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 ...

Though the strike ultimately ended in March 1985, miners returned to work with their heads held high, leaving behind a legacy ...

Gifts were unaffordable for many during the 1984 Miners' Strike - but families made the most it. A miner's safety lamp is placed on the tree to mark the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike.

A book of newspaper cartoons looking at the 1984-85 miners’ strike is set to be published. The Art of Class War is a look back at the year-long strike of 1984-85 through the images and caricatures of ...

A new "time tunnel" exhibition which tells the history of British coal mining has opened in West Yorkshire. The feature, ...

A hard-hitting new musical show about the miners' strike is to be performed to mark its 30th anniversary. We're Not Going Back was written by Boff Whalley, guitarist for now-disbanded radical band ...

To him, the striking miners ranked alongside the Levellers ... we shared a platform at the major rallies marking the 40th anniversary of the strike of 1984-85.” As a trustee of the Mineworkers ...

and it being the 25th anniversary of the miners' strike I really wanted to do something to memorialise that event. "There's a generation out there that needs to be reminded of those ideals [of ...