It’s the summer of 1984 and members of the British mineworkers union are on a strike that will last almost a year, during which their benefits will be cut by the anti-union Thatcher government ...

But the power plant played a critical role helping the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher ... of coal during the strike. To put that in perspective non-striking miners produced ...

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

But the power plant played a critical role helping the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher break ... CEGB operations during the strike ("Crisis management in the power industry: an inside ...

The Great Miners' Strike was a major event of union history in Britain. The hated Margaret Thatcher had been Tory ... of view of the miners themselves. During the strike, small pit villages ...

Margaret Thatcher ... miners. Jones writes: With the benefit of hindsight, and subsequent evidence of a vindictive pit closure programme which continued during the decade which followed the strike ...

In Yorkshire, the mere mention of Baroness Thatcher's name is often likely to lead quickly to talk of the 1984-5 miners' strike ... the defining events of the era - not least in Yorkshire where ...

We have learned a great deal about the strike in the 30 years since – that the government planned to declare a state of emergency and call in the army, for instance, or that Thatcher revealed to ...

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

It guided Chile after Augusto Pinochet’s CIA-backed coup in 1973; Britain after Margaret Thatcher’s election ... threat of a general strike). The government wanted revenge, in particular, for the ...