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The Coal Strike. Scenes at the Pit Head. The Last Miners ‘Special’ Leaves for Home

Date released

21 Oct 1920

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1000

NoS ID

078135

Story no

6 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Miners leaving pit head and alighting from train. Group outside pit head office. ‘South Wales Miners Handing in their Lamps’.

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: US Coal Strike

Date released

28 Nov 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

912A

NoS ID

014172

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Coal Strike in America Continues. DESCRIPTION: The American coal miners’ strike followed the calling off by John L Lewis of the Union contract with the Government. SHOTLIST: KS Miners...

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Rumours at the Miners’ Fortnight (1983 Video)

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

South Wales miners and their families on their annual holiday in Trecco Bay discuss their history, the General Election of 1983, the forecast pit closures, the Falklands War, and the future and past of South...

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English Civil War - Part II, The (2002 Audio)

Subject

Art; Politics & government

Distribution

Audio (CD), £19.95

A book of essays on the 1984-85 miners’ strike and the 2001 re-enactment of the stand-off in Orgreave, organised by Jeremy Deller and sponsored by Artangel. The accompanying CD contains poetry and songs...

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Still the Enemy Within (2014)

Director

Owen Gower

Producer

Owen Gower

Subject

Politics & government; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 mins), £12.49

The film tells the story of the 1984-85 British miners’ strike. Thirty years on, this is the first-hand experience of those who lived through Britain’s longest strike. In 1984, a conservative government...

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Miners’ Wives Protest. Coal Strike Denounced in Rhondda Valley

Date released

20 Sep 1920

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

991

NoS ID

078077

Story no

1 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Crowd of miners’ wives at protest meeting.

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Which Side Are You on? (1984 Video)

Producer

Ken Loach

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 52 min.

Documents aspects of the miners’ strike which began in March 1984, showing the ‘battle of Orgreave’ and the part played by the miners’ wives, the mass arrests of pickets and violence on the picket...

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Miners’ Strike, The: Twenty Years on (2009)

Subject

History; Politics & government

The Miners’ Strike arouses debate like few other contemporary political events. The 25th anniversary re-opened old divisions, with arguments still raging around the miners’ leadership, the motives of the...

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Miners Strike Ballot Paper

Date released

30 Aug 1920

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

698

NoS ID

081515

Story no

5 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

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Miners strike - Arthur Scargill on Nottinghamshire miners (1984)

Genre

Press conference

Press conference with NUM leader Arthur Scargill in Nottinghamshire on persuading the Nottingham miners to join the strike and the number of miners already on strike in the area.

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