A striking miner wearing a toy police helmet faces policemen at Gascoigne Wood drift mine near Selby, North Yorkshire, during the 1984 miners' strike The words coal mines and the eastern counties ...

A new documentary about the Battle ... on the outskirts of Rotherham on 18 June 1984 in a pivotal moment in the year-long miners' strike. The men faced charges of riot and unlawful assembly ...

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has claimed that a fear of being scapegoated by Arthur Scargill if miners lost their heroic 1984-85 strike was behind his startling inaction during the walkout. Mr ...

THE 30TH anniversary of the 1984-5 miners’ strike has produced a wide variety of retrospectives, from the sober reflections of the 2014 documentary Still the Enemy Within to Stephen Beresford’s upbeat ...

First shown in 2004: This documentary looks at 1984, when government plans to close 20 coalmines led to the miners' strike. Key figures recount the events of the time.

In 1984, thousands of workers in the area's mines were in their ninth month of the bitter Miners' Strike in a desperate bid to prevent the closure of pits across the country. The National Union of ...