Jarrow March
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The Jarrow March of 5–31 October 1936, also known as the Jarrow Crusade, was an organised protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the English town of Jarrow during the 1930s. Around 2
Jarrow marchers en route to London
Charles Palmer, founder of Jarrow's shipyard
HMS Duchess, the last ship to be launched from Palmer's shipyard, July 1932
Ellen Wilkinson marching with the Jarrow Marchers, Cricklewood, London
Ellen Wilkinson
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Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her career, as the Member of Parliament for Jarrow, she beca
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…served the needs of both the yard and town. The shipyard generated high employment to Jarrow, but the industrial works created a harsh environment. Ellen Wilkinson, the town's historian and member of parliament from 1935 to 1947, quotes a newspaper source from 1858: "There is a prevailing blackness about the…
Wilkinson in 1924
The building at the junction of Devonshire Street and Hyde Road, Ardwick, that housed the Ardwick Higher Elementary Grade School in the 1900s.
Whitworth Hall, Manchester University's Oxford Road building
Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's first prime minister