In 1936, mass unemployment and extreme poverty in the north-east of England drove 200 men to march in protest from Jarrow to London. Their MP, Ellen Wilkinson was with them as they came south to ...
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'Really fascinating' - Archaeologists hope the public can provide context to Jarrow's history
Members of the public are invited to give context to Jarrow’s history.
Put the search term “protest march” into Google News and you’ll be assailed with a cornucopia of civil unrest, from all corners of the globe. In India they are marching in protest against the killing ...
Harrogate welcomed the Jarrow marches to-day as cheerfully as if they were a relief column raising a siege. The music of the mouth-organ band might have been that of the bagpipes so surely did it ...
In retracing the steps of the Jarrow march of 1936, Stuart Maconie finds that much of the past remains with us “Our people shall not be starved … If we cannot do this, what use are we as a Labour ...
Mention the town of Jarrow and it might conjure up images of the 1936 Jarrow Crusade or the historic setting of St Paul's Church and the monastery which was home to St Bede. The place has had its ups ...
On October 5 1936, 200 unemployed men from Jarrow in north-east England set out for London carrying a petition asking for work to be brought to their town. Their march, which took just under a month, ...
On 08 October 2006, the BBC marks the 70th anniversary of the Jarrow Crusade with the Politics Show live from the town hall in Jarrow. We ask what relevance the events of 1936 have to contemporary ...
In 1936, mass unemployment and extreme poverty in the north-east of England drove 200 men to march in protest from Jarrow to London. Their MP, Ellen Wilkinson was with them as they came south to ...
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