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Arthur Scargill back on the picket line outside coal mining museum to support strikers

The former president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) stood with striking staff locked in a pay dispute with the National Coal Mining Museum for England

Daily Mirror

'We just wanted to carry on mining': What the strike which changed Britain meant for our miners - and what it says about the 'summer of discontent'

"We weren't trying to take over the country, we just wanted to carry on mining, to protect our jobs and communities"

Manchester Evening News

Striking miners feared police were infiltrating them in real-life Sherwood plot

Miners have long suspected that they were targeted and they hope the long awaited probe will reveal the truth of what the police did during the bitter 1984-85 strike

Daily Mirror

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UK strikes: six milestones in the history of industrial action in Britain

Holidaymakers and commuters are expecting significant disruption this summer following a recent surge in strike action in the UK and Europe. UK train drivers are the latest group to consider striking in what could be the first national rail strike in more than 25 years

The Conversation

‘It was refreshing to see what Sherwood did’: how the BBC’s acclaimed miners’ strike drama went down in the real pit villages

In the Nottingham streets where the serial is set, the struggle now is to control the narrative of a fiercely contested history

The Guardian - UK

Sherwood has exposed undercover policing. Now let’s hear the stories of victims like me

The TV series casts a welcome spotlight on the spy cops scandal, but the real-life abuse is still unexplored, says Alison, a founder member of Police Spies Out of Lives

The Guardian - UK

I wrote Sherwood as a warning. When communities are divided, the pain endures

Tensions from miners’ strike are echoed in Brexit, levelling up and today’s rail disputes. We can’t let bonds be torn apart, says playwright and screenwriter James Graham

The Guardian - UK

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Families in BBC Sherwood's real-life village 'still divided' by miners' strike

The community of Annesley Woodhouse on the fringes of Sherwood Forest was left shocked when their village the setting for one of the most brutal killings in Nottinghamshire's history

Daily Mirror

Philip Larkin’s profound and beautiful poetry sent me back to the classroom

The exam board that dropped the poet and others from the curriculum has overlooked their effects on young minds

The Guardian - UK

‘Is that who I think it is?’ Arthur Scargill joins rail picket line in Sheffield

Former NUM leader says he feels duty-bound to offer his support to striking workers, and has choice words for Starmer and Johnson

The Guardian - UK

Three month strike set to end at Sibanye as miners back deal

South African precious metals miner Sibanye Stillwater said on Friday that trade unions leading a strike at its gold operations had a mandate from their members to accept a three-year wage deal.

Reuters

Defiant South African unions stage protest against Sibanye

Hundreds of striking Sibanye-Stillwater workers blocked a major highway outside Johannesburg on Friday to press their demands for higher wages, and union leaders said they would not back down despite the gold miner's no work, no pay policy.

Reuters

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