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Policing of the miners' strike 1984-1985 - impact on communities: independent review

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Jim Phillips at University of Glasgow
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Andrew Perchard at University of Strathclyde
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Jim Phillips at University of Glasgow
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Mike Foden at Sheffield Hallam University
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Tony Gore at Sheffield Hallam University
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Steve Fothergill at Sheffield Hallam University
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Article from The Guardian
MEDIA CONTENT 292 Miners Arrested [Newspaper] The Scotsman, May 1984 A war no one deserved to win [Website], The Guardian, 2009 Arthur Scargill – we could surrender – or stand and fight [Website], The Guardian, 2009
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The Closure of Michael Colliery in 1967 and the Politics of Deindustrialization in Scotland
Twentieth Century British History (Oxford University Press (OUP))
J. Phillips 2015
It also appears to have been better addressed in other Western European countries which were going through a similar process 4 .
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4 See, for example, Phillips, J. (2015) The closure of Michael Colliery in 1967 and the politics of deindustrialization in Scotland. Twentieth Century British History, http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/104495/7/104495.pdf
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Impact of policing on communities during the Miners' Strike
The Scottish Government
That the shadow had not disappeared from consciousness, even 33 years on, led to an announcement in the Scottish Parliament on 7 June 2018.
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7 https://www.gov.scot/publications/impact-of-policing-on-communities-during-the-miners-strike/
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Miners' strike review: interim report
The Scottish Government
INTERIM REPORT We produced an interim report which was published on 25 February 2019 9 .
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9 https://www.gov.scot/publications/miners-strike-review-interim-report/
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Article from The Guardian
March 1985 Miners Delegates at an NUM conference decide 98 to 91 to end the strike 41 .
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41 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1985/mar/04/immigrationpolicy.past
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Article from The Guardian
Link in text to https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/01/miners-strike-taxi-driver-killed-1984
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Article from The Guardian
Link in text to https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/sep/04/features5
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Article from The Scotsman
Partly as a result of the “totally different levels of sentence administered in virtually identical situations” as well as the claims of miscarriage of justice, there has been discussion by some of the need for a pardon of those convicted during, or related to, the Strike, most recently at the start of 2019 162 .
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162 https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/call-to-pardon-miners-strike-convictions-1-4851681
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