{"id":68690,"date":"2024-11-21T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=68690"},"modified":"2024-11-21T13:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:57:29","slug":"legacy-of-the-miners-strikes-still-burns-40-years-later-in-national-museum-cardiff-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2024\/11\/21\/legacy-of-the-miners-strikes-still-burns-40-years-later-in-national-museum-cardiff-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy of the miners&#8217; strikes still burns 40 years later in National Museum Cardiff exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A new art exhibit is showcasing the legacy of the 1984 miners&#8217; strikes around South Wales to mark the 40th anniversary of the strike<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Inside National Museum Cardiff's mining strike exhibit \" class=\"wp-image-68727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1366x683.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1400x700.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Inside National Museum Cardiff's mining strike exhibit \" class=\"wp-image-68727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1366x683.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale-1400x700.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_exhibit-scale.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photography from inside the exhibit highlights the suffrage experienced during the strikes. Photo credit: Alanya Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>National Museum Cardiff is spotlighting the extended impacts of the 1984 miners\u2019 strikes in South Wales through an exhibit showcasing the four-decade effects of the strikes on mining communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interactive exhibit \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/museum.wales\/cardiff\/whatson\/12346\/Streic-84-85-Strike\/\">Streic! 84-85 Strike!<\/a>\u2019 features photographs and protest banners produced during the strikes, highlighting how the aftershocks of violence and adversity remain in Cardiff and across Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1984-1985 mining strike caused a national conflict with the industrial sector and then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sparked by major closures of uneconomic mining pits, impacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-68205379\">22,000<\/a> miners across Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomos \u2018Roy\u2019 Leach, an 88-year-old retired under-manager of Betws New Mine from Ammanford, said: \u201cDuring the strike, we weren\u2019t allowed to go on strike, we were in the pit every day looking after it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was a good camaraderie underground with the miners, but that wasn\u2019t the same after the strike\u201d Leach shares, noting that unemployment caused many people to suffer in his community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty years after the 1984 movement, the social legacy of the strikes remains <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/12\/17\/in-depth-welsh-historys-uncertain-future\/\">unforgotten<\/a> by both sides of the picket line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"68725\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"A miner looks at the camera in his work uniform \" class=\"wp-image-68725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-770x616.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-960x768.jpg 960w, 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uniform \" class=\"wp-image-68725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-770x616.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-960x768.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-1350x1080.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-293x234.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg-1400x1120.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocailLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_Miner-scale.jpg.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tomos Leach stands proudly in his uniform before entering the mines. Photo credit: Tomos Leach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"571\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"68726\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"A group of police officers cheer together whilst working during the miners' strikes\" class=\"wp-image-68726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg.jpg 714w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg-293x234.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"571\" data-id=\"68726\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"A group of police officers cheer together whilst working during the miners' strikes\" class=\"wp-image-68726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg.jpg 714w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Supporting-image_PoliceOfficer-scale.jpg-293x234.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paul Heckle (bottom left) celebrates surrounded by work colleagues. Photo credit: Paul Heckle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Heckle, a 70-year-old former member of the Special Shield Trained Unit, experienced a frontline perspective of the miners\u2019 strikes when deployed as part of the police to encourage public order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were being paid 24 hours a day\u201d Heckle notes of the long working hours, \u201cwe would sleep in territorial army halls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contrasting experiences of those involved were vivid at picket lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added \u201dYou have that juxtaposition of the police from some other part of the country coming with loads of money and the local people not even being able to feed their children.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heckle said \u201cWhen you get an opportunity to do that as a young police officer, you don\u2019t think about what you\u2019re actually doing, or what effect you\u2019re having on the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/museum.wales\/cardiff\/whatson\/12346\/Streic-84-85-Strike\/\">Streic! 84-85 Strike!<\/a> will be exhibited at the National Museum Cardiff until April 2025 for all ages, where ticket prices vary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-68729\" alt=\"Inside the National Museum Cardiff exhibit about the 1984 miners' strikes, with banners on the walls\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1024x512.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1366x683.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1400x700.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-68729\" alt=\"Inside the National Museum Cardiff exhibit about the 1984 miners' strikes, with banners on the walls\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1024x512.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-770x385.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1366x683.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-585x293.jpg 585w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_-1400x700.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/SocialLife_AlanyaSmith_Boxout-image-scale_.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">What is your lasting memory of the miners&#8217; strikes?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomos Leach, retired miner: [Women] did collections, they cooked food and they looked after people that were unwell and didn\u2019t have any money at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Heckle, former police officer: The strike for me is a Mars bar. I can\u2019t even look at them now. They kept giving us these snack packs, they seemed to want to feed us all the time<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new art exhibit is showcasing the legacy of the 1984 mining strikes around South Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":68724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7934],"tags":[180,3962,5364,724,2645],"coauthors":[8076],"class_list":["post-68690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-life","tag-art","tag-miners","tag-miners-strike","tag-national-museum-cardiff","tag-photography-exhibition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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