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 The Miners' Strike - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3534415.stm The story of the 1984/5 miners' strike, told using audio and images from BBC News archives. |
 The Miners' Strike 1984 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2004/miners_strike/default.stm BBC News in-depth section, reviewing the impact of the miners's strike 20 years later. |
 Scargillism and the Miners - http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/454/scargillism.html Article critically assessing the role and contribution of Arthur Scargill to the big coal strike of 1984-85. [Dave Douglass, secretary of Hatfield Main National Union of Mineworkers, in The Weekly Worker, Oct 2002] |
 Labour Struggles - http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Llafur/index-e.htm Accounts of the Penrhyn Quarry Strikes, the General Strike, and the Miners' Strikes of 1972, 1974, and 1984 in Wales. [The National Library of Wales] |
 Justice for Mineworkers - http://www.users.ic24.net/~terrynorm/Justice/ Campaigns to keep the issue alive of the sacked and victimised miners from the 1984/85 miners strike; includes a history of the strike, and account of the women's support movement, chronology, listing of pit closures, and newsletters. |
 Miners Strike 1984 - http://www.one2one-development.com/fitzwilliamarchive/directory.aspx?id=39 An archive of audio and video items on the effects of the strike on the West Yorkshire community of Fitzwilliam. [The Fitzwilliam Archive Project] |
 UK Miners' Strike (1984–1985) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners'_strike_(1984-1985) Wikipedia article on the strike, with hyperlinks to other resources. |
 The Great Strike - http://www.num.org.uk/?p=history&c=num&h=13 An account of the strike, from the National Union of Mineworkers' history section. |
 Strike 84 - http://www.strike84.co.uk/ A collection of photos taken during the strike in 1984-5, by Martin Shakeshaft |
 TUC History Online - http://www.unionhistory.info/timeline/1960_2000_Narr_Display_2.php?Where=NarTitle+contains+'The+1984-85+Miners+Strike'+ Brief overview of the strike in the context of British Trade Union history. Includes links to photos. |
 Archives Hub: Miners' Strike 1984-1985 - http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/mar04.shtml Gateway for access to archive and manuscript collections in the UK's Higher Education sector related to the strike. |
 The Battle of Orgreave - http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/past/01/01_deller.htm A description of Jeremy Deller's filmed re-enactment of the event for Channel 4. |