25th Anniversary of The Miners strike – Event at the IPPR Tomorow Lunchtime
If you are around tomorrow lunchtime, a session being held at the IPPR looks very interesting. Open to all but you need to email events@ippr.org to reserve a place:
IPPR Thinking on Thursday – The Miners’ Strike: 25 years on
1:00 – 2:00pm
At ippr, 30- 32 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA25 years on, the Miners’ Strike arouses debate like few other contemporary political events. The approaching anniversary has re-opened old divisions, with arguments still raging around the miners’ leadership, the motives of the Conservative government and the position adopted by Neil Kinnock’s Labour Party.
Whatever your standpoint on these issues, it is incontestable that the strike changed the face of industrial and political Britain, perhaps irrevocably. Its legacy continues to be felt in former mining communities across the country, and it remains a defining moment in the history of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Trade Union movement.
This event brings together a distinguished panel of experts, all authors of studies looking at the strike, who will discuss their own recollections of 1984/85 and the lasting consequences for the country.
- Dr Hywel Francis MP
- Professor David Howell, York University
- David Hencke, The Guardian
- Tyrone O’Sullivan, Tower Colliery
- Michael Crick, BBC Newsnight (Chair).
