Richard Hyman takes part in the post-mortem on the miners’ strike
Richard Hyman, 6 June 1985
Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike
edited by Huw Beynon.
Verso, 252 pp., £3.95, March 1985,0 86091 820 3 Show More
edited by Huw Beynon.
Verso, 252 pp., £3.95, March 1985,
Policing the Miners’ Strike
edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar.
Lawrence and Wishart, 243 pp., £4.95, March 1985,0 85315 633 6 Show More
edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar.
Lawrence and Wishart, 243 pp., £4.95, March 1985,
The Strike: An Insider’s Story
by Roy Ottey.
Sidgwick, 157 pp., £7.95, March 1985,9780283992285 Show More
by Roy Ottey.
Sidgwick, 157 pp., £7.95, March 1985,
Scargill and the Miners
by Michael Crick.
Penguin, 172 pp., £2.95, March 1985,0 14 052355 3 Show More
by Michael Crick.
Penguin, 172 pp., £2.95, March 1985,
The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5 and its Lessons
by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons.
Socialist Worker, 256 pp., £3.95, April 1985,0 905998 50 2 Show More
by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons.
Socialist Worker, 256 pp., £3.95, April 1985,
“... announced on 1 March 1984, marked the culmination of a lengthy preparation for confrontation. In Beynon’s volume, the 1984-5 strike is contrasted with the circumstances of February 1981, when a spontaneous upsurge of militancy forced the Cabinet to provide additional funds to avoid a programme of pit closures announced by the NCB. But in the following ... ”
