HALIFAX - During Nova Scotia's storied 300-year history of coal mining, one deadly riot in 1925 proved to be pivotal for ...

Going through them, she found they had all been taken around 1984, in the depths of the Miners’ Strike and the Thatcher Years – and the year her mum turned 18. Picture after picture shows Gill’s mum, ...

Join PHM’s expert Archive Team and delve into the the museum’s Miners’ Strike collections, including: Hilary Wainwright papers, containing material from Women Against Pit Closures ...

Soon after the miners' strike began in 1984, Ms Scargill began to organise with women in her community, catering for people at the local welfare hall, travelling to cities like York to fundraise ...

Juliana Heron who was part of a support group which ran a kitchen during the 1984 Miners Strike. | se Her husband Bob Heron was doing his bit on the picket line. Speaking about Springsteen ...

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".

“During lockdown I started interviewing people, talking to miners about their experiences during the strike some who had been arrested on the picket line. But I also talked to young people proud of ...

but in some ways the real heroes were Second Division East Fife who managed to get to Hampden in the aftermath of the General Strike and the Miners’ Strike of last year which devastated all ...

As the culmination of a show about working class experience in a former mining town decimated by the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike, it is a finale that speaks volumes about everything that went before.

She was right.. It may have caused a little pain for some, but it had to happen." The year-long miners' strike in 1984-5 was an attempt to stop Thatcher from closing coal mines across Britain. The ...