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The Enemy Above: Orgreave and the neoliberal police state
Zoe Cussen explores the history of the 1984 Battle of Orgreave and its lasting repercussions on the nature of British policing. On the 15th of June, the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign and their supporters will take to Sheffield City Centre, demanding a long-overdue government inquiry into the brutal events of the 18th of June…
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‘A woman’s place is on the miner’s picket lines!’
Women Against Pit Closures: the local, the national and the ideological. ‘This strike wasn’t just a war fought on the battlegrounds of the picket line, Parliament and public opinion. It was as much a battle in the homes and families of those fighting for their communities’. This is how the radical theatre company Red Ladder introduce…
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‘Keir Hardie’s cathedral was our quarry’
The history of Mirfield’s socialist monastery You can see the towers when driving away from Huddersfield: the two coned brick turrets, level with the tree-line, of the Community of the Resurrection monastery high on the hill. I have travelled past this site several times a week for a number of years, but only recently did…
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Hull, Halifax, and Hell
The eternal Yorkshire stubbornness, city living, and Victorian folk lessons for the 21st century world of work. Folk music is undeniably integral to the cultural history of Yorkshire. While the often informal and serpentine movement of folk music across time and space makes it hard to strictly regionalise English folk, our region is well noted…
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West Riding to Republican Spain
The Leeds lads in the International Brigades In 1989 a small plaque was unveiled in the City Hall of Leeds, by the then newly-installed socialist Leader of the Council Jon Trickett. It read: ‘This memorial honours the men from Leeds who fought in the International Brigade with the Spanish People in defence of Democracy and…
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