The Miners' Strike 40 years On: Mining the Archives

Published 2024-05-16
A panel discussion on why and how archivists & historians preserve the heritage of the Miners' Strike for the labour movement, accompanied by a display.
With Liz Wood, Project Archivist at the Modern Records Centre, Keith Gildart, Professor of labour and social history, ex-miner and Matt Dunne, Archivist & Volunteer Coordinator at the Marx Memorial Library.

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  • There was no need for any confrontation with the Police. In order to strike, all you need to do is: not attend work. That's it- you can stay in bed. Why were these striking miners attending their workplaces?