Address of the Coal Miners of the North Staffordshire District - A notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This notice invites us to explore the hardships suffered by North Staffordshire's coal miners in 1831 - when their early trade unions were still not widely recognised.
Employers often intimidated organised ...
An Address to the Coal Miners - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
An apparently neutral observer introduces himself in this pamphlet, claiming to weigh up the respective cases of the coal masters and miners' union during industrial unrest in 1831.
Claiming to wish ...
Anti-Slavery petition to be organised in Stoke-on-Trent - A notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Once Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1804-5, a new organisation known as the African Institution tried to maintain the momentum of the anti-slavery movement.
Now they called for other countries ...
Arthur Scargill at a miner's strike demonstration, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent 1984.
Arthur Scargill was President of the National Union of Mineworkers during the 1984 - 1985 miner's strike and became a household name. He attended rallys and demonstrations throughout the country including ...
Britannia's Address to her Fair Daughters - a radical call to women from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Love of country is not sexual; in every age, in every country, it has warmed and animated the female breast...
In the early 19th century, women were among the most forward-thinking political activists ...
Children's day out, Kidsgrove.
During the 1984 - 1985 miner's strike there were ten womens action groups in north Staffordshire who supported the striking miners. They ran food centres, organised collections, manned picket lines and ...
Dr. Parkes' surgery, Normacot Road, Longton
This property, possibly 84, Normacot Road, had been the local headquarters of the Blackshirts, a fascist organisation of the inter-war period. Their posters (reading "India Betrayal") were still visible ...
Easter Dues - a notice to the householders of Hanley and Shelton, from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Local taxes, or 'tithes,' were a controversial issue in 1824 - not least those collected every Easter by the local clergy.
The Peter Watson Case
When, in Durham, a shoemaker-turned-troublemaker ...
Fanny Deakin and A J Cook, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Fanny Deakin is pictured here A J Cook, trade unionist and miners' leader. This photograph may well have been taken during the General Strike of 1926, when they led a march of 200 or 300 miners through ...
Fanny Deakin with Mike Booth, Silverdale
Born Fanny Rebecca Davenport in the mining village of Silverdale in 1883, into a large, poor family, Fanny Deakin was a trailblazing activist and politician who sought to right the injustices and inequalities ...
Florence Colliery miners going on a demonstration, 1984
During the miner's strike of 1984/1985 many miners and strike supporters travelled to demonstrations around the country. In later years it became illegal to picket any place of work other than your own.
One ...
Food collection at Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent
The miner's strike of 1984 - 1985 saw many families suffer great hardship as striking workers lost all their pay and benefits. Food collection and distribution points like this one at Weston Coyney were ...
Free Trade office, Stafford
Pictured in front of the Free Trade Union offices at 65 Eastgate Street, covered in posters stating the case for Free Trade, is Stafford Town Councillor Arthur Finney who was appointed as the Free Trade ...
Free Trade Union group, Stafford
A group of Free Trade Union members and lecturers in front of their offices at 65 Eastgate Street, Stafford. Seated front right is Stafford Town Councillor Arthur Finney who was appointed as the Free ...
Fundraising at Walthamstow Market, London 1984.
During the miner's strike of 1984 - 1985 many women became involved in the struggle and attended protests, raised money, manned picket lines and collected food. It was common during the strike for people ...
Fundraising at Walthamstow Market, London 1984.
During the miner's strike of 1984 - 1985 many women became involved in the struggle and attended protests, raised money, manned picket lines and collected food. It was common during the strike for people ...
General Meeting of the North Staffordshire Coal Masters - A notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In this notice, 32 North Staffordshire mine owners outline their unity with regard to two pressing issues.
Wages
At this time, miners were attempting to secure an increase in their wages by forming ...
Libel! - Handbill from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In 1831 the Potters' Union came out in support of North Staffordshire's striking miners.
Speculation
Reports speculated that the potters were intending to follow the miners in striking for improved ...