National Union of Mineworkers

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Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK was one of twenty Scottish authors invited to contribute a monologue to a collaborative work entitled Dear Scotland, which was first performed by the Scottish National Theatre on 24 April 2014 as a...

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9 January 1972: British miners represented by the National...

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9 January 1972

British miners represented by the National Union of Mineworkers came out on strike after its negotiations with the National Coal Board ended in stalemate.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974.
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From March or April 1984: The National Union of Mineworkers or NUM,...

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From March or April 1984

The National Union of Mineworkers or NUM, led by Arthur Scargill , struck against pit closures by Margaret Thatcher 's Tory government, which retaliated with riot police and efforts to make non-local pickets illegal.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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Nairn, Tom. “The Sound of Thunder”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 19, 8 Oct. 2009, pp. 29-30.
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18 June 1984: Ninety-five people picketing in support of...

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18 June 1984

Ninety-five people picketing in support of the miners' strike (by members of the National Union of Mineworkers ) clashed with police at Orgreave near Sheffield, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in...

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