Gouiffes, Pierre-François, Margaret Thatcher and the Miners (PDF), p.322 , retrieved 19 January 2015 Val McDermid's novel A Darker Domain (2008) has a plotline set in the strike. Multiple reviewers gave the book acclaim for exploring its social and emotional repercussions. [137] [138] [139]

Britain's Nationalised collieries from 1947". Northern Mine Research Society. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014 . Retrieved 6 March 2009. Includes lists of mine closure dates. Peter, Gibbon. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 1984–5." Economy and Society 17.2 (1988): 139–194.a b "Colliery closure reversed in crisis coalfield". The Guardian. 6 March 1984 . Retrieved 26 April 2015. a b Howell, David; etal. (1987). "Goodbye to All That?: A review of literature on the 1984/5 miners' strike". Work, Employment & Society. 1 (3): 388–404. doi: 10.1177/0950017087001003007. JSTOR 23745863. S2CID 154609889. Maria Margaronis (22 February 2017). "The Most Important Post-Brexit Election Is Taking Place in This Small City". The Nation. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx Adeney, Martin; Lloyd, John (1988). The Miners' Strike 1984–5: Loss Without Limit. London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7102-1371-9. The end was nigh, though. After a 5-0 hammering at Old Trafford and a 4-0 defeat at home to Luton, Asprey’s time was running out. Initially suspended by the board for “events on and off the pitch”, there was very little chance of a return. The divorce was a messy affair. Asprey felt badly let down, accused the board of making him a scapegoat and said that the strain of the job had come close to breaking his own health.

Vinen, Richard. Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era (2010) chapter 7. Britain to have just one remaining coal pit after UK Coal announces closures". Telegraph.co.uk. 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. It was something in your face. I thought I'd take a chance. I'm good at spotting people who don't Sir Peter Gregson, civil servant – obituary: Whitehall mandarin who helped lay the groundwork for Mrs Thatcher's defeat of Arthur Scargill," The Telegraph 21 Dec 2015No. don't come up to me until you see me among a lot of people. And don't look at me. Just keep somewhere near me.’ a b Hutton, Guthrie (2005). Coal Not Dole – Memories of the 1984/85 Miners' Strike. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84033-329-9. a b Bell, David (2009). The Dirty Thirty: Heroes of the Miners' Strike. Nottingham: Five Leaves. pp.7, 10. ISBN 978-1-90551267-6. a b c d e Towards Confrontation in Callinicos, Alex; Simons, Mike (1985). The great strike: the miners strike of 1984–5 and its lessons. London: Socialist Worker. ISBN 0-905998-50-2.

a b c d e f "We could surrender – or stand and fight". The Guardian. London. 7 March 2009 . Retrieved 9 February 2017. Shaw, Katy. Mining The Meaning: Cultural Representations of the 1984–5 UK Miners' Strike (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). Murray, Robin (20 March 2017). "Public Service Broadcasting Announce New Album 'Every Valley' ". Clash. Music Republic Ltd. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017 . Retrieved 20 March 2017. In 2009, Scargill wrote that the settlement agreed with NACODS and the NCB would have ended the strike and said, "The monumental betrayal by NACODS has never been explained in a way that makes sense." [16] Court judgments on legality of strike [ edit ]

Callinicos, Alex; Simons, Mike (1985). The great strike: the miners strike of 1984–5 and its lessons. London: Socialist Worker. ISBN 0-905998-50-2. Our part of the country benefited from huge amounts of EU money for infrastructure but people didn’t realise that. They stopped listening to the arguments [to stay in]. It [voting leave] was an emotional response to a feeling that they’d been betrayed for 30 years.”

In 1983, Thatcher appointed Ian MacGregor to head the National Coal Board. He had turned the British Steel Corporation from one of the least efficient steel-makers in Europe to one of the most efficient, bringing the company into near profit. [39] :99–100 Success was achieved at the expense of halving the workforce in two years and he had overseen a 14-week national strike in 1980. His tough reputation raised expectations that coal jobs would be cut on a similar scale and confrontations between MacGregor and Scargill seemed inevitable. From 1981, the NUM was led by Arthur Scargill, a militant trade unionist and socialist, with strong leanings towards communism. [26] [27] [28] Scargill was a vocal opponent of Thatcher's government. In March 1983, he stated "The policies of this government are clear – to destroy the coal industry and the NUM". [29] Scargill wrote in the NUM journal The Miner: "Waiting in the wings, wishing to chop us to pieces, is Yankee steel butcher MacGregor. This 70-year-old multi-millionaire import, who massacred half the steel workforce in less than three years, is almost certainly brought in to wield the axe on pits. It's now or never for Britain's mineworkers. This is the final chance – while we still have the strength – to save our industry". [30] On 12 May 1983, in response to being questioned on how he would respond if the Conservatives were re-elected in the general election, Scargill replied: "My attitude would be the same as the attitude of the working class in Germany when the Nazis came to power. It does not mean that because at some stage you elect a government that you tolerate its existence. You oppose it". [31] He also said he would oppose a second-term Thatcher government "as vigorously as I possibly can". [31] After the election, Scargill called for extra-parliamentary action against the Conservative government in a speech to the NUM conference in Perth on 4 July 1983: Lyons, James (3 January 2014). "Miners' strike: Margaret Thatcher was prepared to declare state of emergency and use 4,500 troops to break unions". mirror.

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Born and bred in Worksop, once the area’s industrial powerhouse, Whitehead believes demographic changes also have a lot to do with Labour losing a quarter of its votes in Bassetlaw at the last general election and a 7% swing to the Tories in neighbouring Bolsover, where Dennis Skinner lost his seat after 49 years. The strike was ruled illegal in September 1984, as no national ballot of NUM members had been held. [8] It ended on 3 March 1985. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, the NUM's defeat significantly weakening the trade union movement. It was a major victory for Thatcher and the Conservative Party, with the Thatcher government able to consolidate their economic programme. The number of strikes fell sharply in 1985 as a result of the " demonstration effect" and trade union power in general diminished. [2] Three deaths resulted from events related to the strike.