'Your words, not "mine"' - Newspaper reports on the Miners Strike 1984

With the 40th anniversary of the 1984 Miners' Strike in Britain, I made a virtual lecture about how the media portrayed the strike, and a history of the 84 strike as well. If you check my channel you'll see other mining videos as well.

[@gillianstapleton7741]

A good and balanced view of what happened, thank you. My family were all involved with mining at the time, either in the pits or working in related industries - dad was a welder and riveter mending coal trucks. One of my friends was a young police officer at the time and his loyalties and family ties were severely tested. He was at Orgreave. I realise that this is anecdotal, but he told me that he and colleagues saw Met police officers brought in as agent provocateurs. There were indeed dirty dealings.

[@jamesbarker7563]

Great video - got to say I think all your content is historically balanced and great to watch! I have also extensively researched he’s the history of Rotherham and find all your videos on the matter to be informative and great to watch! Keep it up Joshua!

[@LC001]

Great piece of history to look back on for a Sunday morning