The following individuals and groups have been involved in the Cambridge and the Miners' Strike research project.
A grant of £1,600 to pay for the student intern to work throughout July and August 2015 plus £400 for expenses was awarded by the (then) Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, under the Undergraduate Researchers’ Scheme for a bid submitted by Professor Rohan McWilliam.
These web pages, which replace earlier versions, were constructed by Elizabeth Ayris in the autumn of 2024 to whom we express our very warm thanks.
Interviews: Vivien Bailey (St Albans), Morag Shiach, Frank Wilkinson, Jim Line and Tony Williams (filmed in Abertillery) all interviewed by Shona Hoey and Mary Joannou, filmed by Shona Hoey (BA History, undergraduate researcher on this project).
Interviews in 2015 with Sue Kington, Paul Marris, Lucy Munby, and Alison New: conducted by Shona Hoey and Mary Joannou filmed by Alexandra Petkova (BA in Film Studies). Interview with Tony Carter conducted by Mary Joannou and filmed by Alexandra Petkova.
Interviews in 2015 with Philip Brown and Zoe Munby conducted by Mary Joannou and filmed by Alexandra Petkova, Tobin Aldrich (in London), Jon Lawrence and Bethan Rees conducted by Mary Joannou and filmed by Ray Parr.
Interviews in 2016 with Anne Campbell, Nicki Glegg and Rick Leggatt conducted by Mary Joannou and filmed by Eliot Wymer.
Blidworth interviewees Mal Howarth, Ann Petty, Geoff Peace, John and Yvonne Woodhead, filmed in Mansfield by Eric Eaton at the offices of the NUM Ex and Retired Miners Association.
Construction of web pages (previously published) by Gareth Long, transcripts of interviews by Shona Hoey.
Research and original written materials for this website: Professor Mary Joannou.
Our thanks to Alison Ainley, Marlene Buick, Barbara Carr, Paul Bloomfield, Eric Eaton, Graham Fennel and the Anglia Ruskin University Library, Maxine Hall, John Hogan, Jon Lawrence, Jim Line, Gareth Long, Zoe Munby, Keith Stanley, Marie Thompson, Dr Mark Vincent, Mike Weaver, Pearl Williams, Dr Adrian Williamson, Tony Williams, Gina Winning Burgess for additional help.
The papers and letters of Alan and Lore Burgess courtesy of Gina Winning Burgess.
Photograph of Lucy Munby and Tony Carter with memorabilia courtesy of Rohan McWilliam.
Photograph of the monument at the Six Bells Pit, Abertillery, Jim Line.
Photograph of Rufford banner courtesy of Nottinghamshire NUM Ex and Retired Miners’ Association.
Photograph of Doreen Brierley, Keith Stanley.
Photograph of Pearl Williams, Mary Joannou.
Gwent Food Fund postcard designed by Peter Cormack published by Stoke Newington CP.
Unattributed photographs from Lucy Munby scrapbooks, photographers not known.
Myfanwy, by kind permission of Gary Strachlan and the Abertillery Orpheus Male Voice Choir.
Many groups and individuals contributed to the Cambridge Miners’ Support Group in 1984. They included members of the Cambridge and District Trades Council and the following trade unions: AUT, ACTT, ASTMS, AUEW, COHSE, Equity, GMBATU, SOGAT, NALGO, NATFHE, NGA, NUPE, NUT, TGWU, UWA.
Other supporters included students and staff at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire Regional College, children at Parkside School, the Arjuna Collective, the Claimants Union, the Communist Party, the Co-operative Society, Grapevine Bookshop, members of local church congregations and of the Society of Friends, the SWP, the Tawney Society, the YMCA, and virtually every ward of the Cambridge Labour Party.