Teachers.io

Assignment Details

Reading: Trade Union Militancy

2019-20

History Year 13

Date Due

Jan. 17, 2020

Additional Info

Background to 'New Unionism' on the TUC History website (in conjunction with London Metropolitan University):

http://www.unionhistory.info/timeline/1880_1914.php

Weblinks on 'Red Clydeside':

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/sociology/section-3-red-clydeside-key-issues-and-key-events

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/why-glasgows-bolshevist-uprising-1919-wasnt-quite-the-red-threat-uk-many-believed

Guardian article on the Battle of George Square:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/06/100-years-on-the-day-they-read-the-riot-act-in-glasgow

BBC World Service podcast: Witness account of the General Strike 1926

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00r3qkt

Newspapers during the General Strike - Guardian article

https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/2016/may/01/newspapers-in-the-general-strike-1926-archive-teaching-resource

General Strike resource collection: University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/gs/

Primary source collection on the General Strike: University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/gs/timeline/aftermath/

Attachments

'Red Clydeside' & The Battle of George Square Dec. 16, 2019, 12:21 p.m. - 57.8 KB
'New Unionism' and the 1889 Dock Strike Dec. 16, 2019, 12:22 p.m. - 1.5 MB
Trade Unions in Britain 1880-1939 Dec. 16, 2019, 12:33 p.m. - 372.1 KB
1919 - Britain's Red Summer Dec. 20, 2019, 12:30 p.m. - 2.5 MB
General Strike bullet points - Lowe.pdf Jan. 10, 2020, 7:38 p.m. - 319.8 KB
The General Strike - Modern History Review.pdf Jan. 10, 2020, 7:39 p.m. - 2.1 MB