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The Miners Strike 1984
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Добавлен 20 ноя 2006
This channel has been created as a historical archive of video and media clips on the Miners Strike 1984 - 85. This channel is an offshoot of 'The History Academy.' All the videos that have been quality assured for use in the classroom for students in KS3, KS4, and KS5 have been uploaded here: @historyacademy
All the videos are set for adults to watch, and we invite survivors and eyewitnesses to events to comment to help create a resource for posterity. However, we would ask that people respect the RUclips Community Guidelines.
For an excellent report on Dave Dixon: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3414723.stm
All the videos are set for adults to watch, and we invite survivors and eyewitnesses to events to comment to help create a resource for posterity. However, we would ask that people respect the RUclips Community Guidelines.
For an excellent report on Dave Dixon: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3414723.stm
Intro - What was it like to be a striking Hatfield Miner in 1984?
This video clip has been borrowed from the BBC Documentary 'The Miners Strike.' It has been uploaded to honour the sacrifices made by the Hatfield miners for their community and as a resource for professional development and adult educational purposes. You can find content that is suitable for use in the classroom on our sister site - The History Academy, which can be found at this this link: www.youtube.com/@historyacademy
If you would like to share your experiences on the MIners' Strike as an eye witness from the period 1984 - 1985, then we would invite you to do some by commenting on the videos. The passions aroused by the MIners' Strike are still very real and alive so I would ask poep...
If you would like to share your experiences on the MIners' Strike as an eye witness from the period 1984 - 1985, then we would invite you to do some by commenting on the videos. The passions aroused by the MIners' Strike are still very real and alive so I would ask poep...
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My Strike - the history of trade unionism in the 1970s & 80s
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This BBC documentary looks at the history of trade unionism during the 1970s and 80s. It covers the Ford Dagnaham Workers, The Winter of Discontent and the Miners' Strike 1984 - 85. This video has been uploaded for educational purposes for students of modern British History.
What tactics did the police use during the Miners' Strike?
Просмотров 98Год назад
This video clip was borrowed from the BBC documentary 'My Strike' which looked at the history of trade unionism in the 1970s and 80s. This clip has been uploaded for educational purposes and focuses on police tactics during the Miners' Strike and features an interview with Ann Scargill.
How did the Miners' Strike affect peoples lives?
Просмотров 29Год назад
This video clip was borrowed from the BBC documentary 'My Strike' which looked at the history of trade unionism in the 1970s and 80s. This clip has been uploaded for educational purposes and focuses on how the Miners Strike affected peoples lives in the short and the long term.
What impact did the Miners' Strike have on family income?
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This video clip was borrowed from the BBC documentary 'My Strike' which looked at the history of trade unionism in the 1970s and 80s. This clip has been uploaded for educational purposes and focuses on the impact of the Miners Strike 1984 - 85 on family income.
Why do people go on strike?
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This video clip was borrowed from the BBC documentary 'My Strike' which looked at the history of trade unionism in the 1970s and 80s. This clip has been uploaded for educational purposes and focuses on why people go on strike.
Burning Issues - Miners' Strike
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This video featuring Dave Douglass looks at a range of issues to do with the Miners' Strike. It includes interviews, commentary, and music inspired by the Strike. It was filmed on 13:3:04 at the Hetton Cente, Hetton'le Hole, County Durham. If you are looking for a fun and engaging lesson on the causes of the Miners' Strike, then please check out market place activity which aims to get students ...
What motivates people to go on strike?
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This clip, borrowed from the C4 documentary 'My Strike' looks at what motivates people to go on strike and includes a range of interviews with people who went on strike in the 1970s. This video has been uploaded for educational purposes. It is aimed at adults so that people can comment and share their experiences. If you are looking for content that is suitable to use with children, then please...
How professional were police tactics during the MIners' Strike?
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This clip looks at how the police treated the wives of striking miners and subjected them to strip searches, abuse and brutality. It has been uploaded for educational purposes. If you experienced the Miners' Strike, please feel free to comment and share your experiences whilst being mindful of RUclips's community values.
How did the Miners' Strike affect peoples lives?
Просмотров 190Год назад
This clip from the C4 documentary 'My Strike' looks at how the Miners' Strike affected peoples lives. It has been uploaded for educational purposes. If you were affected by the Miners' Strike, please feel free to comment and share your experiences. Please be mindful of RUclips's community guidelines. If you are looking for a fun and interactive market place activity that looks at the different ...
Closure of Maltby 2013
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This BBC Look North espisode looks at the closure of Malby Collery in 2013 and the impact on the local community. It has been uploaded for educational purposes. If you have anty videos that could be added to our channe, then please get in touch. Lets preserve our coal mining heritage. The pit wheels may have stopped turning, but the coal embers are still burning, deep in the hearts of South Yor...
Saving Big Pit Welsh Mining Heritage
Просмотров 151Год назад
This excellent video looks at how former Welsh coal miners have tried to preserve their coal mining heritage by preserving 'Big Pit' and create a national coal mining musuem. This video has been uploaded for educational purposes. If you have any footage of the Miners' Strike in Wales, then please get in touch. If you are looking for a fun and engaging lesson on the causes of the Miners' Strike,...
Living With the Enemy: Dave Douglass and Lord Rowallan
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In this espisode of 'Living the Enemy', Dave Douglass and Lord Rowallan get to know each other and their respective views on politics. This video has been uploaded for educational purposes. If you are looking for a fun and engaging lesson on the causes of the Miners' Strike, then please check out market place activity which aims to get students gathering and sharing information on the key cause...
My Strike
Просмотров 43Год назад
The documentary 'My Strike' was filmed by Channel 4 and looks at the history of trade unionism in the 1970s and 80s. It covers a wide range of themes including why people went on strike, the winter of discontent, the impact on families and the MIners' Strike in 1984 - 85. It has been uploaded for educational purposes.
What impact did the strike have on family income?
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This clip was borrowed from the C4 series 'My Strike' and looks at the impact of the Miners' Strike on family income. It includes an interview with Ann Scargill. It has been uploaded for educational purposes. If you are were affected personally by the Miners' Strike, then please feel free to share your experiences in the comment section for the historical record. Please be mindful of RUclips's ...
What were the miners fighting for during the Miners' Strike?
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What were the miners fighting for during the Miners' Strike?
Why was the Miners' Strike a significant turning point in British history?
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Why was the Miners' Strike a significant turning point in British history?
Police brutality during the Miners' Strike
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Police brutality during the Miners' Strike
Police Brutality at Easington Collery, 1984
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Police Brutality at Easington Collery, 1984
Poem on the Consequences of Pit Closurers
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Poem on the Consequences of Pit Closurers
Part 2 - Which Side Are You On by Ken Loach
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Part 2 - Which Side Are You On by Ken Loach
Part 1 - Which Side Are You On by Ken Loach
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Part 1 - Which Side Are You On by Ken Loach
Mother's Poem to her children about the Miners' Strike
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Mother's Poem to her children about the Miners' Strike
Miner's interpretation of the policing of the MIners' Strike
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Miner's interpretation of the policing of the MIners' Strike
Economic Impact of the Miners' Strike on their families
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Economic Impact of the Miners' Strike on their families
If you don't like being called a scab, then don't become one.
Hatfield colliery was in Stainforth not hatfield
Putin has outlawed the other democratic parties and passed laws preventing people from going on strike in Russia. Does that make strikes and protests against his regime, technically illegal yes, but not morally wrong. There are different types of progress. The boffins at the NBC were working on carbon capture. Maybe if their work had not been stopped by the closure of the coal industry, maybe China's new coal powered stations would be fitted with technology that would have reversed climate change. There are many what 'ifs' but you can not change the fact that 80% of Nottinghamshire Miners betrayed not only the coal mining community but future generations within their own communities . That mark of Cain will be on their souls when they are judged by God and sent to the fiery pits of hell. They betrayed their fellow Miners for 40 pieces of silver .... which side are you on lad? Good or Evil?
I hope I never come across Phil rule, what a pos
Is there anything that could of saved the British coal industry? Was ideology placed above logic? I wish the industry had survived but is it fair to take money out of other people’s pockets to subsidise pits that don’t make money regardless of the fact that the communities were gonna cost taxpayers either way? I do believe big business took control of the government a long time ago and have sold the country out but I don’t think socialism was ever the solution. Just my opinion tho
Most countries have a wealth fund that they have built up from selling North Sea oil. Mrs Thatcher used that to subsidize 3 million unemployed. There has to have been a better way to invest that money and help communities transition from coal. The absolute devastation and deprivation that the pit closures led to has resulted in inter generational crime, deprivation and unemployment, which far exceeds any small savings they initially made switching to gas and alternative sources of coal. It was a bad decision driven by ideology and revenge
Greatorex was vermin🐀
Scargill began a fight he could not win, and in the process destroyed the NUM.
If only they'd had a Palestinian flag.
Scargill destroyed the coal industry by starting a fight he could not win.
I think that the decision to destroy the coal industry was taken before the strike. That's why they stockpiled the coal. The strike was to protect the coal industry. Everytime the NUM negoiated a deal with the NCB, during the strike, it was cancelled by the government. As for starting the strike, each area was asked to ballot on whether they wanted to strike and only Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire said 'no', the rest said yes, as did the executive body of the NUM. To blame it on one individual is wrong. Scargill told both the striking miners at Cortonwood and the NUM executive body that they could not win the strike. However, as President he had to carry out their decision. Its all a matter of historical record. The miners lost the strike because the Nottinghamshire Miners thought that their new deep pits would be safe. Their greed and lack of soidarity for the rest of the industry lost the miners the strike. That was the core idea at the heart of Thatcherism, selfish individualism. Even if the miners had won the strike, the coal industry would have been shut down, that was the goal of the Conservatives. I am sorry, but you are wrong to simply blame Scargill. Its far more complex than that. Whatever, the rights or wrongs, there are two villains in this piece of history, the governmet and the Nottinghamshire Miners who refused to go on strike. The heroes are the miners who showed solidarity to each other. As for the rest, its pretty grey as opposed to black and white. I wasn't involved so its not for me to call people names, but I understand why many striking miners felt betrayed. That doesn't excuse the use of violence, but can you trust the accounts of people who are motivated by greed and betrayed their fellow miners? Its all a matter of interpretation.
@@historyacademy The strike was illegal. It was never going to stop progress in any case.
stunning video
They speak from the heart and tell it how it was
Scabs
Pity south Wales miners weren't welcome at Yorkshire mines when Welsh mines were closed ? What was it they were told Yorkshire mines for Yorkshire miners ! Unity my arse
Once the strike was lost, the whole of society became one big sack full of rats fighting it out. I doubt very much whether you'd want to iive in a drug and crime infested former mining village in South Yorkshire. From what I've seen, Wales is a far more prettier and healthy place to live.
@@historyacademy The greater thirsted for victory is of dark over light...to try and turn man against man...area vs area, and to create a sense of inevitability, apathy and futility.
National ballot was an excuse / just like the national ballot on the area incentive scheme ??
Scabs
Grow up.
I guess you had to be there, when men tried to beat you to death at 6 in the morning when you went to vote.....kind of hardens your heart....any regrets for standing up to Arthur's thugs? None. Arthur closed pits even faster than the Tories...
I walked past Markham Main every day on my way to school. It's no wonder that a bitter hatred of the police in the village was still there for years after.
The police were much too lenient.
Only good thing was the one road in and out , they had to come over the crossings . Someone on a bike would come down the road yelling " they'r coming " . Used to sit on top of the tip on the motorbike watching to see iff the plod came down from Wadwoth to come in behind the lines . Iff they came onto the tip we would ride off a little and stop and wait till they were almost at us then ride off some more to keep them occupied lol . Hard times , spent the winter's with my dad digging the dumped steam coal out of the tip side to keep the fire on . Brother got us some 1x1 steel from Crompton Parkinsons and we made a trailer to pull behind a Mobylette to haul 3 or 4 little bags back home at a time . Neighbours mam worked at Carnel's motorbike shop and we ended up fitting a bench drill with a 6" saw blade to the kitchen table to make a saw bench to cut the Japanese redwood 2x2 bike crate frames up for fire wood so we were better off than most . We kept the fire burning even iff it meant burning old shoes .
Thank you, this is brilliant. Thank you for sharing this.
@@MinersStrike1984 1st house as you left the pit gates was funny , you could walk upto the window and knock . When it opened you could buy fags or sweets " after hour's " in the 70's when the shops opened at 9am and closed at 5pm . The " window " was open till 10pm lol . One of the secrets of the pit lol .
9th March 2024 'The pit wheels may have stopped turning, buy the coal embers are still burning. Deep in the hearts of South Yorkshire.' Will you march in solidarity with the Hatfield Miners? Miners' Strike 40th anniversary: Arthur Scargill, 86, to lead Doncaster commemoration Veteran trade unionist Arthur Scargill will lead a parade to mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike in Doncaster. David Douglass, the former secretary of Hatfield Main NUM branch, has helped to organise the event, which will see a parade along Broadway in Dunscroft arriving at the Hatfield Colliery headgear where Hatfield Colliery Band will perform. There will then be a rally at the nearby Pit Club including performances and speeches from Mr Scargill, Hatfield Branch spokesman Harry Harle, pit poet Eddie Pickard and singer Joe Solo, followed by an open folk music session. Various mining organisations, including the Women Against Pit Closures movement, will be represented at the event, which will see participants arriving at The Broadway Hotel in Dunscroft from 9.30am to 11am. Check out our dedicated RUclips Channel on the History of the Miners' Strike. Explore the different topics via the play lists. Please like, subscribe and share both this post and the RUclips Channel. youtube.com/@MinersStrike1984?si=NEDm_vVRHojYvR_l Let those coal embers burn and shine a light on the bravery, solidarity and determination of the miners to fight for their communities and the right to work and a decent wage.
Kinnock not fit to wipe scargills boots
Kinnockshould have stood up to Scargill and insisted on a ballot. A lot of good people who held the line and fought for their pits and communities, were let down by their leaders.
I remember it well in Kent, the village was full of blacklisted (1926) miners from Wales, Scotland, Durham and very isolated in the garden of England . In material terms it was rough, soup kitchens, living off Serbian bean soup and cold houses but the community pulled together, stayed loyal and we had a purpose. The destruction of those communities, the unions and the left in general hasn't made this a good place to live in the subsequent years.
Forty years on billions spent to import coal for the power stations when pit's used to supply them from ten miles down the road 100 thousand miners tax and national insurance the government didn't get and up to half a million jobs lost with the surrounding industries connected to the mining industry one of the most destructive things a government has ever done too it's people a clean burning coal power station was available but the government stopped it just to destroy the British coal industry
James you wasting everyone's time. I'm looking to record tge experiences of the people involved. You've exercised your freedom of speech. Please don't post anymore or I will delete all your threads :-)
I wasnt there and it must have been horrendous! But allowing children to be subject to that amount of abuse is disgraceful, getting children to join in aswell! Throwing bricks through peoples windows! Not caring who got hurt!! Spitting in peoples faces! They went back to provide for their kids! ...awful to hear kids shouting abuse! Poor things cant possibly get it
You are reading history backwards and applying modern standards. The working Miners put their families in that position. They committed the ultimate sin and betrayed their community. Unless you have lived in a mining community, you would never understand. Would you be nice to Nazis whilst they were bombing London during the Blitz?
Dividend well its 2024 and the wealthy have never had it so good and the poor are getting poorer by the day I know people that never put heating on and are using food banks yet ski resorts and luxury goods sales are booming ......what a country9
and were are the scabs now most were smack heads or piss artists and there leader in the nick once a scab always a scab
Yout post reads as if it was written by a smack head.
I have that photo but it's copyrighted
It wouldbe worth showing the photos of the moments before the police attack. All the pickets were sat on the ground, no provocations at all.
All the violence was perpetrated by the Police, people reacted to the attack as anyone would.
I’ll never cross a picket 🪧 line.
We felt that we had let Tony and the others down, we didn't want to go back without the sacked lads .
Notts miners was scabs but in the end it came back to haunt them for working through the strike
Was you there? Why wouldn't you have a national ballot? Notts was divided some there did strike. Easy to blame one area when in reality most of those initially on strike in other areas only did so because of intimidation. As soon as protection was offered they started to go back to work. Scargill used the miners to take on thatcher
They was scabs sold the rest of us down the road
And it back fired in the end on all the notts miners
Yep they shut all their pits too, the last one I think in 2008
Not really pits we’re gonna close anyway
hello i am not a native english speaker. it is difficult for me to understand what people say in this video and the second part. could you please consider adding captions? thanks in advance, POWER TO THE WORKINGMEN!
I'll look into it, everyone in these videos has a strong regional accent. They are the ordinary men and women of Britain
@braulio840 If you click on the button "CC" above the video it will turn on "Closed Captions" which are subtitles. They are available for this video but aren't always put on. By the way, even British people sometimes have difficulty understanding some UK accents. Enjoy 😉
Just noticed a Alan Cummings from easington num was wondering if you have any footage of Murton colliery.
Nope but if you have some, I'll happily add it
Scargill didn’t give a fuck about the miners, he knew a national ballot would vote not to strike so he used it as a one man crusade against the government. Where is he now ? He took the NUM to court to keep his union funded London flat, no support for the pension scheme, the man’s a pure twat
If you scabbed your as much to blame as Thatcher for destroying the coal industry and all the communities and lives of the people involved
There are many who would agree with you. The decision to break the law and not hold a democratic ballot also failed the Miners. I felt Neil Kinnock's enequry's assessment was spot on: 'You could not fault the Miners and their families but they were let down by the leadership of the NUM not to hold a ballot. That single decision, above all else, cost them the strike.' Would you not agree? Watch this Craig, I'd appreciate what you think ruclips.net/video/PbiseiyJyoI/видео.htmlsi=X-dZC6t_5_3hxWtE
My grandads uncles and distant cousins were all miners back in the day even thow i was not alive during the strike I still find it a interesting subject I all was wonder what it would be like if the pits were still open the miners and pit officials all said soon as the pits shut the towns and villages would be fluded with crime unemployment and drugs the heart and soul of our community's gone if only the pits were still open it would have turned boys into men and opportunities would of still been about all i can say is power to the people long live the miners.
That's why it's important to teach kids about their proud mining heritage and what it meant to belong to a community where people looked out for each other. Check out the videos on the long term consequences and the rise of selfish individualism
@@MinersStrike1984 I will check the video out
@nohope2613 everything is organised into playlists for my channel. The secret is to educate, agitate, and organise.
A lad I knew was murdered because his brother went back to work. It was in Bentley, Doncaster.
That reporter undercover deserved anything they would have done to him. Lucky for him some of the lads thought against violance
Another interesting video. I have just come across your channel. I am currently writing a crime thriller about how the miners strike still resonates through the UK in current times.
In Armthorpe they still have the 'Scab House' where one of three people who broke the strike there used to live. Everytime the house is rebuilt or refurnished, its burnt down again or smashed up, 40 years later. Look it up!
What people dont realise is that during the strike, South Yorkshire was put on police lockdown with people being subject to arbitary arrest and punishment. The police would smash up peoples cars, vans and homes and there was nothing that they could do about it. To this day, most people do not respect authority in South Yorkshire because of the terrible crimes that the people were subjected to in the strike by the Met police. If you broke ranks and and went back to work, it was worse than being a German spy or collaborator during the war. However, I fully understand why some people, facing bankrupcy and losing their family would be tempted. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. As a retirered history teacher I'm just trying to keep alive this period of forgotten history.
@@MinersStrike1984 It was a similar situation here in the South Wales Valleys. Families evicted from their homes because they couldn't pay the rent. Or had posessions taken because they couldn't a fford to pay for them. And then there was the Undercover Police units who infiltrated the miners' unions to split them even more.
What an incredible poem.
I worked in the Pig & Whistle pub across the road from the Miner’s Headquarters in Sheffield during the strike…these were hard times.
Sold out to Thatchers puppets, And Drank from the Devils cup..RIP uk mining industry
all sides got hosed,the miners were used by scargill,the police ended up being cut till they bled by the goverment after 84,and the country still went out and voted the tories in again in a landslide setting themselves up for the poll tax and all the other stuff that happend.
made in 2002
Aye, before Neil Greatrex went to prison for thieving from a Notts miners welfare charity. Says it all.
What good did it do anybody to work through the strike all the mines are closed if the miners had won the strike just think how good things would have been now jobs for all the young men instead of the dole and drug infested pit village's it's your fault if you scabbed
Dream on.
Coal mining would have ended anyway due to the Climate Change Act.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw yet we are still importing coal from abroad? and the government wants to open a new coal mine in England? and we still have coal fired power stations? Me thinks it was a political decision
@@user-sb9qn4xw7c Coal-fired power stations will be phased out, and Labour has confirmed it will bloack the coal mine in Cumbria.
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The earth's crust in ratio to the size of the earth is equivalent to the skin of a soap bubble and we will all go pop due to the greed of the privileged few people who are making life difficult for us all and destroying the earth in the process of getting rich and reducing the population and quality of life for us all.