Forty Years of Strife. From the Great Miners’ Strike of 1984-1985 to the Strike Surge of the Early 2020s
IntroductionThe year 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Miners’ Strike of 1984-1985. Commemorative events were held in former mining communities, some featuring prominent actors of the time, while six left-wing Labour MPs tabled an early day motion which both castigated...
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2025
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | IntroductionThe year 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Miners’ Strike of 1984-1985. Commemorative events were held in former mining communities, some featuring prominent actors of the time, while six left-wing Labour MPs tabled an early day motion which both castigated the “weaponisation of the state [...] by those at the highest level against ordinary men and women” and paid tribute to “some of the finest orators, organisers and activists anyone could care to me... |
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