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Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike

By Mark Metcalf, Mark Harvey, Martin Jenkinson

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About the book

In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coal miners' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the decimation of the coal industry on which their livelihoods and communities depended. Margaret Thatcher's government aimed to smash the most militant section of the British working class. She wanted to usher...Show more

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9781783463664

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Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2014

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Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike

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