Forty years ago, in March 1984, the National Coal Board, backed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, announced the closure of 20 coal mines in Britain. The National Union of Miners responded with a nationwide strike that would last almost a year.

On this audio edition of Moments in History, we will be discussing the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike with three eminent historians, exploring the causes, the socio-political ramifications, and the wider reverberations left in the wake of the miners’ strike.

We welcome Jörg Arnold, author of "The British Miner in the Age of De-industrialisation: A Political and Cultural History," Natalie Thomlinson, co-author of "Women and the Miner’s Strike, 1984-1985" with Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, and Stephen Brooke, author of "London 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City," to discuss the strike and contextualize Britain in the 1980s.

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The British Miner in the Age of De-industrialisation: A Political and Cultural History by Jörg Arnold: https://oxford.ly/3TC7Sd2

Women and the Miner’s Strike, 1984-1985 by Natalie Thomlinson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: https://oxford.ly/3VjBBJg

London 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City by Stephen Brooke: https://oxford.ly/3Ti1AxR

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This episode was produced by Steven Filippi and Jack Dugan. You may also listen on SoundCloud at Oxford Academic (OUP): https://oxford.ly/3v8s0Kz

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