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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dispute between the miners' union and Margaret Thatcher's government divides the nation and leads to mass protests outside collieries and pitched battles between miners and the police.

CLASSIFIED Downing Street files on Margaret Thatcher’s meetings with the Union of Democratic ... and his colleague George Hunter “for all they had done during the miners’ strike, not just for their ...

FORTY years on Hilary Cave offers her recollections of the 1984 miners ... of Thatcher’s law, the increasingly intrusive use of every lever of state power to defeat the NUM and weaken the entire trade ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to download the Adobe Flash player. The dispute ...

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 ...