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* Collections of the Month: Miners' Strike, 1984-1985.
On 12th March 1984, Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of
Mineworkers (NUM), called a national strike against the threat of widespread
pit closures. This was to be one of the most bitter industrial disputes
Britain has ever seen.
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* New contributor: King's College, Cambridge.
* Latest additions: Descriptions from the Universities of Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Leeds, Reading, Southampton, and Warwick,
from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and from the Scott Polar
Research Institute.
These include descriptions of the papers of war poet Rupert Brooke
(1887-1915); pamphlets of anti-colonial pressure groups in Aden; and papers
of film director Sir David Lean (1908-1991) relating to Doctor Zhivago
(1965).
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