The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-1890 Socialists, New Unionists and New Women...
During 1889-1890, a strike wave swept across Britain hitting many major towns and cities. Bristol was not immune. The scale and intensity of industrial unrest in the city reached a level never...
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Following on from part one, this pamphlet traces the period of industrial unrest in Bristol between January and August 1890. The lockout of boot and shoe workers that began in December 1889, and...
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Ben Tillett
For permission to use pictures from Bristol Central Reference Library please email refandinfo@bristol.gov.uk. Ben Tillett, was born in Easton, Bristol in 1860 and founded the first unions for unskilled...
View ArticleThe Maltreated and the Malcontents on History Workshop blog
An article posted on History Workshop journal website by Mike Richardson on the Great Western Cotton factory in Barton Hill based upon his recent book The Maltreated and the Malcontents published by...
View ArticleA ‘night of infamy’: Black Friday, 1892
Bristol was rocked by two major strike waves in the late 19th Century, the first (1889-90) marked the emergence of ‘new unionism’ representing male and (significantly) female unskilled and semi-skilled...
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John ‘O’ Reiley –‘Man of Fire’.
For Christmas 2019 I bought my father a copy of BRHG’s pamphlet ‘Men of Fire -Work, Resistance and Organisation of Bristol Gasworkers in the Nineteenth Century’. Since his retirement he has been...
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