Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.671
Object Name
Banner
Title
'East Barking Cambell. Socialist Sunday School'
Place
Barking, Essex
People
Socialist Sunday School
Description
A red banner with three intertwined letter S in the centre surrounded by the words 'East Barking Cambell Socialist Sunday School'. The banner is fringed at the bottom, and the edges have floral designs.
Socialist Sunday Schools were founded as alternatives to Christian religious Sunday Schools, which socialists believed were inadequate for educating socialist children. The Socialist Sunday Schools taught the ideals and principles of socialism to young people in an organised and systemic way. Their teachings included a 'Ten Commandments of Socialism'. Socialist Sunday Schools were opened by various waves of socialist movements, the first being founded by the Chartists in the 1830s. The most widespread wave was in the 1890s, when Mary Gray, a Social Democratic Federation member began a school for the children of workers participating in the dockers strike. By 1912 there were over two hundred Socialist Sunday Schools around the country.
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