Yesterday, October 5th, was the anniversary of the start of the Jarrow March, when two hundred unemployed men set out from Jarrow to walk 300 miles to London in protest against unemployment and poverty in their town. #jarrowmarch #jarrow #history #otd #onthisday #poverty #unemployment #workingclass #class #leftwing #workers #ellenwilkinson #politics #radical #political #socialist #historian | The Radical Tea Towel Company

On this day in 1936, 200 men from Jarrow on the northeast coast of England marched 282 miles to London. Jarrow was a shipbuilding town that had been decimated by the Great Depression and the men were marching to raise awareness of the poverty that their families were going through and the inaction of the government. The Jarrow March was a massive contributor to the changes that soon took place in this country around social care, education and the provision for the poor. Jesus came into a society