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        Miners’ strike                                                         UK, 1984-1985










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             strike:twopicketersanda
              taxi driver takinganon-
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        Timeline


            1 JANUARY 1947               9 JANUARY 1972                 4 MAY 1979                    6 MARCH 1984

                      Britain’s coal industry       Pay cuts and large-           Margaret Thatcher            The National Coal
                       is nationalised               scale closures of            becomes prime                 Board announces
                        by Clement                   collieries as a result        minister, with a              that they intend
                        Attlee’s Labour              of the energy                 primary objective             to close down 20
                        government, which            market’s move                 to lower infl ation.          mines. Six days
                       sees improvements             towards oil and               Two million jobs in           later, the NUM
                       in miners’ working           nuclear power lead to         the manufacturing             leadership declares a
                     conditions and pay.           a national strike.            sector are lost.              national strike.
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