For her historical feature today, Margaret Mills took us back to just before the start of the first world war – 110 years ago – when Essex was the scene of a major agricultural strike which involved farmworkers who launched a series of strikes aimed at increasing their wages to about about £40 per year and reduced working hours – a half day on Saturdays.

The strike started in February 1914 and finally ended just one day before the start of the war, finally achieved its aims, it was not without a lot of pain.

Listen again here to what Margaret had to say on this subject:

Hope to see you once more next week,
Scott