Harry Taylor 🇬🇧

Historian, record collector, and admirer of old machines. Biographer of Peter Shore & Victor Grayson. Working on JR Clynes.

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

For anyone interested in Victor Grayson I’ve started to update the old website https://t.co/SjXazJp1Nh and will be putting some more useful stuff for researchers on there.

[Jordan Tyldesley @PippyBing]

Last night I watched a doc where kids in the favelas with nothing to their name were playing football on the streets and having a great time, but you’re telling me that ours have literally no option but to watch YouTube cos services have been cut. Get real.

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

Just when you think you’ve seen it all

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

@therealhostman Enjoy!

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

A lovely Shropshire morning.

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

PS look at those prices!

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

Peak indie! My 2006 gig list:

23 Jan 2006 — Bedouin Soundclash + Vernon Maytone
Barfly Liverpool — £8

24 Feb 2006 — Student Music Awards — Dogs
Liverpool Academy 2 — £3 students / £5 guests

7 Apr 2006 — We Are Scientists + Forward Russia!
Manchester Academy — £10.50

8 Apr 2006 — The Subways + The Dodgems
Carling Academy Liverpool — £8.50

5 May 2006 — The Kooks + The Automatic
Carling Academy Liverpool — £9

1 Jun 2006 — Alice Cooper
Villa Marina, Isle of Man

7 Oct 2006 — Yourcodenameis:milo (+ Dogs, The Vernons, Jack Afro, Little Ze)
Zanzibar Club Liverpool — £6

20 Oct 2006 — Guillemots + The Last Town Chorus
Carling Academy Liverpool — £10

24 Oct 2006 — Nine Black Alps / NME Rock ’n’ Roll Riot Tour
with The Fratellis, The Horrors, The Maccabees & Larrikin Love
Carling Academy Liverpool — £10.50

25 Oct 2006 — The Raconteurs
Mountford Hall Liverpool — £17.50

6 Nov 2006 — Babyshambles + The Holloways
Carling Academy Liverpool — £16

21 Nov 2006 — Primal Scream + The View
Liverpool Academy — £17.50

25 Nov 2006 — Dirty Pretty Things + Larrikin Love + Hot Club de Paris
Mountford Hall Liverpool — £12.50

11 Dec 2006 — The Zutons + Candie Payne
Liverpool University — £15

[Richard Johnson @richardmarcj]

Part II of our 'Since Attlee & Churchill' episode on the General Strike is out today! Wherever you get your podcasts

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

100 years ago today and the Evening News reports the aftermath of the collapse of the General Strike.

There were reports of a failure to pay strike pay and a passing donkey greeted “Good afternoon, TUC”.

At a dockers meeting in Liverpool a speaker shouted “Get back to your work; every man for himself” whilst emergency staff were still operating some of London’s power stations.

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

@PaulEmbery @NicDakin55 Healey wouldn’t have passed a selection process nowadays. In fact he probably would have been expelled for his previous membership of the communist party or his speech at the ‘45 conference.

[Ben @Jamin2g]

“The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey”!

*everyone leaves*

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

@allandray08 @richardmarcj Thanks Alan. I’m just fine tuning it. Currently redoing a chapter on Clynes’ refusal to grant asylum to Trotsky and the associated fallout. I’ve written far too much as usual!

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

@allandray08 @richardmarcj Excellent fact! Perfectly illustrates the point.

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

100 years ago today The British Gazette, Churchill’s emergency strike newspaper, announced the collapse of the General Strike. Printed for only 8 days, it became the government’s propaganda weapon in Britain’s greatest industrial crisis.

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

The rear page. Game of Thrones vibes from the headline.

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It’s the centenary of the General Strike and I’ve found some old newspapers in my haphazard archive. First off The British Worker issue 2 from Thursday May 6th 1926:

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

The British Worker was the official newspaper of the TUC during the General Strike. The paper was created almost overnight as a lone voice with the rest of the mainstream press firmly against the strike. This was from Thursday evening, the third day of the strike.

[Harry Taylor 🇬🇧 @Harry__Taylor__]

“Where Birmingham leads, the country follows” according to Joe Chamberlain…

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

The future is Birmingham