Billy Powell, from Ramsgate, was in his late 20s and working as a "face worker" when the strike was called to resist colliery closures across the country, announced by the National Coal Board. "We ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The impact of the miners' strike still lingers today and there remains a real danger that we will let history repeat itself. There is a common judgement that the "miners lost" and Margaret Thatcher ...

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 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 ...

Exactly 40 years ago today, coal miners in Kent marched back ... the National Union of Mineworkers and Margaret Thatcher's government. The 1984-1985 strike - one of the biggest and bitterest ...