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	Battle of Orgreave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Orgreave is the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike.
		The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) organised a mass picket of Orgreave for June 18, 1984, with the intention of blockading the plant, and ideally forcing its temporary closure.
		Following a show of defiance by NUM leader Arthur Scargill, who walked in front of the police lines for a few moments, there was a lull in the proceedings, and most of the picketers headed to Orgreave village for refreshments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Orgreave (1403 words)

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		Orgreave depicts one of those decisive moments whose representation implies and condenses a wider historical drama, and like History Painting, its meaning and impact is dependent on our knowledge of an external narrative, hooked into the form which then stands in for it.
		Orgreave reduces the political defeat of the miners to a public display of emotional catharsis, sliding from the politics of social confrontation and defeat to the cathartic psychological register of the post-traumatic.
		Orgreave properly ‘represents’ is the contemporary, ‘post-political’ politics of mourning and anxiety outlined above, for the simple reason that if there was seriously a question of representation at stake, one might expect that the work presented some evidence of thought, investigation or analysis, and a possible vision of how to act in the future.
	www.jjcharlesworth.com /articles/orgreave.htm (2034 words)

	Jeremy Deller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in London and studied the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
		Deller is best-known for his Battle of Orgreave (2001), a recreation of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.
		Deller was winner of the Turner Prize in 2004 for his installation Memory Bucket (2003), a documentary about Crawford, Texas – the hometown of George W Bush – and the siege in nearby Waco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeremy_Deller (243 words)

	Justice for Mineworkers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With regards to Orgreave, he gives a lengthy and detailed description of the battle's events, describing scenes of mounted police racing their horses through the masses of pickets, and of riot squads baton charging with bloody indifference.
		Although the book is primarily an account of the Battle of Orgreave, which is extremely well achieved through the use of original documents, pamphlets, news clippings, anecdotes and photographs, it also provides the reader with a wealth of information about the strike itself, from various viewpoints.
		Before Orgreave, the local police forces were responsible for bringing their own cases to trial: as a result of Orgreave, the Tories created the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to handle all prosecutions, independent of the police, though, as a branch of the Home Office, not independent of the state.
	freespace.virgin.net /terry.norm/newsletter_oct2002.htm (3281 words)

	Battle of Britain: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Battle of Britain was the first major failure of the Germans in World War II, and it thwarted Hitler's plan to force Britain to accept peace or face invasion.
		The Battle of Britain in Victory and Defeat: The Achievements...by Robin Higham The Battle of Britain in Victory and Defeat: The Achievements...Priory, the victor in the critical 1940 Battle of Britain.
		When the Germans advanced in the Battle of the Bulge, he was given temporary command of two American...committee under the permanent defense organization of Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/battle_of_britain.jsp (1967 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Battle of Orgreave - Monday 18 June, 1984
		The Battle of Orgreave might have ended just beyond the railway bridge on Highfield Lane, because the Pickets were now half a mile away from the gates of the coke works, but the Miners were in no mood to give up.
		One of the most bizarre twists of the Orgreave tale was the re-enactment of the Battle in 2001.
		The final irony of the Battle of Orgreave was that these most deserving targets of the snatch-squads were completely ignored as they attempted their pathetic and twisted reprisals.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/brunel/A9361334 (5802 words)

	Leaving Los Angeles: Louisa buck on mike figgis's battle of orgreave. (Film).(Brief Article) - Artforum International - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The conflict shifts to the nearby village of Orgreave, and the intrepid auteur is still there in the thick of it, clutching his Steadicam.
		It was in Orgreave, almost exactly seventeen years earlier (on June 18, 1984), that some five thousand striking coal miners clashed with--and were savagely routed by--a force of nearly eight thousand riot police outside the South Yorkshire village's coking plant.
		The Battle of Orgreave, as the events of that day were quickly dubbed, marked a pivotal moment in the bitter dispute between Margaret Thatcher's Tory government and Arthur Scargill's National Union of Miners (NUM).
	highbeam.com /doc/1G1:82469489/Leaving+Los+Angeles~C~+Louisa+buck+... (957 words)

	ARTANGEL PAST
		On the 18 June 1984 there occurred at the Orgreave coking plant one of the strike's most violent confrontations, begun in a field near to the plant and culminating in a cavalry charge through the village of Orgreave.
		Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave was a spectacular re-enactment of what happened on that day, orchestrated by Howard Giles, historical re-enactment expert and former director of English Heritage's event programme.
		The Battle of Orgreave was filmed under the direction of Mike Figgis for Artangel Media and Channel 4, and was aired on Sunday 20th October 2002.
	www.artangel.org.uk /pages/past/01/01_deller.htm (346 words)

	The Battle of Orgreave - Account (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In tactical terms, the Battle of Orgreave took place in three phases, the first consisting of the police response to thousands of protestors milling about in front of their line, shouting and occasionally throwing missiles.
		Either the “battle” had to be allowed to die down, or the police would have to clear the active protesters from the ground in front of their line.
		The Battle of Orgreave did not stop any pit closures so perhaps the only winners were Margaret Thatcher and her government.
	www.historicalfilmservices.com /orgreave_account.htm (4357 words)

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		The Battle of Orgreave is the story of the extraordinary re-enactment, conceived by Jeremy Deller, of the violent confrontation between striking miners and police outside a coking plant at Orgreave in 1984.
		Deller's collaboration with event organiser Howard Giles includes interviews with some of the 800 re-enactors and local participants involved in Deller's event as well as film of the recreation of the climactic clash of the bitter miners' strike.
		In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike and on June 18, 1984 one of the strike's most violent confrontations began in a field near the plant and culminated in a cavalry charge through the village of Orgreave.
	www.imagesfestival.com /art.php?id=35 (110 words)

	Journeyman Pictures : short films : The Battle of Orgreave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Orgreave in the North of England was the focal point for a mass protest by miners in June 1984.
		The culmination of these protests was a mass gathering of miners from all over the country at Orgreave.
		In this film we interview defendants about their experiences of being at Orgreave and the tactics used by police.
	www.journeyman.tv /?lid=10025 (388 words)

	The miners' strike 1984-5
		Extract from The Battle for Orgreave by Bernard Jackson, a miner who, with 14 others, was arrested on 18 June, charged with riot and put on trial.
		At Orgreave, the push against the police lines always happened either when the lorries were arriving or leaving.
		We had never broken though but whenever it looked as though we were getting the better of it the truncheons came out, crack, crack, crack, on to heads, steel-gloved fists shot out of the line into the nearest faces and police boots smashed into the shins of the front line of pickets.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/2211/print (1024 words)

	The Battle of Orgreave - Nottingham Articles - LeftLion.co.uk
		This bloody skirmish became known as The Battle of Orgreave.
		It was good to have a chance to see The Battle of Orgreave on a cinema screen, yet a privilege to see it accompanied by a Nottingham audience.
		The resonance that the subject matter had was evident in the laughter that trickled through the people watching when ex-miners made witty remarks about Mrs.T. There were also poignant silences when the film recalled how she wickedly labelled the striking miners as 'the enemy within'.
	www.leftlion.co.uk /articles.cfm/id/357 (999 words)

	Netribution > News > Northern Exposure > Figgis Battle of Orgreave
		The "Battle of Orgreave" where hundreds of miners clashed with police in the South Yorkshire village 17 years ago today, was staged again featuring some of the original participants.
		The original clashes happened outside the Orgreave coking plant in June 1984 and led to dozens of injuries and arrests.
		The reconstructed battle was filmed by British director Mike Figgis, for a Channel 4 documentary to be screened next year and was the idea of conceptual artist Jeremy Deller.
	www.netribution.co.uk /news/northern_exposure/72/6.html (291 words)

	The Battle of Orgreave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of EventPlan's key objectives was to remain entirely objective and non-political, recreating the battle as accurately as possible free of the "spin" (from both sides) that had at the time and has since clouded the facts.
		The Battle of Orgreave was conceived by Jeremy Deller.
		The Battle of Orgreave was in part supported by the National Lottery through the A4E scheme administered by the Arts Council of England.
	www.historicalfilmservices.com /orgreave.htm (1780 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight \| Review \| The Battle of Orgreave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"The Battle of Orgreave" - film director Mike Figgis and artist Jeremy Deller have recreated this emotive period of British history for television.
		I thought the policeman talking at the end, when he said he had been minor, and he gave up being a miner and he became a cop because he wanted to serve his community with the help of Margaret Thatcher, he ended up destroying it.
		First of all, I was upset that the situation was presented as a battle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/2332999.stm (720 words)

	The Arts: When history repeats itself too soon Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Seventeen years ago, on 18 June 1984 at Orgreave in South Yorkshire, a mass picket of over 5,000 striking miners, trying to prevent the movement of coal lorries into the coking plant there, was met by a very large force (4,000 to 8,000, depending on your source) of riot police.
		Still, the day before yesterday, this battle was re-enacted by men from 12 historical re-enactment societies, together with local volunteers, many of whom were involved in the original conflict, in a field not far from the original showdown, and then along the village streets.
		The MC stresses much that this is a show, not a real battle, that "these people are all friends", that ex-miners are here playing police, and even vice versa.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010619/ai_n14393467 (848 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| The battle of Orgreave
		The worst scenes of violence in the miners' dispute broke out at the Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham, Yorkshire, yesterday with cars being burned, stones, bricks and bottles being hurled, and policemen lashing out with truncheons.
		The battle lasted for 10 hours of horrific clashes.
		There were pitched battles inside the coking plant for the first time since picketing began, and the frustration on both sides spilled over into sickening scenes of miners being batoned and of police being attacked with bricks, slivers of glass as well as the containers of fuel.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,1795292,00.html (520 words)

	British Steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British Steel's chairman at one point was Ian MacGregor, who would become famous for his role at British Coal and the UK miners' strike (1984-1985).
		During the strike the "Battle of Orgreave" took place at British Steel's coking plant.
		This article about an industrial corporation or company is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Steel (311 words)

	CJ Stone - Author of The Trials of Arthur, Housing Benefit Hill, Last of the Hippies and Fierce Dancing
		This was the so-called Battle of Orgreave, during the year-long Miner's strike, a day when massed battalions of trained riot police were directed at the ranks of picketing Miners attempting to close down the British Steel coking plant in South Yorkshire.
		The artist has called on the services of various re-enactment societies, more used to taking part in recreated battles from the English Civil War or the Roman invasion of Britain, than to play-acting an event in living memory.
		Police tactics on that day were exactly those used by the Romans, and revised again and again on the battlefields of history.
	www.cjstone.co.uk /pgs/bi08.htm (860 words)

	The Battle of Orgreave - Movie Info - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Battle of Orgreave, as the events of that day were quickly dubbed,...
		The Battle of Orgreave - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New...
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	movies.aol.com /movie/the-battle-of-orgreave/1289379/main (132 words)

	Reviews - The English Civil War Part II
		On June 17, 2001, artist Jeremy Deller staged a partial reenactment of that event, collaborating with members of historical re-enactment societies from all over Britain and with local people from mining communities in South Yorkshire.
		In the next section of the book, Howard Giles, who was involved in the precise orchestration of the re-enactment, gives a moment by moment analysis of the battle strategy employed in the original Battle of Orgreave on the 18th of June, 1984.
		The final part of the book deals with the Orgreave re-enactment.
	www.minersadvice.co.uk /reviews_english_civil_war.htm (1507 words)

	artforum.com
		On June 18, 1984, at the height of Thatcherism, the quiet South Yorkshire village of Orgreave was the scene of a particularly violent confrontation in a long and painful miners’ strike.
		This summer, Deller (and producer Artangel) assembled a group of amateur reenactors and restaged the pitched battle between police and picketers, complete with cavalry charges, flying missiles, howling ambulances, and bloodied faces.
		As political performance–cum–living history painting, Deller’s Battle of Orgreave constituted a new kind of artistic hybrid.
	www.artforum.com /static.php?section=issues/200112/features (1191 words)

	The Battle of Orgreave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Battle of Orgreave refought, 17 June 2001
		Described as "eerily convincing" by The Independent Newspaper, this non-political recreation of the worst clash of the 1984 Miners' strike - a violent pitched battle between thousands of miners and police - took place in two parts, adjacent to and then actually on the original ground around and through the village of Orgreave, South Yorkshire.
		In two parts, the re-enactment first recreated the initial clashes outside the coke plant (now the site of a huge open cast mine) or a nearby field and then, on the actual ground, the police advance into the heart of the village culminating in a full-scale battle and mounted police charge.
	www.histrenact.co.uk /histrenact/societies/wwii/articles/orgreave.htm (626 words)

	ARTANGEL-FILM&TV
		The Battle of Orgreave is an Artangel Media and Channel 4 co-commission.
		The Battle of Orgreave was premiered as part of The 45th Regus London Film Festival on 19th of November 2001 at the Odeon West End.
		Festival deputy director, Sandra Hebron said of the film "We are proud to present the World Premiere of this exciting new work which combines the considerable talents of filmmaker Mike Figgis and artist Jeremy Deller, to remind us of a significant – and shameful – episode in our recent history."
	www.artangel.org.uk /pages/film_tv1.htm (99 words)

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