Conflicts and identities at work before 1945

Miners in Yorkshire 1919

Edwardian servants

A 1930s typewriter

A Sunday school picnic, before world war one

A painting by L S Lowry

The football match

Cotton mills in Keighley

The Ragged-trousered philanthropists – a novel written in 1910, published but severely censored in 1925, published in full 1955

Cotton mill in Lancashire

A socialist cartoon

1906 trade union membership card

A Scottish trade union banner

First World War recruiting poster

Worl war one recruiting poster

Womens football team 1917

Police strike of 1918

Glasgow strike 1919

Police during the 1925 miners strike

Photos from the 1926 general strike

An anti-strike cartoon

The press against the strike

Miners in 1926

Soldiers in 1926

Soup kitchen in 1926

During the strike

The telegram that ended the strike

After the strike the union provides some money to hep strikers who were victimized by employers

A book on the strike

Pamphlet on an unemployed workers march 1928

A pamphlet from 1933

1930s cartoon

Another march, in the 1930s

An appeal for help for the Spanish republicans,

A 1937 union poster

The importance of remembering, This banner remembers 1900

A typical trade union banner

Railway workers banner