1926 Miners' Lockout

The miners'' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it continued for seven months and affected one million miners. In County Durham, where almost three in every ten adult men worked in the coal industry, its impact was profound.Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham''s miners a...