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

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 ...

Anne Scargill, the activist and campaigner who co-founded the national Women Against Pit Closures movement amid mass ...

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 ...

Anne Scargill, who founded the Women Against Pit Closures group when her husband Arthur was leading the Miners Strike of the 1980s. The actor Maxine Peake pays tribute. Ronnie Appleton who was Chief ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...