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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Jarrow
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(29,000 in 1991) Town in Tyne and Wear, on the south bank of the Tyne, which was the site of the 7C monastery where the Venerable *Bede spent most of his life; part of the original monastery church is incorporated in St Paul's, most notably the lower part of the tower. The name of Jarrow acquired a different resonance in the 1930s, when the local shipyards were hit by the Depression and unemployment reached more than 60%. Marches had been undertaken in other places to highlight economic need, but the Jarrow hunger march of 1936 became the best known of them all. Some 200 unemployed men marched 441km/274m south to petition the House of Commons in London.
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