A powerful insight into the Miners Strike will be available to view 40 years on from the bitter dispute. The anniversary of ...

The parade will head to the old entrance to Westoe Colliery on Milner Street for 11am where the commemoration will include a speech by Durham Miners Association secretary Alan Mardghum who was a ...

It was sold to the highest bidder, a local developer, for £246,000 in 2020 - a move that Mr Gormley feels was "against the ...

Young designers are hoping Wales' mining legacy can help fashion in the country find its voice.

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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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...