'Leicester unemployed march to London, June 4, 1905'. On 4 June 1905, 497 unemployed men from Leicester marched to London in protest at high levels of unemployment during the post-Boer War economic slump. This photograph shows marchers setting off from Leicester surrounded by a huge crowd

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