SN  - 9781836430681
PY  - 2026///
CY  - , England
PB  - : One World
KW  - Britain's Revolutionary
KW  - General Strike
KW  - Strike of 1926
N2  - The government feared that the country was teetering on the brink of revolution. Trade union leaders thought they’d be shot by the end of the week. For nine days, trains, buses and trams stopped running. Lorries could only leave the docks protected by military convoy. In Birmingham, the police hunted down city councillors, and in London they raided trade union headquarters. And for those in the coalfields, from South Wales to Scotland, the strike would not last nine days, but nine months.

On the strike’s centenary, Edd Mustill tells the story of why millions of workers came out on strike, and why the government did all it could to quash them

ER  -