Jonathan Trigell, author of Under Country, recalls the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ in Yorkshire during the miners’ strike of 1984. Though it’s described as a riot, he argues, was it, in fact, the last battle fought on British soil to this day? 18 June, 1984, might already appear to be quite recent as a suitable subject […]
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
This is the story of the miners’ strike: the sudden shock of poverty; the camaraderie; the brutality. It is the story of one man’s fight for redemption, as the wounds of an embattled generation hardened to scars. There was blood on coal, it didn’t come for free. But it drove the factories and the steel […]