The girl laughed delightedly, evidently taking this as a tribute to the excellence of her disguise. a b Hutton, Guthrie (2005). Coal Not Dole – Memories of the 1984/85 Miners' Strike. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84033-329-9. On This Day, 29 May – 1984: Miners and police clash at Orgreave". BBC News. 29 May 1984 . Retrieved 6 March 2009. Violence in Nottinghamshire was directed towards strikers and supporters of the NUM national line. NUM secretary Jimmy Hood reported his car was vandalised and his garage set on fire. [19] : 117 In Leicestershire, scab was chanted by the working majority against the few who went on strike, on the grounds that they had betrayed their area's union. [90]

John Scott, 73, another ex-Manton miner, worked for a local charity providing second-hand furniture for homeless people and people on low incomes. When funding for his post as deputy manager, and then volunteer coordinator, ran out, he stayed on as a driver until he retired eight years ago. Since then he has volunteered for another furniture project and was a local ward councillor for a term. He says he was one of the few people he knew who voted both remain and Labour. Yet once the country voted to leave, however, he believes Labour should have accepted the decision and fought for a proper deal. He is in no doubt that the party’s position cost it the 2019 election. “No one understood what Labour stood for. Lots of my friends voted Tory for the first time to get out of the EU,” he says. If Asprey had hoped that this would be the start of a great escape, then the next two games put a swift end to this notion. A 2-0 defeat at home to QPR was followed by a 4-0 thrashing at Coventry in which 17-year-old stand-in goalkeeper Stuart Roberts endured a torrid time. McSmith, Andy; Carrell, Severin (2 March 2003). "Stalin apologists drink to the memory of Uncle Joe". The Independent. London. Historical coal data: coal production, availability and consumption 1853 to 2016". Uk Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. 27 July 2017.Parker, Tony (1986). Red Hill, A Mining Community. Coronet Books. ISBN 0-340-42365-X. Compilation of eyewitness accounts of the miners' strike from both sides Many historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat, largely centring on Scargill's decisions. Garth Crooks volleys home the winner for Spurs against Stoke City as Steve Bould looks on helplessly. Photograph: Neal Simpson/EMPICS Sport Independent filmmakers documented the strike including the behaviour of the police, the role of miners' wives and the role of the media. The outcome was the Miner's Campaign Tapes. [129] Val McDermid's novel A Darker Domain (2008) has a plotline set in the strike. Multiple reviewers gave the book acclaim for exploring its social and emotional repercussions. [137] [138] [139]

Bottom since October 13 and relegated in March, the statistics from the season are staggering. Just three wins, 31 defeats, 17 points, 24 goals scored with 91 conceded, no away wins, six league goals on their travels, and a top scorer in Ian Painter who scored just six goals – and four of those were penalties. Frightening stuff. Media reports alleged that senior NUM officials were personally keeping some of the funds. In November 1984, it was alleged that senior NUM officials had travelled to Libya for money. [78] Cash from the Libyan government was particularly damaging coming seven months after the murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London by Libyan agents. In 1990, the Daily Mirror and TV programme The Cook Report claimed that Scargill and the NUM had received money from the Libyan government. The allegations were based on allegations by Roger Windsor, who was the NUM official who had spoken to Libyan officials. Roy Greenslade, the editor of the Mirror, said 18 years later he was "now convinced that Scargill didn't misuse strike funds and that the union didn't get money from Libya." [79] This was long after an investigation by Seumas Milne described the allegations as wholly without substance and a "classic smear campaign". [80] For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole. When he did so, although he knew very well the danger of showing too much interest, he could not resist reading it once again, just to make sure that the words were really there. Towers, Brian. "Running the gauntlet: British trade unions under Thatcher, 1979–1988." Industrial & Labor Relations Review 42#2 (1989): 163–188. online

The satirical Comic Strip Presents episode " The Strike" (1988) depicts an idealistic Welsh screenwriter's growing dismay as his hard-hitting and grittily realistic script about the strike is mutilated by a Hollywood producer into an all-action thriller. The film parodies Hollywood films by overdramatising the strike and changing most of the important historic facts. It won a Golden Rose and Press Reward at the Montreux Festival. [135] Milmo, Cahal (8 July 2008). "Grimethorpe Colliery Band left brassed off by music festival snub". The Independent. London . Retrieved 21 March 2009. Prokhorova, Irina (2014). 1990: Russians Remember a Turning Point. Quercus. p.1. ISBN 9781623655341. Whitehead gained a sociology degree and an MA in housing when the pits, which he first entered aged 16, closed. He has worked in senior roles for a number of housing associations across the region ever since.

a b "Colliery closure reversed in crisis coalfield". The Guardian. 6 March 1984 . Retrieved 26 April 2015. Macintyre, Donald (7 March 2009). "Ian MacGregor, scourge of miners, dies". The Independent. UK . Retrieved 4 September 2016. Well, perhaps not exactly that. But from your general appearance — merely because you're young and fresh and healthy, you understand — I thought that probably—’ They were perhaps four metres apart when the girl stumbled and fell almost flat on her face. A sharp cry of pain was wrung out of her. She must have fallen right on the injured arm. Winston stopped short. The girl had risen to her knees. Her face had turned a milky yellow colour against which her mouth stood out redder than ever. Her eyes were fixed on his, with an appealing expression that looked more like fear than pain. A Court of Session decision in Edinburgh ruled that Scottish miners had acted within their rights by taking local ballots on a show of hands and so union funds in Scotland could not be sequestered. "During the strike, the one area they couldn't touch was Scotland. They were sequestering the NUM funds, except in Scotland, because the judges deemed that the Scottish area had acted within the rules of the Union" – David Hamilton MP, Midlothian. [45] :8

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The National Union of Seamen supported the strike and limited the transport of coal. The decision was taken by a delegates' conference and not authorised by an individual ballot. Transport leaders, Ross Evans and Ron Todd, supported the NUM "without reservation", but an increasing proportion of drivers were not unionised and they failed to have much influence. [18] :140–142 The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, actively opposed the strike; Ian MacGregor's autobiography detailed how its leaders supplied the government with information that allowed the strike to be defeated. [107] : 384 The EETPU was supportive of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers and met with its leaders before the TUC had extended formal recognition. [18] :276 Long-term impact [ edit ] Now, Whitehead says, “I’d probably vote differently,” if given the opportunity again. “We also underestimated how it has in some ways ‘legitimised’ xenophobia and racist opinions.” a b "The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway > Events > The Nottinghamshire Miners, the UDM and the 1984–85 Miners' Strike (1980–1985) by Dr David Amos > Overview". nottsheritagegateway.org.uk.