Catalogue Number
NMLH.1990.18.7
Object Name
T-Shirt
Title
WOMEN AGAINST PIT CLOSURES
Events
Strike & Miners Strike
Date
1984-1985
Description
A V-neck t-shirt reading "WOMEN AGAINST PIT CLOSURES" with a venus symbol.
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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