This video clip has been borrowed from the BBC Documentary 'The Miners Strike.' It has been uploaded to honour the sacrifices made by the Hatfield miners for their community and as a resource for professional development and adult educational purposes. You can find content that is suitable for use in the classroom on our sister site - The History Academy, which can be found at this this link: [ Ссылка ]

If you would like to share your experiences on the Miners' Strike as an eye witness from the period 1984 - 1985, then we would invite you to do some by commenting on the videos. The passions aroused by the Miners' Strike are still very real and alive so I would ask people to comment and be respectful of the YouTube community guidelines. Without whom we would not be able to share these videos for free and keep alive for prosperity one of the most significant turning points in modern British History.

For those of you who have been born since the Miners' Strike, it will be a lot harder for you to understand words like 'solidarity', 'community', 'Scab', and 'Blackleg' as we live in a new age of political correctness. However, there was a time when 'men' were simply 'men' and fought for what they believed, even when the odds were stacked against them: 'The pit wheels may have stopped turning, but the coal embers are still burning, deep in the hearts of South Yorkshire.

Please free free to share you own experiences of the Miners Strike and comment below.

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