In June 1983, a young freelance journalist, fresh out of graduate school, landed an assignment covering the Phelps Dodge ...

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

Then the miners strike began, a dispute which devastated communities across the UK. Sian James Sian James, who was portrayed in the 2014 film Pride, was one of many women who joined miners' strike ...

Dave Roper says going on strike in 1984 was a last resort Forty years on, a former coal miner on the front line in the 1984-85 miners' strike reveals the painful choice he had to make when he lost ...

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Manic Street Preachers songwriter Nicky Wire has recalled how the 1984 miners’ strike helped shape the band's global hits. His brother, Patrick Jones, went on to forge a successful career as a ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 June 1983, a young freelance journalist, fresh out of graduate school, landed an assignment covering the Phelps Dodge ...

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 ...