NEW 🚨 | Introducing our #StrikeMap #SolidarityFund pin.
During this important #GeneralStrike100 year, we have been inspired by the incredible organising of women supporting the strike and the lockout that followed. Selling miners' lamp badges to support families.
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During this important #GeneralStrike100 year, we have been inspired by the incredible organising of women supporting the strike and the lockout that followed. Selling miners' lamp badges to support families.
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September 17, 2026 at 7:24 AM
NEW 🚨 | Introducing our #StrikeMap #SolidarityFund pin.
During this important #GeneralStrike100 year, we have been inspired by the incredible organising of women supporting the strike and the lockout that followed. Selling miners' lamp badges to support families.
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During this important #GeneralStrike100 year, we have been inspired by the incredible organising of women supporting the strike and the lockout that followed. Selling miners' lamp badges to support families.
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New #GeneralStrike100 podcast! We discuss the literature that came out of the general strike: from established writers like Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence to the working-class authors who broke out later. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl1...
September 17, 2026 at 7:02 AM
New #GeneralStrike100 podcast! We discuss the literature that came out of the general strike: from established writers like Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence to the working-class authors who broke out later. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl1...
🔥 We've built programmes tackling the challenges facing our movement head on.
💯 What we do today will shape the next 100 years.
🏡 The home of trade union education.
🎺 Register for our independent programme - https://gftuet.org.uk/education
#GFTUET #GeneralStrike100 #GeneralStrike
💯 What we do today will shape the next 100 years.
🏡 The home of trade union education.
🎺 Register for our independent programme - https://gftuet.org.uk/education
#GFTUET #GeneralStrike100 #GeneralStrike
September 14, 2026 at 8:08 AM
🔥 We've built programmes tackling the challenges facing our movement head on.
💯 What we do today will shape the next 100 years.
🏡 The home of trade union education.
🎺 Register for our independent programme - https://gftuet.org.uk/education
#GFTUET #GeneralStrike100 #GeneralStrike
💯 What we do today will shape the next 100 years.
🏡 The home of trade union education.
🎺 Register for our independent programme - https://gftuet.org.uk/education
#GFTUET #GeneralStrike100 #GeneralStrike
We are ready at #TUC2026 for the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Congress in #Brighton.
Come see us at stall 57 and claim your #OurEconomyIsntWorking goodie bag.
Join us tonight on the Pier from 8pm for our social with
Morrish.
#GFTUET #TUed #TradeUnions #GeneralStrike100
Come see us at stall 57 and claim your #OurEconomyIsntWorking goodie bag.
Join us tonight on the Pier from 8pm for our social with
Morrish.
#GFTUET #TUed #TradeUnions #GeneralStrike100
September 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
We are ready at #TUC2026 for the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Congress in #Brighton.
Come see us at stall 57 and claim your #OurEconomyIsntWorking goodie bag.
Join us tonight on the Pier from 8pm for our social with
Morrish.
#GFTUET #TUed #TradeUnions #GeneralStrike100
Come see us at stall 57 and claim your #OurEconomyIsntWorking goodie bag.
Join us tonight on the Pier from 8pm for our social with
Morrish.
#GFTUET #TUed #TradeUnions #GeneralStrike100
📆EVENT THIS WEEK: 10 Sep 12:30-2pm Walter Citrine: The General Strike and West Indian Rights - free talk with Dr Jim Moher about the trade union leader and key organiser of the trade union movement during the General Strike in 1926. #GeneralStrike100 @tuc.org.uk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walter-cit...
Walter Citrine: The General Strike and West Indian Rights
Dive into the story of Walter Citrine’s fight for workers’ rights and West Indian justice in this lunchtime talk.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
📆EVENT THIS WEEK: 10 Sep 12:30-2pm Walter Citrine: The General Strike and West Indian Rights - free talk with Dr Jim Moher about the trade union leader and key organiser of the trade union movement during the General Strike in 1926. #GeneralStrike100 @tuc.org.uk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walter-cit...
We are delighted to be part of the General Strike 100 anniversary national partnership of museums, libraries, archives and history groups! ✊
Explore the interactive map to find your nearest #GeneralStrike100 places of history and visit organisations taking part: generalstrike100.com
Explore the interactive map to find your nearest #GeneralStrike100 places of history and visit organisations taking part: generalstrike100.com
August 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM
We are delighted to be part of the General Strike 100 anniversary national partnership of museums, libraries, archives and history groups! ✊
Explore the interactive map to find your nearest #GeneralStrike100 places of history and visit organisations taking part: generalstrike100.com
Explore the interactive map to find your nearest #GeneralStrike100 places of history and visit organisations taking part: generalstrike100.com
Stories written by strikers, compiled into a special #StrikeMap X Notes from Below edition.
Featuring strikers from the famous #BrumBinStriker.
Get yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #WorkersMakeHistory #GeneralStrike100 #GS100
Featuring strikers from the famous #BrumBinStriker.
Get yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #WorkersMakeHistory #GeneralStrike100 #GS100
August 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Stories written by strikers, compiled into a special #StrikeMap X Notes from Below edition.
Featuring strikers from the famous #BrumBinStriker.
Get yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #WorkersMakeHistory #GeneralStrike100 #GS100
Featuring strikers from the famous #BrumBinStriker.
Get yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #WorkersMakeHistory #GeneralStrike100 #GS100
Our partners, @strikemap.org, have published all their collected #StrikeStories in collab with Notes From Below.
Support workers writing in this important General Strike anniversary year.
Purchase yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GFTU #GeneralStrike100
Support workers writing in this important General Strike anniversary year.
Purchase yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GFTU #GeneralStrike100
NEW | We've published our #StrikeStories we have been collecting from those taking strike action over the last 6 years.
Buy your special edition #StrikeMap X Notes from Below pamphlet here: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #Workers #Campaigns #Organising #Strikes
Buy your special edition #StrikeMap X Notes from Below pamphlet here: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #Workers #Campaigns #Organising #Strikes
July 21, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Our partners, @strikemap.org, have published all their collected #StrikeStories in collab with Notes From Below.
Support workers writing in this important General Strike anniversary year.
Purchase yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GFTU #GeneralStrike100
Support workers writing in this important General Strike anniversary year.
Purchase yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GFTU #GeneralStrike100
This thing is beautiful. A privilege to work with Notes From Below.
A publication of all the amazing #StrikeStories written by those taking action over the last 6 years.
Workers Make History in 1926 and 2026.
Buy yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GeneralStrike100
A publication of all the amazing #StrikeStories written by those taking action over the last 6 years.
Workers Make History in 1926 and 2026.
Buy yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GeneralStrike100
NEW | We've published our #StrikeStories we have been collecting from those taking strike action over the last 6 years.
Buy your special edition #StrikeMap X Notes from Below pamphlet here: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #Workers #Campaigns #Organising #Strikes
Buy your special edition #StrikeMap X Notes from Below pamphlet here: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #Workers #Campaigns #Organising #Strikes
July 21, 2026 at 7:11 AM
This thing is beautiful. A privilege to work with Notes From Below.
A publication of all the amazing #StrikeStories written by those taking action over the last 6 years.
Workers Make History in 1926 and 2026.
Buy yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GeneralStrike100
A publication of all the amazing #StrikeStories written by those taking action over the last 6 years.
Workers Make History in 1926 and 2026.
Buy yours: bit.ly/SMxNFBspecial
#StrikeMap #GeneralStrike100
Finally made it to @phm.org.uk to see the #GeneralStrike100 exhibition and it included some fantastic artefacts and archives. Catch it while you can (on til 2nd November)
July 15, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Finally made it to @phm.org.uk to see the #GeneralStrike100 exhibition and it included some fantastic artefacts and archives. Catch it while you can (on til 2nd November)
#GeneralStrike100: Had a great chat the other day with Jon Boud on his All The Rage podcast about the 1926 general strike. We covered everything from the roots of the dispute to its legacy today. Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/trax/jon-bou...
July 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
#GeneralStrike100: Had a great chat the other day with Jon Boud on his All The Rage podcast about the 1926 general strike. We covered everything from the roots of the dispute to its legacy today. Listen here: www.mixcloud.com/trax/jon-bou...
This year marks 100 years since the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. Millions of workers took part & it remains a significant milestone in the history of the labour movement.
Check out the GFTU interactive map to explore the history of the General Strike
generalstrike100.com?utm_campaign...
Check out the GFTU interactive map to explore the history of the General Strike
generalstrike100.com?utm_campaign...
June 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
This year marks 100 years since the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. Millions of workers took part & it remains a significant milestone in the history of the labour movement.
Check out the GFTU interactive map to explore the history of the General Strike
generalstrike100.com?utm_campaign...
Check out the GFTU interactive map to explore the history of the General Strike
generalstrike100.com?utm_campaign...
Had an interesting week discussing the legacy of the 1926 General Strike. My take away is the urgent need to write down the part trades councils played in it. Trades councils are largely ignored by labour historians and so we're going to have to write these histories ourselves. #GeneralStrike100 💪
May 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Had an interesting week discussing the legacy of the 1926 General Strike. My take away is the urgent need to write down the part trades councils played in it. Trades councils are largely ignored by labour historians and so we're going to have to write these histories ourselves. #GeneralStrike100 💪
Nice to see my adopted home town of #Tooting in the #GeneralStrike100 news today, maybe it was this article that inspired #CitizenSmith 😂. @tootingnewsie.bsky.social
Centenary of the General Strike
amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social collection photos, newspaper (local & foreign)
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#GeneralStrike100 @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @phm.org.uk @lseechist.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social collection photos, newspaper (local & foreign)
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#GeneralStrike100 @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @phm.org.uk @lseechist.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
May 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Nice to see my adopted home town of #Tooting in the #GeneralStrike100 news today, maybe it was this article that inspired #CitizenSmith 😂. @tootingnewsie.bsky.social
Centenary of the General Strike
amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social collection photos, newspaper (local & foreign)
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#GeneralStrike100 @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @phm.org.uk @lseechist.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social collection photos, newspaper (local & foreign)
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#GeneralStrike100 @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @phm.org.uk @lseechist.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
May 22, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Centenary of the General Strike
amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social collection photos, newspaper (local & foreign)
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#GeneralStrike100 @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @phm.org.uk @lseechist.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social collection photos, newspaper (local & foreign)
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#GeneralStrike100 @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @phm.org.uk @lseechist.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
Don't miss today's online talk on South and North Rather than North and South: Ellen Wilkinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and the ‘Big Strike’ novel with @bronterre1.bsky.social to mark #GeneralStrike100. Buy now for today Wed 20 May
www.ticketsource.com/elizabeth-ga...
www.ticketsource.com/elizabeth-ga...
May 20, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Don't miss today's online talk on South and North Rather than North and South: Ellen Wilkinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and the ‘Big Strike’ novel with @bronterre1.bsky.social to mark #GeneralStrike100. Buy now for today Wed 20 May
www.ticketsource.com/elizabeth-ga...
www.ticketsource.com/elizabeth-ga...
On Saturday a group enjoyed a guided walk with Archives Officer Penny Duggan looking at the impact of the 1926 General Strike on the town of Erith. Workers lost wages, transport stopped, coal supply was restricted and the beer was running out. #GeneralStrike100
May 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
On Saturday a group enjoyed a guided walk with Archives Officer Penny Duggan looking at the impact of the 1926 General Strike on the town of Erith. Workers lost wages, transport stopped, coal supply was restricted and the beer was running out. #GeneralStrike100
WHAT WE'RE READING:
“Their Greatest Effort Ever”: The British General Strike at 100
Find out more at tinyurl.com/3mzytdjw
#GeneralStrike100 #GS100 #LaborHistory
“Their Greatest Effort Ever”: The British General Strike at 100
Find out more at tinyurl.com/3mzytdjw
#GeneralStrike100 #GS100 #LaborHistory
WHAT WE'RE READING: “Their Greatest Effort Ever”: The British General Strike at 100 - Labor Heritage Foundation
From Jacobin:"The general strike was 'the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,' wrote the historian and economist G. D. H. Cole. One hundred years ago on May 4, 1926, a million British workers walked off their jobs."These workers struck i
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May 17, 2026 at 5:12 PM
WHAT WE'RE READING:
“Their Greatest Effort Ever”: The British General Strike at 100
Find out more at tinyurl.com/3mzytdjw
#GeneralStrike100 #GS100 #LaborHistory
“Their Greatest Effort Ever”: The British General Strike at 100
Find out more at tinyurl.com/3mzytdjw
#GeneralStrike100 #GS100 #LaborHistory
More information of the exhibit can be found at: www.ncl.ac.uk/library/spec...
Kindly supported by:
@leverhulme.ac.uk
@ohcollective.bsky.social
#GeneralStrike100
@sslh.bsky.social
Kindly supported by:
@leverhulme.ac.uk
@ohcollective.bsky.social
#GeneralStrike100
@sslh.bsky.social
When Britain Stood Still | University Library | Newcastle University
How workers, politicians and trade unionists faced the challenge of the 1926 British General Strike. And how opponents organised and mobilised resistance against it.
www.ncl.ac.uk
May 14, 2026 at 5:54 AM
More information of the exhibit can be found at: www.ncl.ac.uk/library/spec...
Kindly supported by:
@leverhulme.ac.uk
@ohcollective.bsky.social
#GeneralStrike100
@sslh.bsky.social
Kindly supported by:
@leverhulme.ac.uk
@ohcollective.bsky.social
#GeneralStrike100
@sslh.bsky.social
New #GeneralStrike100 episode! A preview of our Patreon-only bonus episode, we hear from strike participant, Harry Watson, about life, work and struggle on East London's docks. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e119... #WorkingClassHistoryWednesday
May 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
New #GeneralStrike100 episode! A preview of our Patreon-only bonus episode, we hear from strike participant, Harry Watson, about life, work and struggle on East London's docks. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e119... #WorkingClassHistoryWednesday
We discuss the derailing of the Flying Scotsman, plus other incidents of anti-scab sabotage (told by workers who did them!), in our three-part podcast series on the general strike.
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e119... #GeneralStrike100
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e119... #GeneralStrike100
May 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
We discuss the derailing of the Flying Scotsman, plus other incidents of anti-scab sabotage (told by workers who did them!), in our three-part podcast series on the general strike.
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e119... #GeneralStrike100
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e119... #GeneralStrike100
'All railwaymen to cease work TO-NIGHT. Transport Workers, Printers and Metal Workers to follow' - from no.1 of an official Strike Bulletin, 4th May 1926. This & more in the exhibition, When Britain Stood Still: General Strike at 100 www.ncl.ac.uk/library/spec... #GeneralStrike100
May 12, 2026 at 2:41 PM
'All railwaymen to cease work TO-NIGHT. Transport Workers, Printers and Metal Workers to follow' - from no.1 of an official Strike Bulletin, 4th May 1926. This & more in the exhibition, When Britain Stood Still: General Strike at 100 www.ncl.ac.uk/library/spec... #GeneralStrike100
The #GeneralStrike ended #OnThisDay a century ago. 5 days later #PoliceOrders featured the Commissioner's "warmest thanks" to regular & Special Met officers, "voluntary workers" and the "Civil Constabulary Reserve", with a "Special Constabulary Reserve" continuing to exist. #GeneralStrike100 #OTD
May 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
The #GeneralStrike ended #OnThisDay a century ago. 5 days later #PoliceOrders featured the Commissioner's "warmest thanks" to regular & Special Met officers, "voluntary workers" and the "Civil Constabulary Reserve", with a "Special Constabulary Reserve" continuing to exist. #GeneralStrike100 #OTD
The Battle of the Bulletins 🎙️ 📰
The battle for the press – and public opinion – was one of the key conflicts of the 1926 General Strike
In our new blog, Archivist Liz Wood writes about media machinations during the Nine Days in May - warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
#GeneralStrike100
The battle for the press – and public opinion – was one of the key conflicts of the 1926 General Strike
In our new blog, Archivist Liz Wood writes about media machinations during the Nine Days in May - warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
#GeneralStrike100
May 12, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The Battle of the Bulletins 🎙️ 📰
The battle for the press – and public opinion – was one of the key conflicts of the 1926 General Strike
In our new blog, Archivist Liz Wood writes about media machinations during the Nine Days in May - warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
#GeneralStrike100
The battle for the press – and public opinion – was one of the key conflicts of the 1926 General Strike
In our new blog, Archivist Liz Wood writes about media machinations during the Nine Days in May - warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
#GeneralStrike100
Erith in 1926 was a busy industrial town but that all stopped on 4 May when the General Strike began. Find out more on a guided walk with Archives Officer Penny Duggan on 16 May 2.30pm. Tickets £5. To book your place email archives@bexley.gov.uk #GeneralStrike100
May 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Erith in 1926 was a busy industrial town but that all stopped on 4 May when the General Strike began. Find out more on a guided walk with Archives Officer Penny Duggan on 16 May 2.30pm. Tickets £5. To book your place email archives@bexley.gov.uk #GeneralStrike100