# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZfIbMho_VM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66798250-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e833d5642c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-12T12:50:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

She forged iron chain by hand all day, for a wage that couldn’t feed her.
Cradley Heath, 1910: women were paid as little as five shillings a week — then tricked out of the legal minimum wage they’d just been granted. So 800 of them downed their hammers and struck. After ten weeks, every employer gave in.
They won — and helped make the minimum wage real in Britain.
Send this to a woman who should know their names.
#BritishHistory #ForgottenHistory #SocialHistory

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- **Views:** 1,756
- **Likes:** 145
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- **Comments:** 1

## Tags

socialhistory, forgottenhistory, britishhistory

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