Blood, Sweat & Tears Photographs from the great miners strike 1984-1985 Order Picture: John Harris (Report Digital) Order The 1984-85 miners’ strike was the longest national strike in British history. The miners took on a government that provoked the strike and then prosecuted it like a civil war. This book shows the resistance of the miners and their supporters The striking communities withstood unprecedented police brutality and travesties of justice in the courts. They endured poverty, hung