How Catholics and Anglicans contested the moral high ground in the 1926 General Strike
The strike prompted a high-profile media intervention by the Archbishop of Canterbury
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It is nearly one hundred years since two million workers downed tools in the only nationwide strike ever held in Britain. For nine days in May 1926, Anglican and Catholic leaders pondered moral positions few expected.
A shrewd septuagenarian who disliked dramatic gestures and felt out of his depth on economic questions, Randall Davidson had nevertheless been a key figure in a series of political crises since his enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1903: reform of the House of Lords, Irish independence and the First World War. The events of May 1926 invited another opportunity to make his voice heard.
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