Jonathan Francis, artistic director at Chesterfield Studios, has created The Northern Requiem which will be delivered by an ...

Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...

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

During the 18-month strike, Kingsolver listened to the town’s women – white and Hispanic – many of whom were married to the miners. An injunction threatened the strikers (the overwhelming ...

This is an unprecedented level of unity on a matter of national importance. We the small-scale miners, organised under the ...

Fresh calls have been made to erase the criminal records of thousands of former miners detained and "falsely charged" 40 ...

Approximately 200 hundred aggrieved workers affiliated with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) brought the Durban CBD to ...

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

A musical about the miners' strike of 1984/85, written by Chumbawamba's founding member Boff Whalley, will be performed in Cardigan.

Striking can be a powerful tool for workers, but it can come with risks.

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