Natalie Thomlinson

Mar 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Natalie Thomlinson |Jörg Arnold

The miners’ strike of 1984–5 must be the most well-worked seam in British labour history. Is there anything new to say? Two books by young scholars seek to answer this question partly by approaching the strike from unexpected angles. Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson focus on women (in large measure miners’ wives) and the strike. This is not, in itself, a new topic, but they change the perspective partly by looking back a long way before 1984.

Jan 12, 2024 | eventbrite.com | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Natalie Thomlinson

Please arrive between 12 and 12:15; coffee will be served. At 12:15 we will be screening the short film 'Not Just Tea and Sandwiches' (1984), followed by a Q&A with two of the filmmakers, Roger Shannon and Jonnie Turpie.

Aug 11, 2023 | tribunemag.co.uk | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite |Natalie Thomlinson

The miners’ strike of 1984-5 pitted the Thatcher government and the National Coal Board against Arthur Scargill’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), in a battle for the future of Britain’s coal-mining industry, and, by proxy, the entire direction of the country’s political economy.