Few outside of the UK’s former mining towns and villages remember Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC), a radical women’s movement that ensured miners and their families were fed and clothed during the strike of 1984 - 1985. Fewer still are able to recall the occupations that took place at the most threatened collieries as they were slowly closed down, less than a decade later. Whilst Barnsley’s Ann Scargill and Betty Cook may be the most recognisable of the WAPC activists, the women of Doncaster were equally instrumental in what is remembered as ‘the fight for jobs’: establishing soup kitchens, joining their husbands on the picket lines, and staging occupations. This film unearths the incredible stories of three women - Aggie, Brenda and Margaret - each of whom had a different role to play in this chapter of Doncaster’s mining heritage.

Part of Heritage Doncaster's Changing the Record project.

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