"We're still working here"#OnThisDay1984. Nottinghamshire miners pledge to continue working despite the meeting of the NUM executives who ruled the #MinersStrike as official.

"Don't cross picket lines because if you cross picket lines it's scabbing and it's about time Notts miners stopped being scabs"#OnThisDay 1984. Nottinghamshire miners leaders, Ray Chadburn and Henry Richardson, call on their miners to join #MinersStrike

#OnThisDay 1984. Yorkshire miner, Stan Whitworth, explains how the #MinersStrike is affecting his family.

The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5: an oral history

Miners march to commemorate 1984/1985 strike

ICONIC STRIKES #7: The U.K. Miners' Strike - The 1984-85 United Kingdom miners’ strike was a 362 days long strike that ultimately saw the decline in the power of trade unions. - Coal mining had been on a steep decline throughout the 20th century, with the industry employing approximately 1,000,000 workers in 1922, and only 231,000 by 1982. At that point, the coal mining industry was heavily subsidized by the government. In 1979 Margret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Her political and economic p

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