"We needed to be together and support each other because in this area, the majority of the miners were working," recalls ...
Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners' strike came to an end when thousands of men came off the picket lines and ...
In the first of four extracts from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staff HILARY CAVE recalls challenging police ...
Amanda McKay's family were told by police to leave their home during the strike [BBC] The daughter of a mining union official has spoken for the first time about how her family faced kidnap threats ...
Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...
HISTORY was made 40 years ago when the tumultuous, year-long miners’ strike - where thousands of workers downed to... Local ...
New edition of a book first produced in the aftermath of the strike looks back 40 years to consider the dispute and its ...
A community came together to mark the anniversary of a huge miners' strike in the Rhondda. Pupils from Maerdy Community Primary School were joined by other schools, members of the community as well as ...
Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners' strike came to an end when thousands of men came off the picket lines and returned to work. More than 140,000 workers had walked out in March 1984 in ...
His father, Rufus, was a miner at Betws colliery in the Amman valley. "Without a doubt, the miners' strike is the crucible moment of my life," said Price. "I was out in the streets of Ammanford ...
The daughter of a mining union official has spoken for the first time about how her family faced kidnap threats during the 1984 miners' strike. Amanda McKay's father, Ted McKay, represented miners ...