The miners class this issue as “cooperation ... for settling the strike is best put in his own words: “When a coal strike develops, many champions of the people with political hopes start ...

Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.

I’d like to tell y’all a story. A story of the South. Not of the plantations, the Civil War, or the Southern aristocracy polity oppressing the underclass. It’s a story ...

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty A miner after a shift on the coal face at a south Wales colliery, 1983. Image: Roger ...

Tomorrow John Sheppard will speak about how the miners organised and his personal experiences as an activist during the strike at Armthorpe, one of the most active and militant NUM branches in the ...

LONDON (AP) — Scottish industrialist Sir Ian MacGregor, who helped crush a year-long coal miners’ strike and break the power of Britain’s unions in the mid-1980s, has died. He was 85. The former ...

On this day in 2024, the Telegraph and Argus reported on an exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield to mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike.

The 1984-1985 strike - one of the biggest and bitterest ... and form. "If it wasn't for coal mining in this area at this specific time, Kent wouldn't be what it is now." ...

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in ...

Barnsley museums have worked in partnership with the National Coal Mining Museum, to share local people’s objects and artefacts relating to the strike and the impact on the community.