An archive of primary materials relating to the Miners' Strike is held in ARU's library in Cambridge.
The archive, consisting of two large boxes of material, allows students to develop their practical skills as historians by working with and evaluating unpublished documents.
Included in the archive are posters and postcards, books, pamphlets, newspaper articles, Christmas cards, and information issued by support groups.
There is also a collection of personal letters and correspondence; these include the letters of Lore Burgess, a trilingual artist and tour guide, who came to Cambridge from Nazi Germany in the Kindertransport in the 1930s and became an active member of the Cambridge Miners Support Group, kindly donated by her daughter, Lore Winning Burgess.
You can see some examples of archive materials below.
