Summary
THE extended fiasco of the miners' strike of 1984-85 was the nearest Britain came to civil war in the twentieth century. It was a much worse dispute than the General Strike of 1926, which lasted only nine days (though the miners stayed out for another five months. )When the '84-85 strike ended, though without a negotiated settlement, on March 5, 1985, many had lost. The nation understood the theoretical necessity of victory over the miners yet it was a victory that was disliked;
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Strife That Is Best Summed Up by Silence
A few weeks ago I praised Mrs Thatcher's prescient contributions in 1985; her role in helping to end the Cold War and her brave pushing through of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. It is harder to praise her conduct of the miners' dispu...
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