For the fortieth anniversary of the 1984-85 miners’ strike, Britain’s leading ... allowances and pension entitlements during their period working at the European Union. Both were ennobled ...

The miners' strike of 1984-85 was a defining ... The miners' eventual defeat was the end of an era for Britain's trade union movement and helped cement Mrs Thatcher's reputation as the Iron ...

March 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the miners ... during the 1990s for them to gain zero seats in Wales in 1997. Nonetheless, the strike, and the febrile atmosphere of the ...

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the start of the miners’ strike this March, an exhibition in Bristol is looking at the vital role photographs played during the year-long struggle ...

The legendary American musician has finally spoken about his kind-hearted gesture at the height of the violent strike in the ...

He sought to force a defeat on the Thatcher ... ex-miners attended the annual memorial lecture for David Jones and Joe Green, two miners who were killed during the 1984/85 strike.

It was a very, very insecure period so when ... the poor manner in which miners have been treated since the closure of their collieries. He added: "During the strike, Thatcher coined the phrase ...

In the 1980s, while President Ronald Reagan’s administration was breaking a strike of 11,000 air traffic controllers and ...

“we are always shown as Maggie Thatcher’s boot boys.” Even the children of striking miners speak of their confusion and regret. One, who was 15 during the strike, remembers feeling ashamed ...

Britain’s climate 'leadership' is based on the profoundly unjust and violent transition that was the defeat of the 1980s miners' strike ... to the Thatcher government’s assault on coal. Britain became ...

Anne Scargill, the former wife of the trade unionist who led the 1984-85 miners' strike, has died. A key activist and campaigner during the ... shutdowns by Margaret Thatcher's government in ...

Miners and police clash during ... Thatcher and her Conservative government, which supported plans to shut 20 coal pits. About three-quarters of the country's 187,000 miners went on strike to ...