UK miners' strike (1984–1985) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The UK Miners' Strike was major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British tra...
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Adeney, Martin. The Miners` Strike, 1984-85: loss without limit. (Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1986). ... Artworker Books. Blood, sweat and tears: photographs from the Great Miners Strike 1984-1985. (London, 1985). ... Callinicos, A and Simons, M. The Great Strike: the miners` strike of 1984-85 and its lessons.
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Images from the 1984/85 Miners' Strike ... In 1984 I spent 12 months photographing the Miners' Strike in the UK. The dispute started when the Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, announced the closure of Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire. This was to be the first of 20 pit closures with the loss of 20,000 jobs.
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The Battle of Orgreave is the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strik...
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More than half the country's 187,000 mineworkers are now on strike. Miners in Yorkshire and Kent were the first to down tools this morning - by tonight they had been joined by colleagues in Scotland and South Wales.
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The story of the 1984/5 miners' strike, told using audio and images from the archive. ... The miners' darkest year ... Miners strike over closures...
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The miners were traditionally the British workers ‘Brigade of Guards’. A defeat, as humiliating as possible, was the conscious aim of Thatcher. The government provoked strike action in 1984. Thatcher set out to create an ‘industrial Falklands’.
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Home » Events » Audio and Past Events » RSA Thursday - The 1984 Miners’ Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain ... They are joined at the RSA by Neil Kinnock and David Hunt to discuss the dramatic events which unfolded over the 11 months of the strike, and to consider the lasting legacy of the strike which...
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BEFORE the strike of 1984 more than 22,000 men mined 6.5 million tons of coal in Wales. ... Former Tower Colliery boss Tyrone O’Sullivan recalled Bragg played a gig in Neath to help the Hirwaun miners raise enough cash to buy Tower against the Conservative Government’s wishes.
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Former Euro-communist Martin Jacques, with an article in The Guardian, has joined a long line of media commentators who have used the 25th anniversary of the start of the 1984 miners strike to pour excreta over Arthur Scargill.
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