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The History and Legacy of the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike - Symposium at the Mining Museum

About the event

Join us for a captivating symposium on the history and legacy of the 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike, featuring a film screening, discussions and powerful presentations.

Event supported by the Society for the Study of Labour History.

10am – Welcome and refreshments

10.30am-12pm – The Strike in Historical Perspective

Speakers include:

Professor Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), ‘Historians and the 1984/5 miners’ strike’.
Professor Andrew Perchard, “Run with the fox and hunt with the hounds”? Re-examining NCB managers during 1984-5 strike.
Professor David Howell, ‘Remembering George Spencer: Memory, Myth and the Nottinghamshire Coalfield’.

12pm-1pm – Lunch and ‘On Behalf of the People Exhibition’ – (Please bring your own lunch)

1pm-1.30pm – Special screening of In the Veins

A special screening of ‘In the Veins’, a short film that resonates through time, using over a century of archive footage to shine a light onto the face of the mining heritage of Yorkshire and the North East of England.

1.30pm-3pm – The Social and Political legacy of the Strike

Speakers include:

Dr Natalie Thomlinson (University of Reading), ‘Women and the strike: Narratives, memories, legacies’.
Dr Kat Simpson (University of Huddersfield): ‘Mined Out? Youth Experiences of Growing Up in the Former Coalfields of Barnsley’.
Dr Lisa McKenzie, ‘The Belligerent- The State of the Red Wall working class’.

3pm-3.10pm – Refreshments

3.10pm-3.30pm – Closing Comments and Discussion

Please click on the link under Further Information for more details.

Contacts

National Coal Mining Museum

Caphouse Colliery New Road, Overton, Wakefield, WF4 4RH

01924 848806

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Learning and interest Events related to education and careers, as well as learning for fun. Also, talks, guided walks, and events of historical or other interest.