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 ...
Miners convicted during the year-long strike in the 1980s are to be pardoned by the Scottish government. It is believed about 1,400 miners were arrested and more than 500 were convicted during the ...
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, ...
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Funded by John Paul Getty (£120,000) and the industrialist Hector Laing (£100,000), the working miners sued the NUM and a ...
The inside story of Polmaise Colliery and the miners who were the first to walk out and the last to go back to work during the miners' strike. Show more Forty years after the miners’ strike ...
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 ...
A new bill to pardon miners convicted of offences relating to the strike action in the 1980s has been published by the Scottish government. Justice Secretary Keith Brown said the legislation would ...
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