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 mining industry was hit badly by the 1984 strike On the coal board side it was not its recently appointed chairman Sir Ian MacGregor but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who ... Over 9,000 miners ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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