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• Archives Hub: Miners' Strike 1984-1985
  - Gateway for access to archive and manuscript collections in the UK's Higher Education sector related to the strike.
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• The Battle of Orgreave
  - A description of Jeremy Deller's filmed re-enactment of the event for Channel 4.
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• Scargillism and the Miners
  - Article critically assessing the role and contribution of Arthur Scargill to the big coal strike of 1984-85. [Dave Douglass, secretary of Hatfield Main National Union of Mineworkers, in The Weekly Worker, Oct 2002]
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• The Miners' Strike 1984
  - BBC News in-depth section, reviewing the impact of the miners's strike 20 years later.
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• UK Miners' Strike (1984–1985)
  - Wikipedia article on the strike, with hyperlinks to other resources.
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• The Miners' Strike
  - The story of the 1984/5 miners' strike, told using audio and images from BBC News archives.
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• Miners Strike 1984
  - An archive of audio and video items on the effects of the strike on the West Yorkshire community of Fitzwilliam. [The Fitzwilliam Archive Project]
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• Strike 84
  - A collection of photos taken during the strike in 1984-5, by Martin Shakeshaft
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• TUC History Online
  - Brief overview of the strike in the context of British Trade Union history. Includes links to photos.
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• Labour Struggles
  - Accounts of the Penrhyn Quarry Strikes, the General Strike, and the Miners' Strikes of 1972, 1974, and 1984 in Wales. [The National Library of Wales]
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• Justice for Mineworkers
  - Campaigns to keep the issue alive of the sacked and victimised miners from the 1984/85 miners strike; includes a history of the strike, and account of the women's support movement, chronology, listing of pit closures, and newsletters.
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• The Great Strike
  - An account of the strike, from the National Union of Mineworkers' history section.
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