1919: Britain's Year of Revolution

The little-known true story of rioting and rebellion among British veterans and workers after the end of World War I.

On the August Bank Holiday of 1919, the government in London dispatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force. Thousands of troops, backed by tanks, had been trying without success to suppress disorder on the streets.

Earlier that year in London, a thousand soldiers had marched on Downing Street before being disarmed by a battalion...