In March 1984, shortly after becoming chairman of the National Coal Board, miners began a strike after contract talks broke down. Thatcher and MacGregor remained firm, buying cheap foreign coal, and ...

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The final colliery in the area, Wearmouth, closed in 1994 as Margaret Thatcher’s long dreamed of mass pit closure and privatisation scheme gained traction under John Major. Former opponents of the ...

The story of how Margaret Thatcher defeated the miners in 1984 and changed the face of Britain forever. Including how the miners' struggled and the hardship they ...

exhibition curator Isaac Blease says that “the ephemera materials show the urgent use of images and the creativity that was deployed in support of the striking miners”. “The works tell a story of the ...

Thatcher killed this country and ... has come under fire for their comments about the Miners’ Strike. In 2021, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, when asked about climate change at a Scottish ...