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Daily history of the Miners' Strike 1984-5.
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“I say to the people of Britain, if you stand aside while miners are beaten to the ground by a paramilitary police force in riot gear - what they do to us today they’ll do to you tomorrow”. #OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill speaks about #Orgreave
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A good time to remind everyone of this scottish lady who was interviewed when margaret thatcher died. "i'd put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she never comes back"
#OnThisDay 1984. Margaret Thatcher describes striking miners as the ‘enemy within’. “In the Falklands we had to fight the enemy without. Here the enemy is within - and it’s much more difficult to fight but just as dangerous to liberty.”
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In the dark welsh valley, .On the mountain side, .Lay the little children .Close to where they died. Their little lives are ended .Before they reach their goal, .Tender little children .Have paid the price of coal. We will never forget - Aberfan 21-10-66 #AberfanDisaster
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#OnThisDay 1984. A convoy carrying 130 tons of food left London and headed north to mining communities in Yorkshire and the Midlands. The convoy was organised by the print union Sogat 82.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Labour MP Dennis Skinner, called on all Labour MP’s to donate the 5 percent pay increase they will receive on New Year's Day to the National Union of Mineworkers. During the #MinersStrike Dennis Skinner gave up all of his parliamentary income to the miners.
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“They shall not starve”. #OnThisDay 1984. A convoy carrying 130 tons of food left London and headed north to mining communities in Yorkshire and the Midlands.
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#OnThisDay 1984. The Grand Hotel in Brighton was bombed by the IRA. The hotel was hosting the Conservative Party conference
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"If this lot were seals or whales, you'd all be up in bloody arms. But they’re not, are they? No, no they're not. They're just ordinary common-or-garden honest, decent human beings". Pete Postlethwaite in Brassed Off. Released #OnThisDay 1996.
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In the dark welsh valley, .On the mountain side, .Lay the little children .Close to where they died. Their little lives are ended .Before they reach their goal, .Tender little children .Have paid the price of coal. We will never forget - Aberfan 21-10-66 #AberfanDisaster
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Happy birthday to Dennis Skinner who turns 92 today.
"If I grovel long enough I'll get a knighthood". Dennis Skinner on journalists and news media coverage of the #MinersStrike
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#OnThisDay 1984. Margaret Thatcher describes striking miners as the ‘enemy within’. “In the Falklands we had to fight the enemy without. Here the enemy is within - and it’s much more difficult to fight but just as dangerous to liberty.”
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#OnThisDay 1984. Miners block the entrance to the South Wales miners’ headquarters in Pontypridd to prevent access by High Court commissioners.
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#OnThisDay 1985. Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn demands an emergency House of Commons debate on the #MinersStrike
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During the #MinersStrike Liverpool dockers collected food and funds in solidarity with striking miners.
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“Any Prime Minister of Britain who confuses a Fascist dictator who invades British sovereign territory with British trade unions and with miners, I think is not fit to govern this country.”. #OnThisDay 1984. Neil Kinnock on Thatcher’s description of miners as the ‘enemy within’.
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Thatcher’s brutal war on miners should be taught in our schools 👇.
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Unseen footage from the police brutality at Orgreave 👇.
Previous unseen 👀 footage of #Orgreave #MinersStrike1984 @orgreavejustice @Miners_Strike @tribunemagazine @novaramedia @RedhillsDurham @NUJofficial link 🔗 here
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Ricky Tomlinson on coal and a message to Margaret Thatcher (2006)
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"If I grovel long enough I'll get a knighthood". Dennis Skinner on journalists and news media coverage of the #MinersStrike
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“I think I’d starve without these food parcels”. #OnThisDay 1984. The first food parcels from the Soviet Union began to arrive to striking miners in Wigan.
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"If this lot were seals or whales, you'd all be up in bloody arms. But they’re not, are they? No, no they're not. They're just ordinary common-or-garden honest, decent human beings". Pete Postlethwaite in Brassed Off. Released #OnThisDay 1996.
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#OnThisDay 1984. The #BattleOfOrgreave takes place. At least 79 people were injured in the worst displays of police violence during the #MinersStrike
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A policeman, seen by millions on TV, repeatedly striking a miner with a truncheon at Orgreave is not to face any criminal charges. The announcement came from the Director of Public Prosecutions #OnThisDay 1984.
#OnThisDay 1984. The infamous police assault upon miners takes place at Orgreave. At least 79 people were injured in the worst displays of police brutality seen during the #MinersStrike
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During the #MinersStrike Liverpool dockers collected food and funds in solidarity with striking miners.
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This is disgraceful.
Keir Starmer praises Margaret Thatcher for bringing ‘meaningful change’ to UK
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#OnThisDay 1984. The iconic picture taken by Don McPhee during the picketing of #Orgreave featured at the Ilford Photographic Awards in London and won a £250 prize.
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During the #MinersStrike French trade unionists delivered 400 tonnes of food and medical supplies, worth an estimated £50,000, to the families of striking miners.
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#OnThisDay 1984. The infamous police assault upon miners takes place at Orgreave. At least 79 people were injured in the worst displays of police brutality seen during the #MinersStrike
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February 1985. Miners at Fryston colliery on those who are breaking the strike.
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#OnThisDay 1984. The iconic picture taken by Don McPhee at Orgreave was featured at the Ilford Photographic Awards in London and won a £250 prize.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Miners block the entrance to the South Wales miners’ headquarters in Pontypridd to prevent access by High Court commissioners.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Labour MP Dennis Skinner, called on all Labour MP’s to donate the 5% pay increase they will receive on New Year's Day to the National Union of Mineworkers.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Labour MP @jeremycorbyn sends a message of solidarity to South Yorkshire miners during #MinersStrike
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During the #MinersStrike a lorry load of food is unloaded and sorted at Kellingley Colliery, Yorkshire. The food was collected by French trade unionists in Solidarity with striking miners.
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August, 1984. Josie Smith, a retired and disabled ex-miner is arrested outside his home in Easington. His distraight wife Dot tries to prevent the police taking him away.
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#OnThisDay 1985. The Pride march through London was led by miners and their families under the Blaenant Lodge banner. @LGSMpride #PrideMonth
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#OnThisDay 1984. More than two tonnes of toys for striking miners’ children in Ayrshire was ferried from Northern Ireland onboard a small fishing boat. The toys came with donations of food given in Belfast.
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“Over 2,000 of our members have been injured on picket lines. Two have been killed and one man is in intensive care with a fractured skull. Don’t talk to me about violence.”. Arthur Scargill on picket line violence #OnThisDay 1984.
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It’s 10 years to the day since Tony Benn passed away 💔.
“Ministers have lied and lied and LIED about the mining industry”. #OnThisDay 1992. Tony Benn speaks in the Houses of Parliament over pit closures.
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Women Against Pit Closures on the picket line at Hatfield Main Colliery.
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August, 1984. Josie Smith, a retired and disabled ex-miner is arrested outside his home in Easington. His distraight wife Dot tries to prevent the police taking him away.
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#OnThisDay 1985. The Pride march through London was led by miners and their families under the Blaenant Lodge banner. @LGSMpride #PrideMonth
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“At Orgreave, us miners, we experienced firsthand the full power of state against industrial workers” 1/
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#OnThisDay 1984. Striking miners' children leave for a holiday in France, courtesy of the French trade union CGT.
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#OnThisDay 1990. Mardy colliery, the last pit in the Rhondda Valley, closes. The final 300 miners had their last shift on 21 December 1990 in a valley which had previously employed more than 4,000 men.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Labour leader Neil Kinnock says he is too busy to speak at a series of rallies in support of the #MinersStrike.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Labour MP Tony Benn is returned to parliament after winning the Chesterfield by-election.
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“If the miners are picked off one by one, everybody else will go down the chute. Solidarity is essential.”. Tony Benn gives his political support to the #MinersStrike #OnThisDay 1984.
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“Ministers have lied and lied and LIED about the mining industry” . #OnThisDay 1992. Tony Benn speaks in the Houses of Parliament over pit closures.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Tony Benn calls for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the conduct of the police during the #MinersStrike
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#OnThisDay 1984. Two hundred celebrities back a Christmas appeal for striking miners and their families in hopes to raise £50,000. Among the appeal’s signatories are Billy Connolly, Judi Dench, Glenda Jackson, Rik Mayall and Spike Milligan.
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#OnThisDay 1984. A Yorkshire miner explains the importance of strike action over pit closures.
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"If this lot were seals or whales, you'd all be up in bloody arms. But they’re not, are they? No, no they're not. They're just ordinary common-or-garden honest, decent human beings". Pete Postlethwaite in Brassed Off. Released #OnThisDay 1996.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Striking miners' children leave for a holiday in France, courtesy of the French trade union CGT. Photo credit: @MJImageLibrary #MinersStrike
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Buying an ice cream at Yorkshire Miners’ Gala. June 1984.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Labour MP Tony Benn is returned to parliament after winning the Chesterfield by-election.
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#OnThisDay 1985. The Pride march through London was led by miners and their families under the Blaenant Lodge banner. @LGSMpride #PrideMonth
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#OnThisDay 1984. Riot police arrive into the mining village of Easington. For the next two weeks the village would become under police occupation.
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“They are not ‘the enemy within’ … the average striking miner is a decent good conscientious man, at the moment caring for his community, with a loyal supporting wife behind him, fighting for something that matters deeply.”. Bishop of Doncaster, William Persson #OnThisDay 1984.
#OnThisDay 1984. Margaret Thatcher describes striking miners as the ‘enemy within’. “In the Falklands we had to fight the enemy without. Here the enemy is within - and it’s much more difficult to fight but just as dangerous to liberty.”
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“All I know is that these bastards rushed in and this guy hit me on the back of the head with a shield and I was out.”. #OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill, sustained head, leg and arm injuries during the infamous police assault upon miners at Orgreave.
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Print workers refused to print the picture and lead headline of @TheSun in a historic mark of union militancy and journalistic accountability during the #MinersStrike
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#OnThisDay 1984. Fifty-one Labour members of Liverpool City Council joined picket lines in a show of support at the Point of Ayr Colliery in Wales.
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Police brutality at Orgreave occurred #OnThisDay 1984. "Miners were violently attacked by mounted police yet the news media told a different story, designed to demonise the strike – and convince ordinary people that trade unions were their enemy".
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#OnThisDay 1984. Riot police arrive into the mining village of Easington. For the next two weeks the village would become under police occupation.
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#OnThisDay 1984. The infamous police assault upon miners takes place at Orgreave. Personal testimonies reveal the extent of police violence 👇.
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“I want to make it clear that if the offense I have committed is contempt, I plead guilty. because the only crime I have committed is to fight for my class and my members.”. Arthur Scargill #OnThisDay 1984.
#OnThisDay 1984. ITN News reports from the Labour Party conference in Blackpool as Arthur Scargill was served with a writ to appear in the High Court for an alleged contempt of court.
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#OnThisDay 1985. The Women Against Pit Closures movement announces that they have raised £70,000 after an appeal to help striking miners’ families.
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January 1985. Women Against Pit Closures soup kitchen at Mitchell & Darfield social club in Wombwell, south Yorkshire.
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#OnThisDay 1984. French trade unionists sent 400 tonnes of food and medical supplies, worth an estimated £50,000, to the families of striking miners. The supplies were delivered to Arthur Scargill in Dover with a cheque for £10,000.
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#OnThisDay 1985. Labour MP @jeremycorbyn demands an emergency House of Commons debate on the #MinersStrike.
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#OnThisDay 1985. More than 3,000 striking miners staged a “no surrender” demonstration at Cortonwood colliery in South Yorkshire. It is the first mass picket for more than two months and was met with police in riot gear.
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#OnThisDay in 1986. The Wapping dispute began. In scenes similar to the #Orgreave mounted police charged into crowds during the dispute without warning.
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Final episode airs tonight on channel 4. Thoughts on the documentary so far?.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Four out of five trains scheduled to deliver iron ore to the Llanwern steelworks in South Wales were cancelled. Train crews refused to cross the miners’ picket line outside the plant.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Around 17,000 turkeys were delivered from France to Murton miners’ welfare hall in County Durham. The turkeys were sent on to miners families across the north-east of England.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Thousands of striking miners and supporters from coalfields across the country march through London.
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#OnThisDay 1984. Tony Benn addresses the Labour Party conference in Blackpool as members vote in support of the #MinersStrike
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“We don’t want to be martyrs. We are only members of the working class asking for the right to live, for security and to bring up our families decently. That is being denied us.”. South Wales miners’ leader Emlyn Williams #OnThisDay 1984.
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#OnThisDay 1994. British Coal closed Tower Colliery in south Wales on grounds that it would be uneconomic to continue production. 239 miners raised their own funds, pledging £8,000 each from their redundancy payouts to buy the mine in January 1995.
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#OnThisDay 1984. The #BattleOfOrgreave takes place. Personal testimonies of those at Orgreave reveal the extent of police violence . [A Thread] 👇.
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#OnThisDay 2015. The last remaining deep mine in Britain, Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire closes.
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Tony Benn addresses the Labour Party conference in Blackpool as members vote in support of the #MinersStrike
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By December 1984, Britain's miners had been on strike for nine months – but local and international solidarity brought them everything from turkeys to children's toys, and stopped even Thatcher from crushing their festive spirit.
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During the #MinersStrike Dennis Skinner gave up all of his parliamentary income to the striking miners.
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“They are not ‘the enemy within’ … the average striking miner is a decent good conscientious man, at the moment caring for his community, with a loyal supporting wife behind him, fighting for something that matters deeply.”. Bishop of Doncaster, William Persson #OnThisDay 1984.
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