The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in central England is finishing its final shift at midnight after more than half a century of ...
Tens of thousands of miners walked out in 1984 over plans by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government to close more than 20 coal pits. The strike lasted a year, divided ...
The militancy eventually culminated in the miners’ strike of 1984-85; a walkout that was quelled by one of coal’s enduring virtues: its ability to be stored, cheaply and conveniently in piles ...