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This dissertation will discuss, analyse and evaluate the roles that women in the coalfield of South Wales played in their communities during the miners’ strike of 1984-85. It will also scrutinise t…
The great photographers Don McPhee and Martin Jenkinson both shot a miner in a policeman’s helmet confronting cops at Orgreave – but whose image became iconic, and who decides?
Workers employed at the Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire go on strike after the British National Coal Board announces the closure of the mine, the first of 20 pit closures that would put 20,000 min…
Photographer Michael Kerstgens travelled to Britain from Germany in 1984 to record the miners' strike. Here are some of his pictures
Description: This is a photograph of the London Rally during the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike. Date: 1984 This is a photograph of members of the Ellington Colliery branch of the National Union of Mineworkers Our Catalogue Reference: NRO 08298/1/9 This image is from the collections of Northumberland Archives. Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons. Please follow the link to view this Photograph and many more on our online catalogue.
First edition of The Enemy Within: The Miners' Strike 1984/85 by Michael Kerstgens (2024) First impression Large format hardback in new condition Published by Dewi Lewis About On March 6th 1984 miners at Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire went on strike. Six days later, on March 12th, NUM President, Arthur Scargill, made the strike official across Britain. And so began the UK’s biggest strike since the General Strike of 1926. It ran for almost a year until March 1985 - a year of bitter conflict between the miners and Margaret Thatcher and her government and marked the end of the mining era in Britain. 24 year-old Michael Kerstgens was studying photography in Germany at the time. But he had strong links with South Wales having been born in Llanelli and spending his early years there. His father had also spent twelve years working in South Wales for an engineering company involved with the mining industry. As a sixteen year old Kerstgens took a summer job at the company’s Swansea office. He also experienced the underground life of the miners at Cynheidre Colliery. It’s not surprising therefore that once Kerstgens heard about the strike he went to South Wales to find out what was going on and to start what would be his first major photography project.
Description: This is a photograph of the Sutton Manor Colliery 'Battle Bus' that took picketing miners to their next picket site during the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike. Date: May 1984 This is a photograph of members of the Ellington Colliery branch of the National Union of Mineworkers Our Catalogue Reference: NRO 08298/1/1 This image is from the collections of Northumberland Archives. Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons. Please follow the link to view this Photograph and many more on our online catalogue.
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Photographer Michael Kerstgens travelled to Britain from Germany in 1984 to record the miners' strike. Here are some of his pictures
When contrasted with their dramatic strike victories of 1972 and 1974, the shattering industrial defeat suffered by British miners in 1985 has been seen as evidence of the further weakening of working-class solidarity. Waged with complete unity, the strikes of 1972 and 1974 brought the miners substantial material gains, contributed to the downfall of a government, and reinforced the National Union of Mineworkers' position at the core of the British labour movement. In contrast, 1984-85 saw the miners racked by internal division, and their attempt to resist the pit closure programme of the Thatcher government end in bitter defeat.
