But 40 years ago, hundreds of policemen from the East of England played their part in one of the defining coal mining events in British history; the 1984 miners' strike. Willie Smith/BBC Arthur ...

A letter to Black Flag on the "The Miners and The Left" article in Black Flag no. 114. (vol. 7, no.6C) 1984. Includes a reply from the author. If it is true that a little experience is worth a lot of ...

Former coal-mining areas are falling further behind the rest of Britain decades on from pit closures, a charity has warned. Forty years after the 1984 miners' strike, the Coalfields Regeneration ...

Heritage Doncaster is working with a team of land artists who are creating three very special art installations around ...

one of the most active and militant NUM branches in the whole British coalfield. Like others in the Doncaster coal field, Armthorpe miners were already on strike on March 5 1984 when Yorkshire NUM ...

The source of energy that made the Industrial Revolution possible has been abandoned by the UK earlier than expected, making ...

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 ...

In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across the UK into industrial chaos and social upheaval. It contributed to a shift in the political landscape and, according to Billy Bragg ...

"I won the Brit Awards and I was living in a miner's house." Manic Street Preachers songwriter Nicky Wire has recalled how the 1984 miners’ strike helped ... winning best British group at ...

To achieve a ‘just transition’ from oil and gas to renewables, the UK government must learn from what happened with coal.