The Hunger Marchers in Britain, 1920-1939
Author : Peter Kingsford
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Peter Kingsford
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : National Unemployed Workers' Committee Movement, afterwards National Unemployed Workers' Movement (Great Britain)
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Page : 71 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 1929
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 1922*
Category : Demonstrations
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Author : Peter Kingsford
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Kevin Grant
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520301013
Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial networks among revolutionaries and civil-rights activists from Russia to Britain to Ireland to India and beyond. He shows how the significance of hunger strikes and fasts refracted across political and cultural boundaries, and how prisoners experienced and understood their own starvation, which was then poorly explained by medical research. Prison staff and political officials struggled to manage this challenge not only to their authority, but to society’s faith in the justice of liberal governance. Whether starving for the vote or national liberation, prisoners embodied proof of their own assertions that the rule of law enforced injustices that required redress and reform. Drawing upon deep archival research, the author offers a highly original examination of the role of hunger in contesting an imperial world, a tactic that still resonates today.
Author : James Vernon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674044673
Rigorously researched, Hunger: A Modern History draws together social, cultural, and political history, to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their history was intricately connected with the precarious achievements of the welfare state in Britain, as well as with the development of international institutions committed to the conquest of world hunger.
Author : Stuart Maconie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1473527686
The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A tribute and a rallying call' - Guardian Three and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches and drill halls. Now we are nation of vaping and nail salons, pulled pork and salted caramel. In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Travelling down the country’s spine, Maconie moves through a land that is, in some ways, very much the same as the England of the 30s with its political turbulence, austerity, north/south divide, food banks and of course, football mania. Yet in other ways, it is completely unrecognisable. Maconie visits the great cities as well as the sleepy hamlets, quiet lanes and roaring motorways. He meets those with stories to tell and whose voices build a funny, complex and entertaining tale of Britain, then and now.
Author : Ian MacDougall
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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In the decades leading up to the Second World War, unemployed men and women converged on Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and other major cities in successive 'Hunger Marches' to demonstrate their opposition to unemployment and to demand government action to lesson its hard impact on themselves and their families.
Author : Alexander Stewart Gray
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 1908
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