Former miners came together in West Fife to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the 1984-85 miners' strike. The commemorative picket was organised by the West Fife Area Retired Miners Branch at ...

The erosion in workers' rights following the miners' strike has seen low-paid, insecure work become the norm for Britain's ...

On this day in 2024, the Telegraph and Argus reported on an exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield to ...

On March 3, 1985 the strike, the biggest industrial action in modern Britain, formally ended, without an agreement. National ...

Richard Leonard, the former Scottish Labour leader, said ex-miners and their families ‘deserve justice’ Fresh calls have been made for a public inquiry into the policing of the 1984/85 miners ...

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.

It has been four decades since the beginning of the 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike, which only lasted one year but made a significant impact for decades to come. The strikes were held by the National Union ...

But some of the details remain startling. As well as showing Thatcher’s personal investment in paying back strikebreaking miners for helping to end the 1984-85 strike, the documents expose how the ...

during the 1984-5 Miners' Strike. Welsh miners took a leading role in UK wide disputes during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thousands of these badges were produced during the strike ...

A museum is set to commemorate the end of the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike with a special event. Big Pit National Coal Museum will host a day of 'strike memories,' featuring talks, film, poetry, music, ...

PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85 ...