The General Strike in Nottingham (in progress)

An interesting diary of the 9 days of the General Strike was written by Raymond Postgate and published in the journal, New Masses “Diary of the British Strike.” New Masses, September 1926, 13–15.

Some important writing on Nottingham and the East Midlands in the General Strike (where available the title is linked to an online source)

For the General Strike in Mansfield see Nine Days That Shook Mansfield by Barry Johnson, available from NDLHS. He also published “The General Strike in Chesterfield.” in The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal (Issue No 123), 195 – 205. Our work on the General Strike in Nottingham draws heavily from material collected by Barry for a wider work on the East Midlands.

Nottingham Trades Council Strike Bulletin No. 5

The main source for Nottingham is the work of Peter Wyncoll, his “The General Strike in Nottingham.” Marxism Today (June 1972): 172–80. He also contributed a chapter on the East Midlands in Jeffrey Skelley (ed) The General Strike, 1926. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976. There is also a chapter on the general strike in his The Nottingham Labour Movement 1880-1939. Lawrence & Wishart, 1985.

Local reports on the strike were included in The Plebs, locally there were reports on:

Mansfield and District

Nottingham