Not the Kind of Victory I Wanted...

"I know there's a lot of optimistic people saying we haven't lost, this is just the beginning of the next struggle {...} but if we haven’t lost it's not the kind of victory I wanted..."

WAPC activist - Trisha Sutcliffe, circa 1984/85...

Not the Kind of Victory I Wanted, takes its title from a monologue from Trisha Sutcliffe, which featured in a play: The Garden of England. 42 years on, Not The Kind Of Victory I Wanted, re-examines the 1984/85 Miner’s Strike and the wider decline of the coal industry in the UK, focusing on the women who stood alongside their men to keep their pits open and communities thriving. Drawing on oral histories, archival material and women’s testimony presented word-for-word, it centres women’s lived experience and the 1984/85 intergenerational impact through a mix of voices...