The General Strike of 1926
If you are interested in economic history, and especially the history of trade unions and of the labour movement in Britain, then you should find out more about the General Strike of 1926. See the activities below.

ACTIVITY

1. What caused the strike: the long-term causes, and the immediate causes that triggered it?


2. Who called the strike? Who opposed it? Who was glad it came? Why?


3. How widespread was it, and how long did it last?


4. What impact did it have on life in Britain?


5. What impact did it have on the British labour movement?

WEB RESOURCES

Churchill's First Budget and the General Strike (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/
190.shtml?question=190

The General Strike (Spartacus)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUgeneral.htm

The Trade Union Congress’s own website:
http://www.unionhistory.info/timeline/1918_39_Narr_Disp
lay.php?Where=NarTitle+contains+%27The+General+Strike%2
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Activities

Multiple choice:
From War to War
Web task:
Finding out (p. 236)
Web task:
The Great War
Web task:
The League of Nations
Web task:
The General Strike of 1926
Web task:
Hoo-Doo/Voodoo
Web task:
Unemployment in the 1930s
Web task:
Ernest Hemingway
Text task:
W. H. Auden
Text task:
Does It Matter?
Text task:
The Second Coming
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Word Grid: Modernism