Newspaper Accounts of the General Strike of 1926 and Related Matters in Great Britain on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Microfilmed articles from British newspapers concerning the General Strike of 1926.
A negative copy is available upon request.
Dates
- 1922-1934
Creator
- British Gazette (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom lasted 10 days, from May 3, 1926 to May 13, 1926. It was called by the general council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for 800,000 locked-out coal miners. Some 1.7 million workers went out, especially in transport and heavy industry. The government was ready and enlisted middle class volunteers to maintain cover for the strikers. There was little violence and the TUC gave up in defeat. In the long run, there was little impact on trade-union activity or industrial relations.
Extent
0.22 cubic feet
Abstract
Microfilmed articles from British newspapers concerning the General Strike of 1926.
Quantity:
2 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts), microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, September 26, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 18, 2019
- Title
- Newspaper Accounts of the General Strike of 1926 and Related Matters in Great Britain on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 18, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository