Channel 4 News | The story of women in the miners’ strike told through music @Channel4News | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
It's forty years since thousands of miners were on an all-out strike against Margaret Thatcher's plans to shut down 20 coal mines - the biggest industrial action since the Second World War.

Alongside them on the picket lines were their wives, sisters and daughters - who played a crucial role in the dispute from collecting donations to speaking at rallies.

The womens' place in the strikes is now being told in "A Northern Requiem" - which makes its debut this weekend in Chesterfield.

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