Catalogue Number
NMLH.2025.34.4
Object Name
Advert
Title
HERE WE GO
Place
Nottinghamshire, Nottingham
Events
Miners' Strike 1984-1985
Date
1985
Description
Large flyer/advert for book: 'HERE WE GO! Women's memories of the 1984/85 MINERS STRIKE'. Most of the front of the advert shows a black and white photograph of women protesting pit closures. Those in the foreground are wearing 'Women Against Pit Closures' and 'Notts Women STRIKE back' t-shirts. Three of the banners in the photograph have been overlaid with red. The banner in the foreground has not been coloured red, and has a 'Notts Women Strike Back' motif. At the top and bottom are red diagonal stripes with the title of the book inside.
On the reverse is an explanation of what is covered in the book, and an order form.
The 1984-85 Miners' Strike was called after the government announced plans to close 20 pits, at a cost of twenty thousand miners jobs, which the miners accurately saw as the beginning of the closure of all the pits in the UK. The strike lasted for over a year before ending unsuccessfully in March 1985. While letters from the NCB to strikers claimed that it was "absolutely untrue" that the government planned to ultimately close 85 pits, the NUM's speculation was correct. A second round of closures was announced in 1992 closing almost all the mines in the UK, leaving former pit towns with extremely high rates of unemployment and deprivation that last to this day.
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