by David Hencke
6. National Archives, Coal 31/394.
7. Goodman (1985), p. 139.
8. Interview with Tim Bell.
9. Document released by the Cabinet Office under the FOI Act.
10. Document released by the Cabinet Office under the FOI Act.
11. Goodman (1985), pp. 146–8.
12. Routledge (1993).
13. Kinnock Papers.
14. National Archives, Coal 31/445.
15. Milne (1994).
16. Document released by the Cabinet Office under the FOI Act.
17. Document released by the Cabinet Office under the FOI Act.
18. Document released under the FOI Act.
19. Milne (1994).
20. Bill Keys’ diary.
21. Routledge (1993), p. 178.
22. Interview with Ken Cameron.
23. Milne (1994).
24. Interview with Roger Windsor.
25. Milne (1994).
26. Ibid., p. 50.
CHAPTER 7: THE COLLAPSE OF GENERAL WINTER
1. Bill Keys’ diary.
2. Ibid.
3. Scottish Miner, November 1984.
4. MacGregor (1986).
5. Bill Keys’ diary.
6. Kinnock Papers.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Callinicos and Simons (1985), p. 180.
10. Stead (1987), p. 62.
11. Winterton and Winterton (1989), p. 124.
12. Ibid.
13. Kinnock Papers.
14. Ibid.
15. Stead (1987), p. 62.
16. Witham (1986), p. 153.
17. Miller (1986), p. 53.
18. Milne (1994).
19. Interview with Alain Simon.
20. Milne (1994).
21. Anne Suddick, BBC News UK, 4 March 2004.
22. Stead (1987).
CHAPTER 8: ELEVENTH-HOUR TALKS
1. Bill Keys’ diary.
2. Routledge (1993).
3. National Archives.
4. Ibid.
5. Bill Keys’ diary.
6. Beckett (1995).
7. Milne (1994).
8. National Archives, released under the FOI Act.
9. Bill Keys’ diary.
10. Routledge (1993).
11. MacGregor (1986), p. 348.
12. Interview with Peter Walker.
13. MacGregor (1986), p. 349.
14. National Archives, Coal 31/438.
15. Bill Keys’ diary.
16. Document released under the FOI Act.
17. Nicholas Jones, Free Press, May 2004.
18. Document released by the Cabinet Office under the FOI Act.
19. Document released under the FOI Act.
20. Bill Keys’ diary.
21. Goodman (1985), p. 182.
22. Bill Keys’ diary.
23. National Archives, Coal 31/438.
CHAPTER 9: THE BITTER END
1. Bill Keys’ diary.
2. Goodman (1985).
3. Ibid.
4. Routledge (1993).
5. Ibid.
6. Bill Keys’ diary.
7. Interview with John Monks.
8. Strike: When Britain Went to War, Channel 4, 2004.
9. Routledge (1993).
10. Williams (1987).
11. Wilsher, MacIntyre and Jones (1985).
12. Salt and Layzell (1985).
13. Sunday Times, 4 August 1985.
14. Document released under the FOI Act.
15. Paper given to the authors by David Feickert.
CHAPTER 10: THE POST-STRIKE WORLD: LOST MONEY, LOST INFLUENCE, LOST REPUTATIONS
1. Interview with Ken Cameron.
2. Lightman (1990).
3. Bill Keys’ diary.
4. Routledge (1993).
5. National Archives, Coal 31/443.
6. National Archives, Coal 31/443; memo Marion Stanley, NCB legal department.
7. National Archives, Coal 31/444.
8. Ibid.
9. Letter to Bert Wheeler, director, Nottinghamshire area NCB, National Archives, Coal 31/444.
10. National Archives, Coal 31/444.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., Coal 31/465.
13. Lightman (1990).
14. Interview with Neil Kinnock.
15. Francis Beckett and David Hencke, The Survivor: Tony Blair in Peace and War, London, Aurum, 2005.
16. Ibid.
CHAPTER 11: NOT AN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE, BUT A WAR
1. Guardian, 11 February 2004.
2. Independent, 15 April 1998.
3. ‘Base Details’, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918).
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INDEX
Abbreviations used in index
NCB – National Coal Board
NUM – National Union of Mineworkers
TUC – Trades Union Congress
Abbasi, Altaf ref1
Aberavon miners’ rally ref1, ref2
Ackton hall colliery ref1
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
African National Congress ref1
Agecroft colliery ref1
agents provocateurs ref1, ref2, ref3
Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) ref1
amnesty, refusal of ref1, ref2
Anglo-Irish agreement ref1
anti-strike laws ref1
Apter, Jeff ref1, ref2
Arkell, Peter ref1, ref2
Armstrong, Sir Robert ref1, ref2, ref3
army ref1, ref2, ref3
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) ref1
Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Attlee, Clement ref1, ref2, ref3
Baldwin, Stanley ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
ballots
in Nottinghamshire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
percentage required for national strike ref1
political fund ballot ref1
strikes without ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
to end strike ref1, ref2, ref3
Barnsley ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Barron, Kevin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Barrow colliery ref1
Basnett, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Bell, Tim ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Bell, Trevor ref1, ref2
Benn, Tony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Berry, Sir Anthony ref1
Bevan, Aneurin ref1, ref2, ref3
Beveridge, Sir William ref1
Beveridge Report ref1
Bevin, Ernest ref1, ref2, ref3
Bevin boys ref1
Bhutto, Benazir ref1
Bickerstaffe, Rodney ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Biffen, John ref1, ref2
Birch, Nige ref1, ref2
Blair, Tony ref1, ref2
Brighton Grand Hotel bombing ref1
Briscoe, Owen ref1, ref2
British Association of Colliery Management (BACM) ref1, ref2
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ref1, ref2, ref3
British Coal ref1, ref2, ref3
see also National Coal Board
British Gazette ref1, ref2, ref3
British Leyland ref1
British Steel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
British Worker ref1
Brittan, Leon ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Brixton and Toxteth race riots ref1
Brown, Gordon ref1, ref2
Brown, Paul ref1
Buckton, Ray ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Budd, Brigadier ref1, ref2
Budd, Colin ref1, ref2
Bullcliffe Wood colliery ref1
Butler, Adam ref1
Butler, R.A. ref1
Butler, Robin ref1, ref2, ref3
Cadley Hill colliery ref1
Cahill, Kevin ref1
Callaghan, James ref1, ref2
Cameron, Ken ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) ref1
Campbell, Johnny ref1
Capstick, Ken ref1, ref2, ref3
on ballots ref1
on NACODS settlement ref1
on picket-line violence ref1
on Scargill’s abstention from casting vote ref1
votes for strike action ref1
Carlisle, Mark ref1
Carrington, Lord ref1
Carter, Mick ref1, ref2
Carter, Pete ref1
Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Centre for Policy Studies ref1
Chadburn, Ray ref1
Channel Tunnel ref1
Chernenko, Konstantin ref1
Chernobyl nuclear accident ref1
Christmas ref1
Christopherson, Romola ref1
Churchill, Winston ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Citrine, Walter ref1, ref2
civil war analogy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Clapham, Mick ref1
Clement, Tony ref1
Clements, Dick ref1
coal industry
Britain’s reliance on ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
clean coal combustion programme ref1
coal imports ref1, ref2, ref3
cost of miners’ strike and closure of industry ref1, ref2
decline of ref1
nationalization of ref1
Plan for Coal ref1, ref2, ref3
‘super future’ for coal ref1
workforce, size of ref1, ref2, ref3
see also coal stocks
Coal Industry Nationalization Act 1946 ref1, ref2
coal stocks ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
concerns over ref1, ref2, ref3
movement of ref1, ref2
pre-strike preparations ref1
Colliery Trades and Allied Workers Association (CTAWA) ref1
Collins, Jack ref1, ref2, ref3
Communication Workers Union (CWU) ref1
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, r
ef6, ref7
Eurocommunists ref1, ref2
founding of ref1
influence ref1
internal warfare ref1, ref2, ref3
and McGahey ref1
and miners’strike ref1, ref2
and Scargill ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Confederation of British Industry (CBI) ref1
Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Conservative governments
1924–1929 ref1
1951–1955 ref1
1957–1963 ref1
1970–1974 ref1
1979–1997 ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
see also Thatcher, Margaret
Conservative Party
annual conference, Brighton 1984 ref1
election manifesto 1979 ref1
‘wets’ ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Cook, Arthur ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Cooper, Cyril ref1
Cortonwood ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
courts, impact of strike on ref1
Cousins, Frank ref1
Cowan, Jim ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Cresswell colliery ref1
Cruddas, John ref1
Cubbon, Sir Brian ref1, ref2
Daily Express ref1, ref2, ref3
Daily Mail ref1
Daily Mirror ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Daly, Lawrence ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Davies, Hunter ref1
Davies, Nick ref1
Daw Mill colliery ref1
Dehn, Conrad ref1, ref2
Derbyshire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Dock Labour Scheme ref1, ref2
dockers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Durham ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Easington ref1
Eaton, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3
Education Act 1944 ref1
Edwards, Ebby ref1
electricity price increases ref1, ref2
Elsecar colliery ref1
Eurocommunists ref1, ref2
European Social Chapter ref1
Euroroute ref1
Evans, Jenny ref1
Evans, Moss ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ezra, Derek ref1, ref2
Fabian Society ref1
Falconer, Charlie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Falkland Islands conflict ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4