Book Description

The 1911 Liverpool transport strike was more than an industrial dispute. It led to the second biggest city of the British empire being brought to a standstill as the strike committee ran the city of Liverpool. Such was the fear that the dispute might lead to revolution, the Government sent troops onto the streets of Liverpool. Events escalated out of control that Winston Churchill infamously sent two gunboats up the Mersey with the guns pointing at the city itself.Brian Benjamin's account unearths one of histories unknown stories of working class struggles and of how the transport strike was a pivotal moment in working rights. It also reveals the violence of 'Bloody Sunday,' when Police and troops charged a crowd that had congregated outside of St. George's Hall.'Send the gunboats up the Mersey,' also reveals the long forgotten near revolution of 1919. Scarcely months after the armistice of world war one, there were mutinies within the army, industrial unrest, demonstrations that led to troops and tanks onto the streets of Glasgow and Liverpool. At one point, eight years after two gunboats were sent up the Mersey so was another ship. This account brushes away and reveals the real mood of the nation still recovering from an awful war with uncertainty and high unemployment. Read also how the events of 1911, the great unrest, and the near revolution led to Nye Bevan's formation of the NHS and the welfare state. It also reveals of how our ancestors' battles from the early twentieth century led to the world that we currently live in today.If you liked Peterloo and wish to discover more unknown history and how it influences the world that we live in today, then this book is for you.Also included are articles previously published in these football times about Dixie Dean, football's first number nine, the quiet Champion, Liverpool's Joe Fagan, and how Scotland are the Godfather of Tika-taka. So, you like history and politics, you are in for a treat.