The Art of Class War: Newspaper Cartoonists and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike

A new book sheds light on political cartoons from the bitter miners’ strike of the mid-1980s and includes around 130 cartoons. It is written by Nicholas Jones, who was the BBC’s industrial and senior political correspondent for over 20 years and has authored many books on UK politics and industrial relations. The miners’ strike was one of the most monumental stories of his long career, and Jones kept an impressive archive of newspaper cuttings, magazines, and BBC scripts related to the strike, all of which contained a large number of daily cartoons from the print media; he has since donated this collection to Sheffield University.