The strike saw different political factions uniting, which eventually led to a more collaborative form of politics in Wales.
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Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
The truth is out on how the media’s reporting of the Hillsborough disaster impacted the public perception of the tragedy, but could the same be said for the British miners’ strike?
On 5 March 1984 workers downed tools at Cortonwood Colliery in South Yorkshire, in protest at the Conservative government’s plans to close pits across the country. A week later, National Union of Mineworkers…
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Modern and Welsh History, Bangor University