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The miners' strike 1984-85

July 2024

  • Durham Miners' Gala

    ‘It’s pure joy’: Durham Miners’ Gala, the world’s biggest celebration of working class culture

  • Joan Winfield

    Other lives
    Joan Winfield obituary

June 2024

  • A striking miner faces a line of police at the Orgreave coking plant during the miners’ strike, June 1984

    Guardian Print Shop
    Buy the classic photograph: the miner and the copper

    The famous photograph by Don McPhee will be available to buy in two sizes as a limited-edition print for one week only
  • A police officer pulls a bloodied miners by the shirt surrounded by other officers

    Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines

    Former miners and police officers recall Orgreave, one of the nastiest events in postwar British history, in Daniel Gordon’s forthright documentary
  • Miners running from mounted police at Orgreave

    Campaigners rally on Battle of Orgreave anniversary as Labour promises inquiry

    Sheffield demonstration comes 40 years after notorious police action against striking miners

May 2024

  • Tradition … the band of the Durham Miners Association.

    ‘I’ve got the Hovis ad in one ear and the Battle of Orgreave in the other’: my obsession with brass bands

  • An oil on canvas painting of cartoon-style people fighting with police officers, with horses in the mix and a line of police officers holding batons and riot shields in the background

    Guernica-style battle of Orgreave painting stars in miners’ strikes exhibition

March 2024

  • Stacey Sampson (Mary) Claire O'Connor (Isabel) and Victoria Brazier (Olive) talking in front of a banner that says COAL NOT DOLE

    We’re Not Going Back review – perfectly pitched miners’ strike musical

  • Betty Cook

    ‘It was hard – but there was lots of laughter’: women’s stories of the miners’ strike told on tour

  • Police and protesters clash in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, 18 June 1984.

    For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought

    Mark Hollingsworth
  • Girls walk on a country path near an open-air mine in Yorkshire along a muddy path

    ‘People have lost faith’: life in former mining towns 40 years on from strike

  • Ex-miners die in poverty as government takes pension funds, say campaigners

  • Ronnie Campbell obituary

February 2024

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Forty years on from the miners’ strike, unions are flexing their muscles

    Larry Elliott
    While numbers may not have fully recovered the climate is now in very much in trade unions’ favour
  • Two policeman drag away a striking miner at Orgreave, 1984

    ‘They didn’t understand us at all’: why the miners’ strike still captivates Britain, 40 years on

    Artists, writers and film-makers have long been inspired by the stories – and myths – of the 1984-5 strike. But how do those most affected by its legacy feel about the portrayals?

    • Tell us what it’s like to live in a UK former mining town in 2024

    • TV review
      Miners’ Strike: A Frontline Story review – storytelling so vivid that 40 years melt away in an instant

    • Notebook
      The miners’ strike changed Britain, but it didn’t feel like it at the time

      Rachel Cooke

January 2024

  • Austin Butler dressed as a second world war pilot standing beside a bomber aircraft.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Masters of the Air; Miners’ Strike 1984; Expats; David & Jay’s Touring Toolshed – review

  • Michael Mansfield KC, in a shirt, cardigan and jacket and long white hair, his hand on a table, looks serious

    TV review
    Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain review – the sadness and resentment still simmer

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