Kemi Badenoch said Margaret Thatcher made an “error” in not ... with the key flashpoint being the year-long miners’ strike in 1984. In that year alone, 20 pits were closed and 20,000 jobs ...

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 ...

Miners at Goldthorpe Colliery in Barnsley ... walked out in March 1984 in protest over the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher's plans to shut 20 pits. It ended 12 months later in a decisive ...

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

"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 ...

MARGARET THATCHER personally met the leaders of the scab Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM) at least three times in the years following the miners’ strike. Classified Downing Street files, which ...

Women who battled through the bitter year-long Miners’ Strike in Doncaster ... will hear moving tales of the battle between Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government and Arthur Scargill ...

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 ...