Multiple Somerset County towns can never be separated from coal, the reason for their existence. But the people are the ...

Anne Scargill, the former wife of the trade unionist who led the 1984-85 miners' strike, has died. A key activist and ...

About three-quarters of the country's 187,000 miners went on strike, but in Nottinghamshire, only around a quarter joined the action out of 30,000 people. The Notts Women Against Pit Closures ...

Somerset County coal miners began a 16-month strike on April 14, 1922, for better working conditions and union recognition. Miners and their families faced evictions, harsh living conditions and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Veterans from the epic 1984-5 miners’ strike in Lancashire gathered to mark the occasion at an exhibition of photographs and memorabilia and rally with speakers from the former coalfield and ...

Sue Piotrowski (left) and Sally Higgins, said they had no choice but to step up when the miners' strike began in 1984 "We needed to be together and support each other because in this area ...

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Born Anne Harper, Ms Scargill was married from 1961 until 2001 to Arthur Scargill, the trade unionist who led the 1984-85 miners' strike - and she said that dispute was her "political awakening".