Arthur Scargill

Arthur Scargill

ARTHUR SCARGILL. British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, he was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. He led an unofficial strike in 1969 and played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974 ; the latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government. Thereafter he led the NUM through the 1984–1985 miners' strike. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated

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Arthur Scargill Signed Photograph

Reference Number. 15115Z

£45.00

An original vintage 1985 press photograph, clearly signed in marker pen by Arthur Scargill

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