A major yearlong exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike opens at the National Coal Mining Museum for England this week.
84/85 – The Longest Year opens on Wednesday 6 March 2024, exactly 40 years to the day since the beginning of the strike and will run until the anniversary of the end of the strike, Monday 3 March 2025.
The free exhibition focusses on the experiences of miners and their families, giving a voice to three different points of view: striking miners, those that went back early and those that didn’t strike at all.