100 years on from the 1926 General Strike the Museum has an exhibition on the strike and also you are invited to a:
BOOK LAUNCHResistance and Resilience. The 1926 General Strike and the miners’ lockout in the Somerset Coalfield. By Dave Chapple
FREE EVENT AT RADSTOCK MUSEUM FRIDAY MAY 1ST
DOORS OPEN 6:40PM FOR 7PM TALK FOLLOWED BY SIGNING AND SALES BOOK COST £15
Dave Chapple is a Clevedonian who got to know the Somerset Coalfield towns and villages while playing football in the Somerset Senior League in the 1970s against teams like Peasedown, Tunley, Clutton and Bishop Sutton. A postman for 38 years, Dave has lived in Bridgwater since 1987. He is a life-long trades unionist; an oral historian and author of ten books of west country working class history, biography and autobiography. His latest book, to be launched at the Museum on 1st May, is his tribute to the Somerset Miners Association, and is based on three years research in the SMA Archive at Bristol University
