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 ...

In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across the UK into industrial chaos and social upheaval. It contributed to a shift in the political landscape and, according to Billy Bragg ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dispute between the miners' union and Margaret Thatcher's government divides the nation and leads to mass protests outside collieries and pitched battles between miners and the police.