The Miners Strike and my student union year
In the academic year 1984-85, I was Deputy President of Liverpool University student union during the miners strike of that year
In the academic year 1984-85, I was Deputy President of Liverpool University student union during the miners strike of that year
The 1980s saw an avalanche of anti Tory art encompassing songs, images, movies and plays in a creative expression of Thatcher hatred
During the 1984-85 miners strike, there was an idea that the national grid could be crashed if we all simultaneously used electrical appliances
Miners Strike posters and papers from my 80s archives
My student union election poster from 1982 – Liverpool Guild of Undergraduates
In 1981, Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caved into the miners but was simply biding her time for a future showdown
Miners strike posters and leaflets from 1984 and 1985 during the NUM dispute with the NCB and the Thatcher government
When Thatcher gave into the miners…in 1981. The NUM defeated Thatcher that year.
Bands often avoided Northern Ireland during The Troubles so the province generated its own punk scene as Tony McMahon discovers