Chapter 5: “Peaceably, If We Can – Forcibly, If We Must”: trades unions, the working class and Chartism in Derbyshire in the struggle for economic and political liberty 1 The Birth of the Charter (1839) […]
The Golden Age of Empire – Derbyshire Trades Unionism 1848-1890 1 SUPER-PROFITS MEAN SUPER-WAGES A new generation of professional trades unionists 2 “DOING AWAY WITH PUBLIC-HOUSE CLUB HOUSES” The demise of the tramping system (1850-1913) […]
Ron Champion Champion grew up in Leeds and then went to Oxford University to read History, where he met his future wife, Barbara Auckland, who became a sub-editor on the Daily Worker. (See separate entry […]
APPENDICES APPENDIX ONE: OFFICERS OF LOCAL DERBY TRADE UNION ORGANISATIONS OFFICERS OF THE DERBY TRADES COUNCIL 1891-1975 Presidents Vice Presidents 1891 James Wheeldon (Stonemasons) ? Hadley 1892 ditto probably […]
CHAPTER EIGHT CLASS WAR OR IMPERIALIST WAR? THE DERBYSHIRE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE POLITICS OF 1914-1918 Illustration: graffiti made by conscientious objectors imprisoned in Long Eaton 1 The Unions at the outset of […]
CHAPTER NINE: REFORM OR REVOLUTION? CLASS POLITICS 1918-25 1 The 1918 general election 2 The revolutionary period 1919-21 3 Battles on the economic front – from the war to the early twenties […]
CHAPTER TWELVE A PEOPLE’S WAR – A PEOPLE’S PEACE? The Derbyshire Labour Movement: 1939-1945 For some, the summer of 1939 was a complex contradiction of international turmoil and domestic idyll. The TGWU District […]
CHAPTER SEVEN “THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT TAKES ITS OWN COURSE” 1) Out with the old – in with the new a) Social Conditions – 1890 to 19 b) The growth of industrial militancy 1911-1 914 2) i) […]
CHAPTER 13 THE MODERN ERA 1945-70 I The overall political and economic situation 2 The Labour Government’s economic policy 1947-50 3 The Cold War and the labour movement in Derbyshire 4 Political […]
CHAPTER 10 “NO SIGNS OF WEAKENING” – THE GENERAL STRIKE OF 1926 IN DERBYSHIRE “There were no signs of weakening. On the other hand more workers were coming out and joining the strike.” [1] […]
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