"Nine thousand arrests. Two miners killed on the picket lines. The leader of the Kent NUM imprisoned. Trade union leaders pilloried as fascists. millions of pounds raised in the street collections. Communities drawing together to reveal undreamt of strenght. Women at the front line of the struggle. A national union's funds sequestered. And a Tory Councillor from the North Derbyshire declaring 'I'm the NUM'. Month after month the miners' remarkable strike was been hitting the headlines and making the history. There has never been anything like it before..."

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