Talk:Hunger marches

Michael Portillo
Just for info, he was on Radio 4 today on a program about the hunger marches and complained about the poor state of this article. Formerip (talk) 19:51, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * He might be interested to know that the article didn't exist until I heard his first broadcast on the subject.--Salix (talk): 23:52, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

I too found my way here as a result of accidentally hearing Portillo's programme. I thought he could not be right about the real Hunger Marches being forgotten; but it seems he was! By coincidence I had been looking through the Metropolitan Police files for the 1936 Hunger March at the National Archives the week before, plenty of references there contrasting potentially dangerous Hunger Marchers with the very respectable Jarrow Crusade. There seems to be a clear need for some sort of short summary page on the Hunger Marches as a whole. I'll contribute a few bits and pieces in the next couple of weeks but don't have a good overview of all the marches. My father was a serial Hunger Marcher, starting with the South Wales Miners Fed/NUWCM march from Merthyr and the Rhondda to London in 1927. He worked closely with Wal Hannington, I think his final march was the 1936 one; but he did not talk in much detail about them in later years. IainWallace (talk) 23:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC) 109.152.187.18 (talk) 23:18, 15 September 2012 (UTC)