Ref No | SWCC/AUD/603 |
Title | <title linktype="simple">Welsh Council for Civil and Political Liberties Study</title> |
Interview of Lodge Committee - Maerdy |
Subject Based Projects |
Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
<p>NOT FULLY CATALOGUED. Recorded memoirs of members of Maerdy Lodge concerning the 1984-85 strike. Includes discussion on attitude of the police to pickets; road blocks; their attitude to the police; use of police horses and dogs on the picket lines, especially at Orgreave; police attack on pickets; provocation by police; allegations that plain clothes policemen were dressed as pickets; and general political questioning</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Littleton</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Arthur & Coombes</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">National Union of Mineworkers & Maerdy Lodge & Welsh Council For Civil And Political Liberties & Communist Party</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Maerdy</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Pontypridd</emph><emph altrender="county">Mid Glamorgan</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Keresley</emph><emph altrender="county">Coventry</emph><emph altrender="parish">Midlands</emph><emph altrender="township">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Orgreave</emph><emph altrender="county">Staffordshire</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Baddesley</emph><emph altrender="county">Warwickshire</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Daw Mill</emph><emph altrender="county">Warwickshire</emph><emph altrender="parish">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1984-85</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">disputes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">pickets </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">police </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">horses </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">women </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
Date | 1980 = 1984 |
5.8.1984 |
Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
Physical Description | good |
Extent | no of tapes : 2 |
Language | English |