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

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 ...

“Miners’ Houses, Glace Bay,” a painting by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris, will be exhibited at the Eltuek Arts Centre ...

Ebertfest continued with a screening of “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a documentary about the strike of coal miners in Kentucky.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Unstoppable force meets no-longer-immovable object. Soaring gold prices typically bypass miners of the ...

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".

A SPECIAL stained-glass window created to mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike has been unveiled in Kincardine.