Do They Know It's Christmas Yet?: They took a trip back to 1984 and broke it.

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On this Day, 3 March – 1985: Miners call off year-long strike". BBC News. 3 March 1985 . Retrieved 6 March 2009. Slavin, Barbara; Freudenheim, Milt; Rhoden, William C. (24 January 1982). "The World; British Miners Settle for Less". The New York Times. p.3 . Retrieved 6 March 2009. Maria Margaronis (22 February 2017). "The Most Important Post-Brexit Election Is Taking Place in This Small City". The Nation.

The coal industry was privatised in December 1994 creating "R.J.B. Mining", subsequently known as UK Coal. Between the end of the strike and privatisation, pit closures continued with many closures in the early-1990s. There were 15 British Coal deep mines left in production at the time of privatisation, [110] but by March 2005, there were only eight deep mines left. [111] Since then, the last pit in Northumberland, Ellington Colliery has closed whilst pits at Rossington and Harworth have been mothballed. In 1983, Britain had 174 working collieries; by 2009 there were six. [112] The last deep colliery in the UK, Kellingley Colliery, known locally as "The Big K" closed for the last time on 18 December 2015, bringing an end to centuries of deep coal mining. Phil Whitehead, 61, had been an electrician at Shireoaks. He went out canvassing for Labour at the last election and says he heard the same two things on the doorstep: “‘I’m voting for Boris ’cos he’ll get Brexit done’ and ‘I don’t trust that Corbyn’. They didn’t trust Labour to follow Brexit through and enough believed the Corbyn caricatures in the tabloids.” A solitary figure was coming towards him from the other end of the long, brightly-lit corridor. It was the girl with dark hair. Four days had gone past since the evening when he had run into her outside the junk-shop. As she came nearer he saw that her right arm was in a sling, not noticeable at a distance because it was of the same colour as her overalls. Probably she had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were ‘roughed in’. It was a common accident in the Fiction Department. Benyon, Huw (1985). "Introduction". In Benyon, Huw (ed.). Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners' Strike. London: Verso. pp. 1–25. ISBN 0-86091-820-3.

In Airedale, Castleford where most miners were on strike, a working miner, Michael Fletcher, was savagely beaten in November 1984. [19] : 214 A masked gang waving baseball bats invaded his house and beat him for five minutes, whilst his pregnant wife and children hid upstairs. [19] : 214 Fletcher suffered a broken shoulder blade, dislocated elbow and two broken ribs. [89] Two miners from Wakefield were convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and four others were acquitted of riot and assault. [48] :164 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx Adeney, Martin; Lloyd, John (1988). The Miners' Strike 1984–5: Loss Without Limit. London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7102-1371-9. The defeats just kept on coming. A 2-0 reverse at West Brom left them five points adrift at the bottom of the table in mid-November; Everton came to town and beat them 4-0, with former Stoke player Adrian Heath netting a brace; QPR “created enough chances to have reached double figures” to use the words of Clive White in the Times; and the ten-match losing run was concluded in front of just 7,925 fans as Ipswich won 2-0 at the Victoria Ground. An Overview of the Coal Industry in the UK". Department of Trade and Industry. 3 May 2005. Archived from the original on 12 July 2007 . Retrieved 6 March 2009.

Aitken, Jonathan (2013). Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality. Bloomsbury USA. pp. 447–448. ISBN 9781620403426. In 2009, Scargill wrote that the settlement agreed with NACODS and the NCB would have ended the strike and said, "The monumental betrayal by NACODS has never been explained in a way that makes sense." [16] Court judgments on legality of strike [ edit ]Writing in the Industrial Relations Journal immediately after the strike in 1985, Professor Brian Towers of the University of Nottingham commented on the way the media had portrayed strikers, stating that there had been "the obsessive reporting of the 'violence' of generally relatively unarmed men and some women who, in the end, offered no serious challenge to the truncheons, shields and horses of a well-organised, optimally deployed police force." [76] On 6 March 1984, the NCB announced that the agreement reached after the 1974 strike was obsolete, and that to reduce government subsidies, 20 collieries would close with a loss of 20,000 jobs. Many communities in Northern England, Scotland and Wales would lose their primary source of employment. [45]

A curious emotion stirred in Winston's heart. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had instinctively started forward to help her. In the moment when he had seen her fall on the bandaged arm, it had been as though he felt the pain in his own body. The 1996 film Brassed Off was set 10 years after the strike in the era when numerous pits closed before the privatisation of British Coal. The film refers to the strike and some of the dialogue contrasts the resistance in 1984 with the resignation with which most miners responded to the pit closures of the early 1990s. It was set in the fictional town of Grimley, a thin disguise for the hard-hit ex-mining village of Grimethorpe, where some of it was filmed. a b Howell, David; etal. (1987). "Goodbye to All That?: A review of literature on the 1984/5 miners' strike". Work, Employment & Society. 1 (3): 388–404. doi: 10.1177/0950017087001003007. JSTOR 23745863. S2CID 154609889. I must tell you... that what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law, and it must not succeed. [cheering] It must not succeed. There are those who are using violence and intimidation to impose their will on others who do not want it.... The rule of law must prevail over the rule of the mob. [64] The miners' strike of 1984–1985 was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures. It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who wanted to reduce the power of the trade unions.Rimington, Stella (2001). Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5. Hutchinson. p. 374. ISBN 0-09-179360-2.

Lyons, James (3 January 2014). "Miners' strike: Margaret Thatcher was prepared to declare state of emergency and use 4,500 troops to break unions". mirror. Chris Cutler, Tim Hodgkinson and Lindsay Cooper from Henry Cow, along with Robert Wyatt and poet Adrian Mitchell recorded The Last Nightingale in October 1984 to raise money for the strikers and their families. [147] MacGregor later admitted that if NACODS had gone ahead with a strike, a compromise would probably have been forced on the NCB. Files later made public showed that the government had an informant inside the Trades Union Congress (TUC), passing information about negotiations. [53]

Kelliher, Diarmaid. "Solidarity and Sexuality: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners 1984–5." History Workshop Journal (2014). 77#1 pp.240–262. doi: 10.1093/hwj/dbt012 On This Day, 29 May – 1984: Miners and police clash at Orgreave". BBC News. 29 May 1984 . Retrieved 6 March 2009. a b c d e f g h i Douglass, David John (1994). Pit Sense versus the State: A history of militant miners in the Doncaster area. London, UK: Phoenix Press. pp.11–12, 45, 58–59, 69, 78, 96. ISBN 0-948984-26-0. a b c d e f "We could surrender – or stand and fight". The Guardian. London. 7 March 2009 . Retrieved 9 February 2017. If Asprey had hoped that this would be the start of a great escape, then the next two games put a swift end to this notion. A 2-0 defeat at home to QPR was followed by a 4-0 thrashing at Coventry in which 17-year-old stand-in goalkeeper Stuart Roberts endured a torrid time.