ILLINOIS: MACOUPIN COUNTY, CHRISTIAN COUNTY
Corley, Kevin Throw Out The Water. (Hardball Press, 2020)
Gorn, Elliott J. Mother Jones. The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Hill and Wang, 2001)
Oblinger, Carl D. Divided Kingdom. Work, Community and the Mining Wars in the Central Illinois Coal Fields During the Great Depression. (Illinois State Historical Society, 1991)
Orear, Leslie F. Mother Jones and the Union Miners Cemetery Mt Olive, Illinois (Illinois Labor History Society, 2002)
Rauzi, Harold R. Coal Mines on the Prairie. The Life of an American Community (Cleveland Heights, 2019)
Wieck, David Thoreau Woman From Spillertown. A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck. (Southern Illinois University, 1992)
ENGLAND: COUNTY DURHAM AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Cave, Hilary. Recollections of the Miners’ Strike. (Mainfest Press, 2021)
Crookston, Peter. The Pitmen’s Requiem (McNidder & Grace, 2010)
Emery, Norman. The Caoalminers of Durham. (The History Press, 1992)
Gildea, Robert. Backbone of the Nation. Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85. (Yale University Press, 2023)
Goodman, Geoffrey. The Miners’ Strike. (Pluto Press, 1985)
Griffin, Alan R. County Under Siege. Nottinghamshire in the Miners’ Strike 1984-5. (Morland Publishing, 1985)
Hill, Fiona. There Is Nothing For You Here. Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century. (Mariner Books, 2021)
McManners, Robert and Gillian Wales. Way To The Better. The Spennymoor Settlement. (Gemini Publications, 2008)
Paterson, Henry. Look Back in Anger. The Miners’ Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 years On. (Five Leaves Publication, 2014)
Pantazatos, Andreas and Helaine Silverman. “Memory, pride and politics on parade: the Durham Miners’ Gala” In: Heritage and Festivals in Europe. Performing Identities, edited by Ullrich Kockel, Cristina Clopot, Baiba Tjarve, and Mairead Nic Craith, pp. 110-127 (Routledge, 2020)
Pocock, Douglas. The Story of Durham. (The History Press, 2013)
Smith, Ken and Jean. Splendour of the Gala (Ergo Press, 2009)
Temple, David. Durham Miners’ Millennium Book. (TUPS Books)
DOCUMENTARIES
- Thames TV about Cortonwood where 1984 Miners Strike began: CLICK
- Thames TV interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaking about striking miners: CLICK
- TV EYE: Arthur Scargill (1985): CLICK
- Why Did 80% of Nottinghamshire Miners Refuse to Strike in 1984?: CLICK
- The Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years On: CLICK
- NUM Nottinghamshire Area 40th Anniversary of the Miners Strike, Part 1: CLICK
- BBC ONE: Black Coal Miners in Nottinghamshire: CLICK
- [About Orgreave]: CLICK
- Orgreave raw footage: CLICK
- British Library: The Miners Strike 40 Years On: CLICK
- The End of Coal: How It Transformed Britain and Why It Disappeared So Quickly: CLICK
- The Dramatic Death of the UK Coal Industry: CLICK
- The Final Coal Mine in the UK – The Last Miners: CLICK
- The UK Makes History as the First Major Nation to Quit Coal: CLICK
- It’s the End of Coal for the UK (in French with English subtitles): CLICK
- Britain Becomes First G7 Nation to End Coal Power: CLICK
- UK Ends Era of Coal Power Forever Closing Ratcliffe Power Station: CLICK
- Kelllingley Colliery [Yorkshire]: Britain’s Last [Deep] Coal Mine Closes: CLICK
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