Books and DVD’s about the Miners Strike.
List of books and dvds to read or watch which will give a greater understanding of the issues of the miners’s strike.
| Books | DVDs |
| A Coalfield in Chaos by Ken Ambler self published | The Price of Coal by Ken Loach |
| Policing The Miners’ Strike edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar published by Lawrence and Wishart | The Last Strike St Helens, Lancs 198/5 by D H Masson and A M Poupon |
| Deep Digs Cartoons of the Miners’ strike published by Pluto Press | Dole not Coal 1984/5 Miner’s Strike, The Striker’s Story by Compress Media |
| The Cutting Edge, women and the Pit Strike edited by Vicky Seddon, published by Lawrence and Wishart | We are not Defeated North Staffs Miners’ Wives Action Group |
| Digging Deeper edited by Huw Beynon – published by Verso | The Miners’ Campaign Tapes British film Institute |
| Shafted: The Media, the Miners’ strike and the Aftermath edited by Granville Williams published by Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom | Battle of Orgreave by Yvette Vanson |
| The Enemy Within, The Secret War Against the Miners by Seamas Milne published by Pan Books | Banner TheatreBurning Issues The Miners 1984-2004. They also did one on The Battle of
Saltley Gate from the 1972 strike. email info@bannertheatre.co.uk or go to www.bannertheatre.co.uk |
| The Miners’ Strike 1984/5 in Pictures a News Line Publication | |
| Unfinished Busines The miners’ strike for jobs 1984-5 by Peter Arkelland Ray Rising Lupus Books (2009) | |
| No Redemption The 1984-85 miners’ strike in the Durhan coalfield KeithPattison David Peace Flambard Press (2010) | |
| GB84 by David Peace (a well-researched novel about the strike)published I think by Faber. | |
| Geoffrey Goodman’s TheMiners’ Strike Pluto Press 1985 |
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