Our great speaker line-up for this year's festival is now complete with the addition of Karen Reay, Regional Secretary of Unite North East and Yorkshire region. Here she is addressing the crowds last year. #wbhh24

Lobby 1867 on Westgate will be opening at 10 am on Saturday 11 May for anyone marching with With Banners to get a hot drink and use the toilets before setting off. Thanks Layla
Assemble with your banners from 10:45 at Smyth Street WF1 1ED #wbhh24

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We have three great marching bands to accompany this year's march - Crofton Silver Band, the PCS Samba band and Emley Brass Band. Stirring tunes and rhythms to keep you all going! #wbhh24

Here is the full programme for this year's action packed With Banners Held High festival #wbbh24

Exhibitions to view in the Town Hall on 11 May
-NUM historic banners
-Past Pixels slide show - rare historic banners
-Backbone of the Nation 40 years on from the miners' strike. Exhibition celebrating lives & memories of mining communities, kindly on loan from Kim Revill #wbhh24

Another great speaker confirmed for our mainstage at this year's festival - @drJoGrady of @UCU #wbhh24

We have children's activities taking place in Wakefield Town Hall as part of our With Banners festival this year, run once again by Grow Wakefield who will get youngsters planting beans among other activities. So do bring the whole family along to enjoy our festival on 11 May.

With Banners is pleased to confirm that Jon Trickett MP MP is one of our keynote speakers this year.

We are very excited to announce that Attila the Stockbroker will be performing at this year's festival.

We have another treat booked to perform for you on our stage at With Banners on Sat 11 May - local singer/songwriter Sally Cinnamon. Don't miss her!

With Banners festival would be complete without the inimitable and loyal friend to the festival, Mr Joe Solo! Here is a pic of him in full flow at the festival last year. He has a new album out so you will be able to buy a copy at the event this year.

We have an international and inspirational speaker booked for this year's With Banners festival - Matthieu Bolle-Reddat, General secretary of France's CGT union. You don't want to miss hearing him!

With Banners is happy to announce that we have Dave Ward , General Secretary of CWU on our speaker platform this year.

We are pleased that our festival will once again be opened by Denise Jeffery, Leader of Wakefield Council.

With Banners Held High/MediaNorth bring you a unique talk about the 1984-85 miners’ strike as seen by news cartoonists on Wednesday 8 May 7.30pm

Presented by Journalist Nicholas Jones Nick Jones

In person admission is free but will also be streamed live by CWU Leeds No1 Amalgamated Branch

Our compere for this year's festival will once again be writer and broadcaster Ian Clayton, who says he is proud to have fulfilled this role every year since we started 10 years ago! Here he is enjoying commanding the stage last year! #wbhh24

The day dawned bright and fair, ready for WithBannersHeldHigh. See you all on Wood St, #Wakefield . Banners, bands, stalls. Conversation, old friends, new friends. Also our 3 year anniversary!

A new draconian #PublicOrderBill is being rushed through parliament. Join us WithBannersHeldHigh fringe meeting #ResistanceIsDuty #RightToProtest
#Wakefield Sat 14 May 3pm