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  • The sight of the hunt charging through an estate - named the "Orgreave" after the scene of a clash in the miners 'strike - is unforgettable.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Contemporary British artist Jeremy Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004 for his film "The Battle of Orgreave," a re-enactment of the 1984 confrontation between striking miners and police in north England.

    What's On Around Europe Thorsten Gritschke 2012

  • (I can almost hear the marketing meeting: "I know it sounds counterintuitive but awareness of mining as a career hasn't been at this level since Orgreave!")

    What is it about the English and their obsession with ghosts? David Mitchell 2010

  • Scargill's strategy and tactics in leading the strike – he was arrested at one stage during the notorious "battle" of Orgreave where an army of pickets confronted mounted police – were widely, if quietly, questioned by others in the union and in the wider labour movement both at the time and subsequently.

    Arthur Scargill and allies 'expelled' from miner's union 2010

  • By collecting memorabilia and sometimes even staging events himself, Stokes echoes re-enactments like Jeremy Deller's Battle of Orgreave or Forsythe and Pollard's gigs by tribute bands.

    Artist of the week 114: Matt Stokes Skye Sherwin 2010

  • My English friends finally got the message when the Beeb broadcast the sequence of events at Orgreave backwards.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Bob Piper has tagged an excellent Guardian letter pointing out that there was scarcely a murmur, still less an apology or an enquiry when the BBC chopped out a line of police getting bricked by miners ahead of miners and wives getting charged and battered by mounted constables, or per chance cavalry officers, at Orgreave.

    Archive 2007-07-22 2007

  • It's a bit like a Conservative Minister going to Orgreave during the Miners strike, I would have thought.

    Tipping a Winner 2005

  • The battle of Orgreave was the 'picture' of the Strike which had the most dramatic impact and I believe is most vividly remembered today. '

    Orgreave 2006

  • I wrote the Orgreave song about 20 years ago - well after the event itself.

    Orgreave 2006

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