The day Hull rose up against Mosley’s Blackshirts
The day Hull rose up against Mosley’s Blackshirts Transcript: Sally Fairfax: At the back of St. Stephens shopping centre in Hull, is a field that’s now been allowed to grow with wild grasses and flowers. But decades ago this was Corporation field, a patch of land that was used by the local authority for fairs and public events. And in July 1936 it saw what came to be known as the Battle of Corporation field, when up to 10,000 Hull people opposed Oswald Mosley, who had come to the city to drum up support for his British Union of Fascists. Paul Power: There was a crowd of ten thousand that gathered, mostly opposed to him, local Trade Unionists, socialists communist party members. Paul Power co-convening of Hull and East Yorkshire stand up to racism. Oswald Mosley in the couple of years before this had been holding marches and rallies all round the country. And on July 12 th 1936 he planned a rally here, he was turned down by the Council who wouldn’t let him use the Civic hal...