Blood, Sweat, and Tears with Mike Simons
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Photographs from the Great Miners Strike (1984-1985)
14th March 2025, 6:30pm
1 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QE
The 1984-85 miners’ strike was the longest national strike in British history. The miners took on a government that provoked the strike and then prosecuted it like a civil war. This book shows the resistance of the miners and their supporters
The striking communities withstood unprecedented police brutality and travesties of justice in the courts. They endured poverty, hunger and media smears, and they held firm for a year.
The photographs in this book document that struggle. The men and women who captured these images decided from the start of the strike which side they were on.
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