THE 1984 MIMERS STRIKE

SOME QUICK FACTS

• More than half the country's 187,000 mineworkers are on strike.
• Miners in Yorkshire and Kent were the first to close down.
• The leader of the Miners was Arthur Scargill.
• The head of the National Coal Board (NCB) was Ian Mac Gregor.
• The strike, which began on March 12, 1984, lasted for a year.

WHAT THE MINERS WERE GOING THROUGH

As the strike wears on and the bitterness in the close and tight knit villages increases a veritable war is unleashed on the strikers and their families, abusive letters, phone calls, graffiti, escalating to smashed house windows, cars, physical attacks, arrests and intimidation by police, victimization

SOME QUOTES...

“There is much dissatisfaction with the seeming lack of concern by our National leaders”
“Such tiny amounts, against such urgent and strategically vital need, and still we expected men to stick it out.”
“The media battle is wearing down even the staunchest of hearts”
“In these times of job losses, pension cuts and protests, the 1984/5 strike resonates with the little man or women as potently as ever before.”

ARTHUR SCARGILL

Arthur Scargill (born 1938) was the president of the British National Union of Mineworkers who led the longest and most violent miners' strike in British history. Arthur Scargill was born in Worsborough, South Yorkshire, in 1938. The house in which he was born and in which he lived for three years didn't have any good facilities. In time, his family moved to a more suitable and modern place and that was where he grew up. He was a miner at the age of 18, he was a member (1955–62) of the Young Communist League before joining the Labour Party.

GRAPH OF THE NUMBER OF MINERS ON STRIKE

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QUIZ TIME!

QUESTION 1

• Who led the miners strike?

QUESTION 2

• How long did the strike last for?

QUESTION 3

• Which mines closed down first?

QUESTION 4

• Who was the head of NCB?

QUESTION 5

• How many jobs were lost over 3 years?

QUESTION 6

• Who was Margaret Thatcher

QUESTION 7

• When did the strike start?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_2540000/25...
• https://libcom.org/library/notes-on-the-miners-strike-1984-1985
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series5/miners_strike_coal.shtm...
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984–85)
• https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101106093100AAURQQN

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