Fig 1: Part of a ‘No Return to Spencerism’ flyer – January 1985. 

Nottingham Area NUM threatened expulsion from NUM 

Following the Nottingham Area NUM repealing Rule 30 in its Area rule book in December 1984, arrangements were made for the expulsion of it from the National NUM in January 1985. The planned Special Delegates Conference was planned and postponed and eventually no action was taken by the National Union. 

Fig 2: Circular from the a meeting of the National NUM NEC on 10th January 1985 recommending the expulsion of the Nottingham Area from the National Union. Source – David Amos collection. 

Fig 3: Letter from Hopkins Solicitors to Nottingham Area NUM, dated 11th January 1985, regarding the NUM NEC circular from the previous day. Source – David Amos collection 

Fig 4: The Notts Scapegoats – article from the Revolutionary Communist Paper paper, January 1985. Source – David Amos collection. 

Fig 5: Crunch Time for a Union Torn Apart – Nottingham Evening Post, 14th January 1985. 

Fig 6: No Return to Spencerism form brought by Roger Windsor to a Nottingham Area NUM union school at Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire, in mid January 1985. Source – David Amos collection.

Fig 7: Nottingham Area NUM letter to branches, 23rd January 1985, regarding the No Return to Spencerism form distributed at the previous weeks Nottingham Area NUM union school at Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire. Source – David Amos collection. 

Fig 8: Nottingham Area NUM union school at Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire, in January 1985. Photo Credit – David Amos collection. 

Fig 9: Nottingham Area NUM flyer regarding the proposed expulsion from the National Union – January 1985. 

Fig 10: Keep Notts National correspondence – February 1985. Source – David Amos collection

Fig 11: Outcome of the planned expulsion of the Nottingham Area NUM from the National Union. Source – The Nottinghamshire Miner No.3, April 1985. David Amos collection.