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 ...

MacGregor was the architect of slashing jobs at British Steel, culminating in the defeat of the three-month steel strike in 1980. The 1982 Aslef strike and the 1983 miners’ strikes were dress ...

When British miners went on strike it was natural for women miners in the U.S. to reach out to offer support; this was especially true because many U.S. miners were fighting the A.T. Massey ...

When the 1984 miners’ strike came about ... looks at the tradition of political activism in British South Asian communities. From his research, he said miners had memories of such solidarity.

Photographs from the Miners’ Strike draws on press and documentary images taken from the foundation’s own collection, as well as the work of other prominent British photographers, to explore the ...

Labour is considering handing retired miners another £2.3bn, the Prime Minister has confirmed.

In 1984, thousands of workers in the area's mines were in their ninth month of the bitter Miners' Strike in a desperate bid to prevent the closure of pits across the country. The National Union of ...

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 ...

For at least a year, British Briefing was funded by Rupert ... the recognition he deserved for his role in breaking the ...