Unemployed demonstration, Hyde Park, London, September 1931.
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Picture number:10320789 Credit:Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
Caption:
A large crowd of unemployed people demonstrating in Hyde Park, London on 27 September 1931. By the autumn of 1931, the registered unemployed in Britain totalled nearly three million, and a million were on poor relief. This photograph captures one of a series of demonstrations made by the unemployed soon after parliament returned to Westminster in September 1931.
In Collection of: Science & Society Picture Library Subject(s) > Society & Wars > Politics, Government & LawAppears in: Labour tensions Factory life, factory line
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