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The Miners' Strike

Why the 1984 miners' strike began and how it ended

Thousands of miners were locked in a bitter dispute with Margaret Thatcher's government.

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Miners' artwork depicts demise of coal pits
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Wear
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3 May
Ex-mining areas losing out on 'quality jobs'
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Sheffield & South Yorkshire
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23 April
'The sky was black with missiles'
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England
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1 April
The British Asians who stood with striking miners
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England
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14 March
Striking miners' wives recall their struggle
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Stoke & Staffordshire
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13 March
How the miners’ strike changed the role of women
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Wales
Posted
12 March
Littleton Colliery miners strike remembered
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Stoke & Staffordshire
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12 March
More help needed now than during strike - charity
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Sheffield & South Yorkshire
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11 March
Women and girls 'had to join the miners' strike cause'
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Glasgow & West Scotland
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9 March
Miners' strike families 'used rabbits to feed the community'
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England
Posted
7 March
Miner recalls facing daily insults during strikes
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Coventry & Warwickshire
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6 March
Miners' strike PC's sympathy for mineworkers
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England
Posted
6 March
When opposing mineworkers met 40 years on
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Derby
Posted
6 March
Miners' strike at 40: 'We were robbed of our future' Video, 00:03:12
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Scotland
Posted
6 March
'We should remember where the strikes began'
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Sheffield & South Yorkshire
Posted
6 March
Miners' strike: The Telford Dozen who held out
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Shropshire
Posted
6 March
Village 'under siege' during miners' strike
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England
Posted
5 March
Miners thank Bruce Springsteen for 1985 donation
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Tyne
Posted
5 March
'No alternative' to closing pits - Lord Heseltine
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England
Posted
5 March
Drama on 4. Land of My Father. Audio, 44 minutes
Siân Owen's drama about the Miners' Strike, to coincide with the 40th anniversary.
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Miners' strike 'developed into a little war'
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England
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4 March
Miner's wife: 'We were strong and we never give in' Video, 00:02:57
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Leeds & West Yorkshire
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4 March