MetFilm Distribution to release Embankment Films doc Strike: An Uncivil War in the UK | News screendaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from screendaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gripping new novel set during the 1984 Miners Strike yorkshirepost.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yorkshirepost.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The WSWS spoke with Liz French from Betteshanger, a former pit village in the Kent coalfield in south-east England. Liz was a founding member of the National Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 Miner’s Strike. Among the 200 miners imprisoned during the 1984-85 strike, Liz’s late husband Terry received one of the longest prison sentences of five years.
Elvi Piper’s fine revival of Boff Whalley’s 2014 musical comedy about three sisters on a pit village frontline in 1984 is full of humour, drama and lived experience