Strike!

Free, during museum opening hours

Ground floor

A free, accompanying talk on the General Strike is on 13 May - with Tyne & Wear Archives and Newcastle University. Find out more here. 

The General Strike of May 1926 rocked the country with King George V declaring a state of emergency. Around 1.5 to 2 million workers went on strike in support of ‘locked-out’ miners. 

This display marks 100 years since the General Strike.