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Gavin Hawkton

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Media & Memory Researcher | Investigating how journalism shapes public memory and power

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Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63·
20 years ago, in the “vegetarian days“ of the rising Putin dictatorship, I would try to explain to western media & leaders how elections could be free but not fair. Media domination, through propaganda and exclusion of opposition, is one element.
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv

Long unofficially banned from appearing on state TV, incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appears on a channel to which he was previously not allowed only to announce an end of "North Korean" style Orban media monopoly.

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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
@AlexPanton1 @Miners_Strike What you've highlighted is how Yorkshire miners intially crossed into Nottinghamshire to picket. A decision made by miners, rather than the NUM leadership or Scargill. Miners themselves directed the course of the strike. The ongoing focus on Scargill is misdirection.
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Miners Strike@Miners_Strike·
“If the miners are picked off one by one, everybody else will go down the chute. Solidarity is essential.” Tony Benn gives his political support to the #MinersStrike #OnThisDay 1984.
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
@AlexPanton1 @Miners_Strike Sure. It was complicated with different responses from different areas of the union and from different miners within those areas. That's why summing up the strike with one man doesn't work.
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Alex Panton@AlexPanton1·
@GavinHawkton @Miners_Strike And at a lot of grassroots levels miners wanted nothing to do with it. The reaction to that was to throw bricks at them.
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
@AlexPanton1 @Miners_Strike I'd challenge the frame. The strike was not about one man. It was run at a grassroots level with Scargill as a figurehead. That perspective is prominent at a local and community level and contrasts with popular/ media memory of the strike that remains dominant.
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Alex Panton
Alex Panton@AlexPanton1·
@GavinHawkton @Miners_Strike If you were honest you'd admit that Scargill was a narcissist who ruined thousands of lives fighting an unwinnable war. You don't need a PHD to see that.
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
@AlexPanton1 @Miners_Strike If it costs more to close than keep open they're not 'uneconomic'. Academic economists also found NCB figures to be highly suspect and inflated the cost of producing coal. Nothing to do with Scargill.
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
@AlexPanton1 @Miners_Strike It cost far more to close a pit than keep open in 1984. They were closed for political, not economic reasons. The NUM was resisting this process that was forced upon them. Your history is all wrong.
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Alex Panton@AlexPanton1·
@GavinHawkton @Miners_Strike They were going to close anyway as technology and global competition had made them obsolete. The NUM had made it political as well and forced a battle that they couldn't possibly win.
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Alex Panton@AlexPanton1·
@Miners_Strike He had been part of a government that had closed more mines than Thatcher ever did.
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
@A_D_PHIL @Miners_Strike The strike was an industrial action in response to pit closures at a time of mass unemployment. Scargill was a figurehead of a federal union which was led by miners at a grassroots level. He did not take a salary throughout. There's lots of books to read up on the strike.
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A_D_PHIL@A_D_PHIL·
@Miners_Strike A false flag operation by Scargill to manufacture the political strike he yearned for. He then put miners and their families through 12 months of hell (while he was still handsomely paid) just to satisfy his ego. A truly disgusting man.
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Miners Strike@Miners_Strike·
#OnThisDay 1984. Yorkshire’s 56,000 miners are called out on strike in protest of the closures of Cortonwood Colliery and Bullcliffe Wood pit.
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Miners Strike
Miners Strike@Miners_Strike·
The Arthur Scargill archive at the @sheffielduni is now open. The collection is an essential resource for the study of the British labour movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. sheffield.ac.uk/library/news/a…
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
Delighted to say I passed my PhD viva today at the @UofGlasgow 🎉 Thanks to @ewangibbs and @ta_mills for being my examiners. I owe a huge debt to Jim Phillips and @dominichinde for thier supervision throughout. An end of an era!
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
Local reporters expressed a more nuonced understanding of a grassroots and community movement that opposed mass pit closures at a time of high unemployment (of which Scargill was a figurehead). The ongoing tension between national and local movement of the strike is interesting.
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
Interestingly a collective memory of the strike is quite common among national media reporters in my research where Scargill as a caricature features prominently. Based in Fleet Street, a London-centric view of the strike focused on high profile individuals to understand events
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Gavin Hawkton@GavinHawkton·
Scargill as pantomime villain is a telling piece of media memory. It diverts from the grassroots reality of a strike rooted in pit communities, and obscures the extent to which the government had already structured, planned, and managed the strike on its own terms.
Andrew Neil@afneil

I’m afraid to tell you I regard Scargill as the villain. His attempt to use the power of the miners to bring down a government (again) was never going to work because this time the government was ready for them. But the treating of the non-striking Notts miners once it was all over by the Tory government was a disgrace.

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