Commemorating The General Strike of 1926

A morning walk as part of the Jane's Walk Festival, led by Rebecca Rocket and guided by the journal entries of a teenage E.J Rudsdale covering the strike days May 4th-12th 1926.

Displays, information boards and book stall.

A panel event with speakers, strike stories from the archive, interactive readings and a discussion.

Bar and social with a film 'The General Strike - A Revolution Betrayed?'.

Info: Explore a collection of information on the General Strike through photographs, newspaper articles, journal entries and sketches of E.J Rudsdale from Essex Records Office and a family profile from the mining community of Chopwell.

Info: Speakers; Dr. Peter Gurney, University of Essex and Charlie Kimber, co-author of a new book 'Revisiting the General Strike of 1926: when workers were ready to dare'. Footage of strike stories kindly made available from the Sound Archive at Essex Records Office and readings from meetings at Downing Street.

Info: Bar opens at 5pm for the film Screening “The General Strike – A Revolution Betrayed?”. The film was made in the early 1970s and recently unearthed in the archive of award-winning Platform Films.

Norman Thomas of Platform says that the power of the 70 minute film lies in its extensive use of first hand testimony of strikers and strikers’ relatives...It’s been a hundred years since workers across the country come out in support of over a million miners locked out of work for refusing to accept lower pay. Thomas claims the film contains vital lessons for present day trade unionists.

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