In March 1984, coal miners in Britain walked out on strike against the pit closure plan of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government.

Miners' wives and other women started support groups up and down the country which were instrumental in helping the workers hold out for nearly a year, in an iconic dispute which changed Britain forever.

This is working class history.

In today's episode, we're going to be talking about the crucial role women played in the Great Minor Strike of 1984 to 5, and we are very pleased to be joined by Heather Wood, who

was chair of the Easington Women's Support Group in County Durham, North East England.

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We are going to be doing other episodes about the strike, so I'll just give a very brief

historical background here. At the time, coal miners in the National Union of Mine Workers

were the best organized and most militant section of the working class in Britain.

Miners held successful nationwide strikes in 1972 and 1974 when they brought down the

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