In the Newport area, Simon Phillips and his colleagues put on over 200 shows during the course of the strike, in aid of the ...

"Some people did feel the pressure, as the strike went on, to go back to work early" she said. PA Media The exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum aims to reflect what was happening in all ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running ...

In October 1925, the Pottsville Free Public Library was turned into an art gallery with an exhibit dedicated to life in the ...

A coal miners’ strike was having an impact on all aspects of lives back in 1972. In South Shields, a 77-year-old woman sat in ...

Coal mining was the life blood of Wales... until it wasn't. Don't miss this poignant documentary capturing the stories of the Miners' Strike 40 years on.

THE former Yorkshire area vice president of the National Union of Mineworkers and a man who played a pivotal role during...

The designs feature a Doncaster Miner (Keith Allsopp), symbols from coal mining heritage and the strike which, the memory of, ...

Here, James and others protest in 1984. (Photo courtesy of James.) In 1984, coal miners around the world felt under attack. Both in the U.S. and Great Britain, they went on strike under the watchful ...

Described as a ‘hard-hitting musical comedy set in the 1984/85 miners strike that follows the fortunes ... of impending pit closures, the coal miners’ unions anxiously prepare for the imminent ...

When strike organizers in the early 1900s decided to protest the conditions in the coal camps, the strikes had a significant impact on the lives of women. Striking miners and their families were ...