Dr. David Allsop is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. Dr. Carol Stephenson is a Principle Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria University. David Wray is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. Among the men and women contributors are an MP, a former MP, several academics and many former miners.

• Contents:Glossary Introduction: Carol Stephenson.Part 1. The People.Chapter 1: A young miners view of the strike, 30 years on. Ian Lavery.Chapter 2. I am Woman, I am Strong! Barbara Jackson.Chapter 3. From the Picket Line to the Palace of Westminster. Sian James.Chapter 4. I Never Went Back. Peter SmithChapter 5. Echoes of the Strike. Esther Johnson and Debbie Ballin.Part 2. The Controversies. Chapter 6. We shall not be constitutionalized out of a defence of our jobs. David Allsop and David Wray. Chapter 7: An Open and Shut Case? Reappraising 'Conspiracy' and 'Cock-up' Theories of the 1984-5 Miners' Strike. David Waddington Chapter 8. 'Iron Hand': Representations and Ramifications of the 'Battle of Orgreave.' David Waddington Chapter 9: The Minority Report: Being on Strike in Nottinghamshire. David Allsop with Eric Eaton and Keith Stanley. Part 3. Ongoing issues.Chapter 10. The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign: the pursuit of justice. Granville Williams.Chapter 11: Solidarity Forever or the End of an Era? Unions and the strike. John StirlingChapter 12: The Gala that Would Not Die: Memory and heritage in the post-industrial mining communities of County Durham. Carol Stephenson & David Wray.Appendix: NUM rules.

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