Miners' Strike 1984-1985: Collections
Introduction | Collections | Selected links | Photographs
- Miners' Strike Collection: newpapers and press cuttings
- Lady Windsor Lodge: branch of the National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales Area); the lodge played a leading role in the strike
- South Wales Coalfield Disputes Photographs
- Miners' Support Groups: video interviews with groups in South Wales
- Rhymney Valley Miners' Support Group (Glamorgan, Wales) [David Sutton Collection]
- Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners and Lesbians Against Pit Closures
- Communist Party of Great Britain
- Michael Foot (born 1913): Labour politician
- Eric Heffer (1922-1991): Labour MP
- Bryn Jenkins: branch secretary of the Communist Party in Ystradgynlais (Powys, Wales)
- Trades Union Congress (TUC)
- Martin Walker (born 1947): activist and author
- Hilary Wainwright (born 1949): editor of Red Pepper magazine
- Pit Prop Theatre Company
- 1984-5 Miners' Strike and Colliery Working Plans: material collected by the South Wales Miners' Library
- Times/Sunday Times Labour Department: material collected by Sir George Pope (1902-1982), a director of the Times newspaper
- Coal and Community: study of three mining communities (Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire) following the strike
Introduction | Collections | Selected links | Photographs
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- Coalfield Web: photographic and oral history material from the South Wales Coalfield Collection
- Ymgyrchu!: images of political campaigning in Wales (National Library of Wales)
- Scottish Labour History Collections: includes records of the National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish Area (National Library of Scotland)
- Working Class Movement Library (Salford): includes material on the strike
- Coal Mining in North Staffordshire: 1984 Strike: online exhibition (Staffordshire Multimedia Archive)
- Trades Union Congress Library Collections (London Metropolitan University): includes large collection of printed ephemera relating to the strike
- The Union Makes Us Strong: TUC History Online: includes many images from the strike
- From Kitchen Table to Conference Table: online exhibition following the progress of women from the private sphere to the public sphere, including how the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike affected women.
- BBC News: The policeman's story
- Coal Authority: successor to the National Coal Board
- Corus: successor to the British Steel Corporation
- National Coal Mining Museum for England (Overton, West Yorkshire)
- Big Pit: National Mining Museum of Wales (Blaenafon, near Abergavenny)
- Scottish Mining Museum (Newtongrange, near Edinburgh)
- The Miners' Strike 1984: then and now: documentary photography project by Martin Shakeshaft
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