WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF THE
GENERAL STRIKE 1926?

To mark the 2026 centenary of the General Strike, our project seeks to
understand the legacy of the strike in the lived experience of today’s trade
unionists. With your help we are trying to reassess the action and its place in
our collective memory, as well as appreciate the aspirations and attitudes of
those who participated. To that extent, we are attempting to commemorate and
catch the last voices and their echoes over time from 1926.

WHO WE ARE

As the year 2026 approaches, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society
Research Group (LSRG) and Oral History Unit & Collective (OHU&C) are
thinking about how the General Strike ought to be commemorated.

• The Remember 1926 group share an interest in exploring the history and memories of organised labour and industrial action.
• We strive to include those voices too often marginalised in representations of the past.
• With the above in mind, we are seeking to commemorate the centenary of one of the most important European industrial disputes of the twentieth century.

OUR AIM

We hope our participation at this year’s Durham Miners’ Gala (2024) will encourage people to get in touch with their own photographs, family stories and memorabilia to help shed
light on the General Strike 1926. You can contribute your family stories via our
website, as well as let us know of how you think the strike ought to be
commemorated.