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The Battle of Orgreave was a violent confrontation on 18 June 1984 between pickets and officers of the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) and other police forces, including the Metropolitan Police, at a British Steel Corporation (BSC) coking plant at Orgreave, in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. [1]
Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story is an 88-minute BBC Two documentary film about the 1984 UK miners' strike including the Battle of Orgreave.The film splices archive footage of the strikes, with stories from 15 individuals who were directly involved on the both sides of the events, including the miners and the police force.
Plaque at Gay's the Word celebrating Mark Ashton and LGSM. Three months into the strike, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) was established by Communist Party of Great Britain activist Mark Ashton, Mike Jackson, and their friends, after they had collected donations for the miners at the 1984 Lesbian and Gay Pride march in London. [4]
For many women, the miners' strike of 1984 transformed their lives. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail ...
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During that strike, Margaret Thatcher’s government used the state to violently crush the miners and their communities.” Mr Wrack said 11,313 miners were arrested, around 7,000 injured, 5,653 ...
The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent closures of pits that the government deemed "uneconomic" in the coal industry, which had been nationalised in 1947.
[4] He provoked Yorkshire miners by telling them that they were less productive than women miners in the US. [1] MacGregor's approach to turning the NCB into a profitable concern was similar to the line he had taken at British Steel: cut jobs and close unprofitable pits. This led to the protracted and increasingly bitter 1984–1985 miner's strike.