Miners Strike

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Daily history of the Miners' Strike 1984-5.

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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"

“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

“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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#OnThisDay 1984. Thousands of striking miners and supporters from coalfields across the country march through London.

#OnThisDay 1984. The National Coal Board grant working Nottinghamshire miners a day off with pay to demonstrate against the #MinersStrike 7,000 miners demonstrate at Berry Hill in Mansfield.

#OnThisDay 1985. Miners at Fryston colliery discuss scabs.

“I must tell you that what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law, and it must not succeed. It must not succeed.” #OnThisDay 1984. Margaret Thatcher comments on the picketing at Orgreave

"Don't cross picket lines because if you cross picket lines it's scabbing and it's about time Notts miners stopped being scabs" #OnThisDay 1984. Nottinghamshire miners leaders, Ray Chadburn and Henry Richardson, call on their miners to join #MinersStrike

#OnThisDay 1984. Christmas turkeys are delivered to families at Bedlinog, South Wales. Seven thousand turkeys had been bought with donations given to the Miners Relief Fund.

"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.

Women Against Pit Closures on the picket line at Hatfield Main Colliery in February 1985.

#OnThisDay 1984. Labour leader Neil Kinnock says his diary was full and therefore couldn't attended rallies in support of the #MinersStrike

#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.

“Ministers have lied and lied and LIED about the mining industry” #OnThisDay 1992. Tony Benn speaks in the Houses of Parliament over pit closures.

#OnThisDay 1984. Miners block the entrance to the South Wales miners’ headquarters in Pontypridd to prevent access by High Court commissioners.

"If I grovel long enough I'll get a knighthood" Dennis Skinner on journalists and news media coverage of the #MinersStrike

#OnThisDay in 1986. The Wapping dispute began. In scenes similar to Orgreave mounted police charged into crowds during the dispute without warning.

“I call on behalf of the national union - on every single working miner to stop work and join this dispute” Arthur Scargill #OnThisDay 1984

#OnThisDay 1981. The National Union of Mineworkers executives pledge to fight the proposed closure of up to fifty pits and the loss of 20,000 jobs. An unprepared Thatcher government would later back down against the threat of strike action.