Birthday: 1938-01-11
Place of Birth: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography: Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist. He was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002. Joining the NUM at the age of nineteen in 1957, he became one of its leading activists in the late 1960s.
Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town....
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Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend...
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Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."...
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Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."...
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