All news on the topic: Miners’ Strike

Forget history lessons about kings and generals, this is the stuff our children should never forget

Former mineworker Steve Tulley told the Mirror about his experiences during the Miners' Strike forty years on - and has reflected on whether the era-defining industrial action was 'worth it'

Four decades after Britain's miners came above ground to fight plans to shut down their pits, a new survey found former pit towns are still falling far behind the rest of the UK because of lack of investment

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

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

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

National Union of Mineworkers officers Keith Brookes and Martin Harvey were tasked by boss Arthur ­Scargill with filming pickets, including the Battle of Orgreave

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

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

Britain’s class system, supposedly abolished by John Major, is alive and kicking, says Paul Routledge, as can be seen with Rishi Sunak's snooty attempt to diversify dishing out honours