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Art in the Aisles - Walkley Events Collective

St Marys Church, Howard Road, Walkley, Sheffield S6 3RX
A weekend event run by Walkley Events Collective with 35 artists and crafts people to meet, ranging from painters to ceramicists, jewellers to sculptors. It will be a lively day out, with hot food, a bar, and live music throughout the weekend. Day 1 is 11am-5pm Day 2 is a later start: 1pm-5pm  
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Talk: The General Strike in Sheffield - 10 Days in May 1926

Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ
In Sheffield approximately 80,000 workers went out on strike in the General Strike of 1926, in the difficult years after World War One (1914-1918). It was Britain’s first – and only – general strike (so far!). Join Sheffield City Archives and Local Historian Dr John Baxter to mark the centenary of the General Strike, with this FREE history talk, it…
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Trotsky, Stalin and the 1926 General Strike: Lessons for Today

Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
  The Socialist Equality Party (British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International or ICFI), offers this two-hour event, an analysis of the General Strike of 1926. It was launched in response to a massive attack on the wages of Britain’s 1.2 million coal miners, amid a period of labour unrest. But the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which…
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