All news on the topic: Battle of Orgreave

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'Dear Kate: The only way to cancel out conspiracy culture is to tell the truth'
The Princess of Wales has apologised for releasing a badly-edited family photo, says Fleet Street Fox. But it's only caused more conspiracy theories
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Police accused of 'waiting for miners to die' as strike files remain concealed
Many picketing miners think South Yorkshire Police orchestrated the violence at the coking plant near Rotherham on June 18, 1984 and have been campaigning to have the police files made available
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Heartbreaking Miners' Strike memories from eating squirrels to sinister calls
On the 40th anniversary of the mining strikes, the strikers and those branded 'scabs' are telling their stories at the National Coal Mining Museum and revealing horrifying tales
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Inside Battle of Orgreave - savage beatings, maiming and police lies
There is fresh hope of justice for the many strikers who ended up in the bloody Battle of Orgreave during the 1984 Miners' Strike, after some have shared their stories of mental and physical suffering in a new Channel 4 series
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'I filmed cops clashing with miners at Orgreave - I can't believe no one died'
National Union of Mineworkers officers Keith Brookes and Martin Harvey were tasked by boss Arthur ­Scargill with filming pickets, including the Battle of Orgreave
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Horrific new footage of Battle of Orgreave emerges 40 years after Miners' Strike
Channel 4’s three-part series also includes miners speaking on camera for the first time after suffering physical and mental scars at the Battle of Orgreave during the 1984 Miners’ Strike
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'You're right to smell rat when Tories resist inquiry into Battle of Orgreave'
Margaret Thatcher’s truncheon-wielding army of police cracked heads and mass arrested pickets in infamous scenes outside the coking works in South Yorkshire
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Passion and pain of miners' strike laid bare nearly 40 years on - by both sides
Robert Gildea, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Oxford, spent years recording hundreds of “voices from the deep” across the former coalfields for a new book
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'Brutalised' miners hope Queen's Orgreave horror will help finally get justice
Kevin Horne, now 74, was one of 95 miners arrested at the Battle of Orgreave on June 18, 1984, the most violent clash between pickets and police during the Miners’ Strike
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'The Tories must live up to their words with an inquiry into Orgreave'
They know what really happened that day in June 1985 at the height of the year-long miners’ strike. In 2016, then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd signalled her readiness for an inquiry
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Queen hit out at 'awful' police in rare political statement on striking miners
Queen Elizabeth's reaction to the police charging into picketing miners in 1984 has been disclosed by Julian Haviland, former political editor of The Times, in a radio interview recorded this summer