Channel 4 looks at how the effects of the Miners’ Strike are still being felt today - Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy I was a child during the Miners’ Strike, and found it confusing. On the news were ...

The government has announced it is launching a statutory inquiry into the violent policing at Orgreave during the infamous miner’s strike of 1984. Dubbed the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ by historians, the ...

For the fortieth anniversary of the 1984-85 miners’ strike, Britain’s leading serious broadcasters have both produced television documentaries. And both the BBC’s Miners’ Strike: A Frontline Story and ...

How did the strike begin? The immediate cause was the announcement in March 1984 by the National Coal Board (NCB) that 20 pits would be closing, at the cost of 20,000 jobs. After coming to power in ...

LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - Britain said on Monday it would hold an inquiry into the "Battle of Orgreave", a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners in 1984 at the height of a ...

The danum Gallery, Library and Museum in Doncaster feels the need to explain something to visitors to one of its exhibitions. “A trade union”, a screen in the gallery informs them, “is an organisation ...

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became a ...

When Mike Jackson and 26 of his gay friends from London walked into a remote Welsh miner’s club, they were met with stoney cold silence. ‘The whole crowd stopped talking – then one person started ...

GRIMETHORPE (Reuters) - In an old-fashioned social club near what was once one of Britain's richest coal seams, former miners played cards and toasted the death of their hated old foe, Margaret ...