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Backbone of the Nation

Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

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A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families

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Robert Gildea is professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Fighters in the Shadows, Empires of the Mind, and the Wolfson Prize–winning Marianne in Chains.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    List of Illustrations

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    Acknowledgements

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    Cast of Characters

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    Maps

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    INTRODUCTION

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    1 STOP–START

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    2 PICKETING OUT

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    3 THE BATTLE FOR THE BALLOT

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    4 ORGREAVE

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    5 ‘CLOSE A PIT, KILL A COMMUNITY’

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    6 ‘WE ARE WOMEN, WE ARE STRONG’

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    7 CONNECTIONS

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    8 LESBIANS AND GAYS SUPPORT THE MINERS

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    9 A STATE OF SIEGE

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    10 CHRISTMAS

    228
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    11 THE RETURN TO WORK

    256
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    12 THE FIGHT GOES ON

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    13 RUIN

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    14 REDEMPTION

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    15 SHARED STORIES

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    16 CHILDREN OF THE STRIKE

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    CONCLUSION

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    LOCATIONS OF INTERVIEWEES

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    NOTES

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    SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    INDEX

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9780300274561
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