A striking miner wearing a toy police helmet faces policemen at Gascoigne Wood drift mine near Selby, North Yorkshire, during the 1984 miners' strike The words coal mines and the eastern counties ...

Only a small band of miners in the ... believed he was the only one to strike in Leicestershire. Suspicion lingered in north-west Leicestershire throughout 1984 and 1985 as strikers from Kent ...

Cortonwood is a name forever etched in history after the proposed closure of the colliery prompted a walkout which eventually led to the 1984 miners' strike. However, all that remains of the South ...

Cabinet papers released under the 30-year rule vindicate the NUM leadership’s analysis at the time. The 1984-5 miners’ strike was engineered by a Tory government that saw the NUM as the backbone of ...

How did the strike begin ... Between 6 March 1984 and 3 March 1985, some 140,000 out of Britain's 187,000 working coal miners walked out. Although the coal industry was in rapid decline in ...

A giant sculpture has been installed on the site of a former colliery to honour a town's mining heritage. The 16ft (5m) high ...

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 ...

Miners from Easington have appeared and told their stories in a new Netflix documentary entitled Strike: An Uncivil War.

Miners strike 1984: the beginning of a struggle that decided the future of many North East communities. The miners strike saw Margaret Thatcher and the Tory government lock horns with NUM ...

The recent revelations about the secret tactics and aims of the government during the 1984 miners' strike came as no surprise to people, like me, who were personally involved at the time. Since ...

One of those impacted by their visit to the UK was Mikhailo Volynets ... just like we didn't in 1984," said Vasyl.

Manic Street Preachers songwriter Nicky Wire has recalled how the 1984 miners’ strike helped shape the ... as mines were starting to close across the UK, the Manics recorded their first album ...