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A warm welcome to the May issue of Discover Your Ancestors Periodical, your regular mix of family and social history stories, explorations and advice.

The relationship between big employers and the ordinary workers has never been easy, but at certain points there have been moments of crisis. In this issue, we look at two – first, Keith Gregson uses his own family history as a way into the early 19th century struggle for textile workers against new technology (sound familiar?); and second, Denise Bates tells the story of the 1926 General Strike, which started exactly 100 years ago. Plus ça change… And of course there's much more inside to enjoy – including the different kind of social struggles championed by Josephine Butler and John Stuart Mill.

If you're reading this at the start of May, it's still not too late to get your tickets for the Liverpool Family History Show on 9 May! I hope to see you there. And don't forget our print editions too, packed with different articles: complete your set at the DYA website or at the show.

I hope you enjoy this issue.

Andrew Chapman, Editor.