BBC Documentaries

The Miners' Strike - A Personal Memoir by Kim Howells (2014x43)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Mar 09, 2014

It's now 30 years since the epic struggle between the miners and a Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, a strike that lasted a bitter twelve months. Former Labour government minister Kim Howells was involved at the heart of the action, working for the National Union of Mineworkers in South Wales. In this deeply-felt memoir, he asks some challenging questions about the conduct, the strategy and the outcomes of the strike.