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Coal: Andrew Turnbull note to MT (report on “Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners Strike”) [does not show “how near, on occasions, the Government came to disaster”] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 1/12/28/ f3
Editorial comments: The report itself is not attached to this document, but annexes to the report are - a “Chronological list of main list of miners' strike 1984-85” and a table of “Legal Actions”. The full report can be read here, taken from the file at TNA.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 16pp
Themes: Executive, Judiciary, Industry, Privatized & state industries, Energy, Law & order, Leadership, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, 1984-85 coal strike