Event Type: Local / Community

Takes Place: 13th May 2026

Time: 13:00

Venue: Museum of Oxford

Description: The UK General Strike of May 1926 had a profound impact on the entire country. For nine days nearly three million trade unionists went on strike in sympathy with nearly a million miners, whose employers had locked them out because they would not accept steep pay cuts and a longer working day. Britain had never seen this level of mass action before, and the ripples of discontent would stretch out to Oxford: a town which in the 1920s and 30s was experiencing tumultuous industrial, cultural and social change. Join Maurice East to discover the history of how trade unionism and working-class political activism arrived in the city of dreaming spires.

How to book: Tickets cost £6 and are available online via https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/Tc7ivsiL6eXzRYt5b53t or at the Museum shop. Tickets for this event also include access to our Galleries.

Price: £6

Tel: 01865 252334

Email: museum@oxford.gov.uk

Website: https://museumofoxford.org/

Organiser: Museum of Oxford

Region: South-East England