All Outputs (3)

‘Debunking Myths’, review essay of Matt Perry, The Jarrow Crusade: Protest and Legend (University of Sunderland Press, 2005) (2006)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2006). ‘Debunking Myths’, review essay of Matt Perry, The Jarrow Crusade: Protest and Legend (University of Sunderland Press, 2005). North East history, 38, 171-179

Durham and South Wales Miners and the Spanish Civil War (2006)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2006). Durham and South Wales Miners and the Spanish Civil War. Twentieth Century British History, 17(3), 373-395. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwl020

This article compares and contrasts the roles of the South Wales Miners' Federation and the Durham Miners' Association (DMA) regarding solidarity activities with the Spanish Republican government, 1936-39. It firstly establishes that there were far f... Read More about Durham and South Wales Miners and the Spanish Civil War.

'The North-East and the Campaigns for the Popular Front, 1938-39' (2006)
Journal Article
Mates, L. (2006). 'The North-East and the Campaigns for the Popular Front, 1938-39'. Northern History, 43(2), 273-301. https://doi.org/10.1179/174587006x116176

This article examines the Popular Front campaigns in 1938 and 1939 at grassroots level. It does this by taking the North-East region as a case study. The north-eastern labour movement was traditionally moderate and loyal. Substantial support for the... Read More about 'The North-East and the Campaigns for the Popular Front, 1938-39'.