Myths of the Miners' Strike

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Britain’s Miners’ Strike conjures up strong emotions to this day – despite 40 years having passed since the confrontation. But what are the common misconceptions of this period of history? And how are its effects still being felt today? Andrew Harrison asks Robert Gildea, emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Oxford, about the enduring legacy of the Miners’ Strike. • “The slogan was ‘close a pit, kill a community’ – and there was indeed devastation across mining communities in the decade after the strikes.” – Robert Gildea • "There was a kind of ‘alternative welfare state’ that was set up largely by the miners’ wives who sustained striking miners and their families. Women came into their own.” – Robert Gildea Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Listen to the latest episode of Jam Tomorrow on the coal industry: https://listen.podmasters.uk/JT2404coal Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson and artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.2	40 years ago this year Britain was convulsed by the last great industrial
1:19.3	confrontation of the Trade Union era, the miners strike of 1984 to 1985,
1:25.0	when three quarters of Britain's 180,000 miners fought the Thatcher government's plans to close down 20 pits.
1:32.0	Vastly politically significant, the strike generated
1:35.6	appalling hardship in pit communities and scenes of violence that were
1:39.3	almost impossible to believe on British soil, particularly the notorious battle of Orgrieve,
1:45.0	where 6,000 police with dogs and horses
1:47.0	attacked pickets with the brutality that was unprecedented in modern times.
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