THE 1911 BLOG... is a resource for articles, essays and discussion about the 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike and its broader historical backdrop: the wave of worker militancy that swept Britain between 1910 and 1914 that became known as the Great Unrest. We would welcome your contributions on the period and also work that draws out the relevance of the struggles of the period to the labour movement today...
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Monday, 24 October 2011
The State Response to 1911
This paper was written by Sam Davies (Professor of History at LJMU) who has tirelessly and meticulously sifted through records and eyewitness accounts to show how far the state was stretched by the unrest of 1911. Furthermore his research into the events of 'Bloody Tuesday' when Michael Prendergast and John Sutcliffe were shot dead by troops in the North End of Liverpool, has done a fine service in restoring the names of those two men and those that succeed them- be they family or the labour movement. It is the hope of the owners of this blog that an annual commemoration will take place on 'Bloody Tuesday'- much like the touching centenary gathering that took place this year at the Eldonians Hall off Vauxhall Road.
The State Response to 1911 - Prof. Sam Davies (LJMU)
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