Simon Greaves, an FT journalist, reflects on the miners' strike 40 years later, discussing the key players and the impact it had on Britain. The strike, which lasted 358 days, resulted in significant casualties and financial costs.
Simon Greaves, an FT journalist who was coal industry reporter for the Nottingham Evening Post throughout the strike, writes for Nottinghamshire Live and the Nottingham Post on the miners' strike 40 years on, drawing on insights gained from his unique position on the frontline of news reporting at the time. This is the story of a 358-day struggle of ideologies that changed Britain forever.
The key players were Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill and the miners he led on strike, or instead broke away in Britain’s last large-scale industrial battle. Forty years on since the start of what was the longest and most bitter industrial dispute in British history the industry has – as the strike leaders and opposition politicians then feared – disappeared without trace. The 1984-85 miners’ strike – which saw more than half the country’s 187,000 miners take action - cost one murder, 13 further deaths, thousands of injuries, nearly 10,000 arrests and over £7bn in taxpayers’ money to polic
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