Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners' strike came to an end when thousands of men came off the picket lines and ...

The 1984-5 miners’ strike was engineered by a Tory government that saw ... to ensure it would not be defeated by the miners a third time. In February 1981, Margaret Thatcher’s government ducked ...

Exactly 40 years ago today, coal miners in Kent marched back to work. They were among the last to hold out during an industrial dispute between the National Union of Mineworkers and Margaret ...

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Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners' strike came to an end when ... March 1984 in protest over the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher's plans to shut 20 pits. It ended 12 months ...

Photographs from the Miners’ Strike draws on press and documentary images taken ... “The works tell a story of the battle against Margaret Thatcher and the National Coal Board’s pit closures, but what ...

In the first of four extracts from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staff HILARY CAVE recalls challenging police ...

"Without a doubt, the miners' strike is the crucible moment of my life," said ... "They saw us, people from south Wales, almost like royalty because we were fighting [Margaret] Thatcher and we were ...

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said MacGregor “brought a breath of ... In March 1984, shortly after becoming chairman of the National Coal Board, miners began a strike after contract talks ...

“The miners united will never be defeated,” was the chant of Arthur Scargill’s striking colliers 40 years ago. The year-long 1984-85 coal strike was arguably th ...

The story of how Margaret Thatcher defeated the miners in 1984 and changed the face of Britain forever. Including how the miners' struggled and the hardship they ...