• Animation indicating the decline of the coal industry in the UK. [1]

Sources: Northern Mine Research Society, Government data

• Pit-head baths, Bolsover Colliery - click to read more.

[edit] • Wikipedia Contributors (2024) '1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike'

The main article draws my attention because it tops the list of search results and its source is Wikipedia. It states:—

• "The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures."

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• 'Support the Miners March' Camberwell Road, SE5, London. 1984

• Coal mining employment in the UK, 1880–2012

• Table indicating votes for strike action by area - click to view

• Table indicating variation in observing the strike - click to view

• Images from the Wikipedia article

[edit] • Wikipedia Contributors (2024) 'Coal mining in the United Kingdom'

The second article draws my attention because it supplements the main article. It states:—

• "In early 1984, the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher announced plans to close 20 coal pits which led to the year-long miners' strike which ended in March 1985."

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It also provides a link to a list of coal mines in the United Kingdom, sorted between those operating in the 21st century and those closed earlier, namely:—

• "List of coal mines in the United Kingdom"

• Images used to illustrate the Wikipedia articles

[edit] Harris, J. (2023) 'Almost 40 years on, the miners’ strike still casts a long shadow over UK politics today'

This article draws my attention because it discusses some of the long-term effects of the miners' strike and possible ways forward.

• Images related to John Harris' article

John Harris concluded:—

• "Those findings (of the report commissioned by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust) were significant in themselves, but they also told a story about what the coalfields’ fate meant for the working class as a whole: [...] these places’ brutal treatment and subsequent decline amounted to the dismantling of a whole social order’s foundations.
• Put simply, the miners’ defeat began the era we are living in and left deep wounds that have been left to fester on. It is a hugely significant aspect of a country so tangled up in its past: millions of people still reeling from the events of 40 years ago, partly because those events remain so overlooked. Here, surely, lies one key reason why Britain feels so full of ghosts and guilty secrets."
• (ib.)

[edit] Bartholemew, J. and Skopeliti, C. (2024) '‘People have lost faith’: life in former mining towns 40 years on from strike'

This article draws my attention because it discusses some of the long-term effects of the miners' strike and possible ways forward.

• Images from the Bartholemew and Skopeliti article

•Screenshots of the ONS website