The Great Miners’ Strike 1984 Coursework Assignment By Mr RJ Huggins 2010

Aims & Objectives 1  Why was the Miners' Strike in 1984 significant?  Why is it still significant today?  How to select and deploy information for a museum display?

Coursework Question: Should Doncaster Museum include a section on the Miners Strike? What should be included?

Assignments Task 2Task 1 Research & design a museum display Write a persuasive formal letter

Designing a Museum Display Why was the Miners Strike Significant in 1984? Which groups am I going to focus on? Where am I going to get my resources from? How am I going to present my Information? You will need to be able to explain your decisions for each of these questions in your letter in Task 2.

Which groups am I going to focus on? Why was the Miners Strike Significant in 1984? Outbreak / Start Impact on the Family Economic Impact Community Attitudes to Authority Policing Economic = Money Impact = Effects / Consequences

Outbreak / Start of the Strike  How did the group you are looking at react to the start of the strike?  What examples can you give from the evidence that you have gathered?  Explain how significant (important) the start of the strike was for them. Point Example Explain

Impact of the Family  What effect did the Miners’ Strike have on the family that you are looking at?  What examples can you give to back this up from the evidence that you have gathered?  Explain how your examples show how significant (important) this effect was? Point Example Explain

Economic Impact of the strike  What financial (money) effect did the Miners’ Strike have on the group that you are looking at?  What examples can you give to back this up from the evidence that you have gathered?  Explain how your examples prove how significant (important) this effect was. Point Example Explain

Impact the Community  What effect did the Miners’ Strike have on the community your group belonged to?  What examples can you give to back this up from the evidence that you have gathered?  Explain how your examples prove how significant (important) this effect was. Point Example Explain

Impact on Policing  What effect did the Miners’ Strike have on the police managed pickets?  What examples can you give to back this up from the evidence that you have gathered?  Explain how your examples prove how significant (important) this effect was. Point Example Explain

Attitudes Towards Authority  What effect did the Miners’ Strike have on the attitudes of your group towards authority?  What examples can you give to back this up from the evidence that you have gathered?  Explain how your examples prove how significant (important) this effect was. Point Example Explain

What resources can I use? Resources Mini Laptops Internet / School VLE Exercise Book Notes Notes taken from interviews Resource Booklets Video Clips Please note either at the end or in the Notes where you got information from.

Guidelines  This is your work, nobody else's!  You can not share ideas or talk about your work with anyone in the classroom.  Your teacher can not help you create your display.  If you cheat you will be reported to the board and get zero.  You do not get any marks for special effects!

Letter to Doncaster Museum  It should be a formal letter addressed to the Museum Curator Geoff Preece  Written in the present tense.  Be written in the polite language designed to convince him to consider your ideas.  Organised into PEE’d paragraphs.  About 1 to 2 pages long.

What should I include? Why should Doncaster Museum include a section on the Miners Strike? Why was coal mining important to this area? Why is it important to remember what the miners were fighting for? How did the strike change the lives of striking miners? How did the strike change the lives of working miners? How did the strike and its after effects affect family life? How did the strike affect attitudes towards the police? What impact has loosing the strike had on unemployment, drugs and crime in our area? Why is it important that young people know about the strike today?

Levels of Solidarity in the strike by area[37] AreaManpower % on strike 19/11/84 % on strike 14/2/85 % on strike 1/3/85 Kent3, Lancashire6, Leicestershire1, Midlands19, North Derbyshire10, North-East23, North Wales1, Nottinghamshire30, Scotland13, South Derbyshire3,00011 South Wales21, Workshops9, Yorkshire56, NATIONAL196,

Impact of the strike on coal mining in Britain.  In 2010, there are less than 10,000 coal miners in Britain.  The NUM has less than

Unemployment & Poverty  The closure of pits also affected engineering, railways, electricity and steel production, which were all connected with the coal industry.  Unemployment reached as high as 50% in some villages over the following decade. Suicides rose significantly. UnemploymentSuicides  The 1994 European Union enquiry into poverty classified Grimethorpe in South Yorkshire as the poorest settlement in the country and one of the poorest in the E.U.European Union Grimethorpe  The county of South Yorkshire was made into an Objective 1 development zone and every single ward in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire was classified as in need of special assistanceObjective 1 development zonewardCity of WakefieldWest Yorkshire

Community  Migration out of old mining areas left many villages full of derelict houses and earning the reputation as ghost towns.ghost towns  The tensions between those who had supported the strike and those who had not, lasted for many years afterwards (and sometimes continues today, having been passed down to the next generation), eroding the strong sense of unity that had previously existed in such communities.

Crime Statistics for South Yorks

Statistics / Facts about South Yorkshire today  The percentage of households that were victims of crime at least once in 2007/08 was 19.6 per cent, compared with an England and Wales average of 17.1 per cent  The unemployment rate stood at 6.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2008, higher than the UK rate of 5.4 per cent  In April 2008, the median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees on adult rates was £444, lower than the UK median of £479 

Crime in Rotherham Today ROTHERHAM COUNCIL ENGLISH AVERAGE Population253,000- Households109,000- Violence against the person Sexual offences Robbery offences Burglary dwelling offences Theft of a motor vehicle offences Theft from a vehicle offences7.86.3