Good morning. In 1999, the investigative journalist David Conn sat down at home one evening to watch a documentary by the film-maker Yvette Vanson called The Battle for Orgreave, which told the story of the violent policing in 1984 of coalminers at the Orgreave coking plant in Rotherham, South Yorkshire during the miner’s strike.
A pivotal moment in the year-long strike by the mining unions, opposed by the Thatcher government, what happened on that day at Orgreave is also remembered as one of the most brutal clashes in British industrial history.
