"We needed to be together and support each other because in this area, the majority of the miners were working," recalls ...

FORTY years on from the end of the miners strike, activists in Camden have remembered how they took food, money and ...

Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners' strike came to an end when thousands of men came off the picket lines and ...

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, ...

Image: Trevor Smith / Alamy According to the Living Wage Foundation, in 2023 more than six million people in the UK were trapped in precarious forms ... Many of the former miners I spoke to attributed ...

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FTSE 100 futures are up by around 0.1%, after two days of declines for the index. The pound is a touch stronger, back above ...

This theme also features in the book Pit Props. The original French exhibition on music and the strike will be on display at Unity Works in Wakefield from February 19, along with three other ...

It’s ten years since the first With Banners Held High (WBHH) event was held in Unity Works, Wakefield, on 5 March 2015 to ...

The index tracking precious metal miners leapt 3.6%, the biggest sectoral gainer. Financial shares also lifted the FTSE 100, with the bank sector up 2.2% after dropping more than 3% on Tuesday. UK ...

The miners’ strike started in Yorkshire in early March 1984 and within days half the country’s mineworkers had walked out in protest at pit closures. Most of the UK’s 190,000 miners were ...