In the Newport area, Simon Phillips and his colleagues put on over 200 shows during the course of the strike, in aid of the ...

Excited miners celebrated finding a rich vein of gold at a mining pit in Myanmar. Footage shows the workers shovelling dirt ...

"My boyfriend worked at Cwm Coking works during the miners' strike. We were about to get married in the October and decided to go ahead with it anyhow, but obviously had to cut down on some things - ...

In consequence of the proposed reduction of wages, the miners employed at the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company's Works, held a meeting at Cooperation Hall, Hyde Park, yesterday afternoon.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped ...

Described as a ‘hard-hitting musical comedy set in the 1984/85 miners strike that follows the fortunes of three sisters determined to set up their own branch of Women Against Closures’, We ...

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, ...

The first national miners’ strike since the General Strike of 1926 was called in January 1972 in support of a 25 per cent pay claim – 7.4 per cent had been offered. Strikers shut down each of ...

COALTON, Ohio, Dec. 1.--All the miners in this, the Seventh District, 2,500 to 3,000, came out this morning on a refusal by the operators to grant an increase of 5 cents per ton for mining.

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 ...

Miners strike 1984: the beginning of a struggle that decided the future of many North East communities. The miners strike saw Margaret Thatcher and the Tory government lock horns with NUM ...