[together with other newspapers (see below)].

Bookseller Notes

A complete set of the Government's anti-strike newspaper, edited by Churchill, who was also chief contributor: together with duplicates of Nos. 4 and 6.And together with a run of the Times newspaper, Nos. 44, 261-44, 270, 3-13th May. The first issue, a couple of days before the Strike, is a regular, heavy, 28 page issue. No. 44, 263 for 5 May is a single foolscap sheet. Also, the single sheet Daily Mirror for May 8. Plus: The British Worker for May 13th - 'Great Strike Terminated'. And: The Fascist Bulletin for May 29, 1926, 8 pages, 4to.Churchill's rle in The British Gazette is well known ('when the general council of the TUC called a general strike (May 1926) in support of the miners, Churchill was determined to break the strike' (ODNB). Complete sets are not especially uncommon. However, it is unusual to find them accompanied by other contemporary sources, here spanning the political spectrum.The paper wrappers have on what is now the lower cover, a label of J. & E. Bumpus, sending books to Arthur Loveday in Barcelona. This is dated 7 May 1926, so would not have enclosed the present collection. Loveday was Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War: his sympathies were with Franco, which may account for the presence of the Fascist Bulletin.