A Catalogue of Films and Videotapes produced during the 1984-85 Miners Strike. A4 portrait format. Some 32pp of information. Collected and distributed by The Northern Film and T.V. Archive including lists of photographic collections, books, plays and music. Very rare - this the only one for sale on the web. Quality is VG.
The long read: As home secretary, Theresa May championed inquiries into past police abuses such as those committed at Hillsborough by South Yorkshire police. But she has refused calls to investigate the roots of that disaster
Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government came to power with the express intent of waging, and winning, a war on organized workers. According the Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore, upon taking office in 1979 she immediate announced to home secretary Willie Whitelaw, “the last Conservative government was destroyed by the miners’ strike. We’ll have another and we’ll win.” … Continue reading "Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85"
Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government came to power with the express intent of waging, and winning, a war on organized workers. According the Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore, upon taking office in 1979 she immediate announced to home secretary Willie Whitelaw, “the last Conservative government was destroyed by the miners’ strike. We’ll have another and we’ll win.” … Continue reading "Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85"
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…
It was the abiding image of the 1984 coal strike, but what happened to the protagonists of Don McPhee's photo?
Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government came to power with the express intent of waging, and winning, a war on organized workers. According the Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore, upon taking office in 1979 she immediate announced to home secretary Willie Whitelaw, “the last Conservative government was destroyed by the miners’ strike. We’ll have another and we’ll win.” … Continue reading "Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85"
Minister says scars from ‘bitter and divisive dispute’ still run deep more than three decades on
Calls for cooler heads over the miners’ strike
A miner, a miner's wife, a coal board negotiator and an MP share their recollections
Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government came to power with the express intent of waging, and winning, a war on organized workers. According the Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore, upon taking office in 1979 she immediate announced to home secretary Willie Whitelaw, “the last Conservative government was destroyed by the miners’ strike. We’ll have another and we’ll win.” … Continue reading "Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85"
Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government came to power with the express intent of waging, and winning, a war on organized workers. According the Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore, upon taking office in 1979 she immediate announced to home secretary Willie Whitelaw, “the last Conservative government was destroyed by the miners’ strike. We’ll have another and we’ll win.” … Continue reading "Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85"
Arthur Scargill gives his first full account of the miners' strike in Saturday's Guardian. Was the former NUM leader a working-class hero, or a deluded individual who led his members on a doomed and costly mission?
Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government came to power with the express intent of waging, and winning, a war on organized workers. According the Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore, upon taking office in 1979 she immediate announced to home secretary Willie Whitelaw, “the last Conservative government was destroyed by the miners’ strike. We’ll have another and we’ll win.” … Continue reading "Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85"
