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 ...

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 ...

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 ... the National Union of Mineworkers and Margaret Thatcher's government. The 1984-1985 strike - one of the biggest and bitterest ...

The Miners' Strike had started some weeks earlier. In fact, the country was deeply divided under a polarising Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher. In the vandalism and the spray ...

A Maguiresbridge trade union activist has published a book on the Miner’s Strike to ensure that “working class history is not hidden”. The author of Class War On Workers: The Great Miners’ Strike And ...

West End director David Thacker has dived into the complexities and stigmas surrounding domestic abuse in a new work created ...