In the first of four extracts from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staff HILARY CAVE recalls challenging police ...
Some, particularly in Nottinghamshire (the most productive area), never voted to strike; miners there complained ... and building up a powerful police presence: officers were mobilised from ...
Amanda McKay's family were told by police to leave their home during ... how her family faced kidnap threats during the 1984 miners' strike. Amanda McKay's father, Ted McKay, represented miners ...
LABOUR was urged to fulfil its election pledge to “uncover the truth” about the infamous 1984 police attack on striking miners at Orgreave at the David Jones-Joe Green Memorial Lecture on Saturday.
New edition of a book first produced in the aftermath of the strike looks back 40 years to consider the dispute and its aftermath ...
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Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners' strike came to an end when thousands of men came off the picket lines and returned to work. More than 140,000 workers had walked out in March 1984 in ...
Eventually, the McKay family were advised by police to leave their home because ... "Without a doubt, the miners' strike is the crucible moment of my life," said Price. "I was out in the streets ...