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At midnight on 3 May 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. The country braced itself for a Socialist revolution. Yet in the ensuing nine days, far from working for the overthrow of the state, strikers as well as strike-breakers mobilised to save parliamentary democracy. Although the strike was perhaps the most dramatic peacetime event in twentieth-century Britain, affecting every inhabitant of every town of any size throughout the country, it was remarkable more for its discipline and control than for street battles and picket line violence. There were no deaths, and few injuries, while in one city, Plymouth, police and pickets played football together. Capitulation, when it came on 12 May, was almost as total as it was unexpected. A Very British Strike provides a fast-paced and authoritative account both of the events that led up to the strike and of its immediate aftermath. Anne Perkins draws on a wide variety of hitherto unpublished sources and affords readers a twenty-first-century lens through which to see the brief moment in the 1920s when the British state seemed as vulnerable to an alliance of external and internal threats as it sometimes seems today. `Anne Perkins has grasped the sources and done this nine-day tragedy justice. This is history with a minimum of eye-catching "contemporary relevance," but plenty of detail from the time' Daily Telegraph
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A compelling history of Britain's revolutionary moment - the General Strike of May 1926.
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Anne Perkins graduated from London University with a first-class degree in history and joined the BBC as a trainee journalist. She has been a political correspondent for the BBC, Channel 4 News and, most recently, the Guardian, where she is currently a leader writer. A regular broadcaster, she lives in Dorset with her husband and two daughters.
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- EditorePan Books
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0330435531
- ISBN 13 9780330435536
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- Numero di pagine320
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 301 pages. A compelling history of Britain's revolutionary mo ment - the General Strike of May 1926.At midnight on 3 May 1926, two million workers downed tools and came out on the only General Strike ever staged in Britain. The country braced itself for a S ocialist revolution. Yet in the ensuing nine days, far from worki ng for the overthrow of the state, strikers as well as strike-bre akers mobilised to save parliamentary democracy. Although the str ike was perhaps the most dramatic peacetime event in twentieth-ce ntury Britain, affecting every inhabitant of every town of any si ze throughout the country, it was remarkable more for its discipl ine and control than for street battles and picket line violence. There were no deaths, and few injuries, while in one city, Plymo uth, police and pickets played football together. Capitulation, w hen it came on 12 May, was almost as total as it was unexpected. A Very British Strike provides a fast-paced and authoritative acc ount both of the events that led up to the strike and of its imme diate aftermath. Anne Perkins draws on a wide variety of hitherto unpublished sources and affords readers a twenty-first-century l ens through which to see the brief moment in the 1920s when the B ritish state seemed as vulnerable to an alliance of external and internal threats as it sometimes seems today. 'Anne Perkins has g rasped the sources and done this nine-day tragedy justice. This i s history with a minimum of eye-catching contemporary relevance, but plenty of detail from the time' Daily Telegraph. Codice articolo 1487v
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