A Very British Conspiracy

The Working Class Movement Library has teamed up with the North West Labour History Society for a talk by Shrewsbury 24 campaigner Eileen Tunrbull.

In 1973 a group of North Wales building workers were arrested for picketing-related offences connected with the building workers strike the year before. They became known as the Shrewsbury 24. Trials led to Pr*son sentences for six of them and suspended Pr*son sentences for sixteen more. A 47-year campaign for Justice revealed how the criminal justice system was manipulated to secure the convictions.

Eileen Turnbull is the Researcher and Secretary of the North West-based Shrewsbury 24 Campaign which was set up in 2006. She is also the author of “A Very British Conspiracy – The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice”.

Eileen is uniquely placed to tell the story of the prosecution of the Shrewsbury 24 and the campaign which against all odds built support and assembled the fresh evidence that led to the guilty verdicts being quashed.

The talk will be followed by an audiece Q+A.

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