Professor Jim Phillips of the University of Glasgow will consider the Before & After Coal exhibition to explore the meaning and relevance of the miners’ strike 40 years on.

Tuesday 4 June, 12.45-1.30pm. National and livestreamed via YouTube. Free but ticketed.

In 1982 Milton Rogovin photographed Scottish miners, their families and communities. His images capture the world that was defended unsuccessfully two years later, in the 1984-85 strike against pit closures. Rogovin’s works are currently exhibited alongside new photographs by Nicky Bird in Before and After Coal at the Portrait Gallery. Jim Phillips, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, and author of Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century, uses this current exhibition to explore the meaning and relevance of the strike forty years on.