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Women in the Miners' Strike, 1984-5
Early days
Who saw the strike coming, and how did women react when it was announced? Listen to Marjorie Simpson, from Stainforth, South Yorkshire, describing the run-up to the strike. Sisters Lorraine and Linda, from Kent, talk about the anxieties women felt when the strike was announced. In South Wales, Kay Case was a canteen worker at Deep Navigation colliery, and soon out on strike herself. And Kay Sutcliffe, in Kent, was involved in activism right from the first days of the strike.
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