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Staff at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, have digitised more than 450 documents on Britain's one and only general strike of May 1926 (www.warwick.ac.uk/go/generalstrike<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/gs>). The digitised documents include internal reports from the Trades Union Congress (the strike's co-ordinator), bulletins issued by newspapers and strike committees, and the TUC's transcripts of BBC radio broadcasts. As well as presenting the sources as a database of digitised documents, we have been able to highlight documents which relate to the conduct of the strike in particular towns and cities using an interactive map of Britain (www.warwick.ac.uk/go/generalstrike/map<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/generalstrike/map>) . The map overlays Google Maps with 1920s-1940s Ordnance Survey maps made available by the National Library of Scotland. Digitised documents which contain entries on particular locations are linked to from pins on the OS map. Additional contextual material on the website includes 'The General Strike day-by-day', a summary of key events before, during and after the dispute. Feedback on these (particularly the map) would be welcome. As of this month, the Modern Records Centre has also joined Twitter - anyone so inclined can follow us @MRCWarwick<https://twitter.com/MRCWarwick> . Liz Wood Assistant Archivist Modern Records Centre University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Tel: 024 7652 4219 Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra