Old Market March and Police Riot – 80th Anniversary

February 23^rd 1932 was the scene of a confrontation between the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement and the police. To mark the 80th anniversary, historians Roger Ball and Dave Backwith will consider the impact of the events of that day and the wider context of the struggles of the unemployed during the great depression.

Dave backwith is a researcher of Bristol’s working class history in the inter war years particularly 1919 and the unemployed workers movement in the 1930’s. He is a family and community studies lecturer at the Anglia Ruskin University.

Roger Ball is a post graduate research student in the history department at the University of the West of England.

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