A group of participants in one of these events were known as the “Dirty Thirty” and were supported by the WAPC. One of these events led to the creation of a contingency plan by MP Nicholas Ridley. A party leader publicly broke with a leader of one of these events after the death of cab driver David Wilkie. During one of these events, nearly 100 people were arrested during the Battle of Orgreave. Mark Ashton led a group of lesbian and gay people who supported participants in one of these events. One of these events that lasted from 1984 to 1985 began with a walkout at the Cortonwood Colliery and was led by NUM president Arthur Scargill. For 10 points, what kind of event occurred after Margaret Thatcher announced plans to close supposedly uneconomic pits in northern England? ■END■
ANSWER: coal miners’ strikes [accept coal strikes; prompt on marches by asking “during what sort of larger movement?”; prompt on strikes by asking “by whom?” prompt on miner’s strikes by asking “mining of what resource?”] (The WAPC is Women Against Pit Closures.)
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