Miners who took part ... In the years after the strike, all of Durham and Northumberland's pits closed – with Ellington becoming the last of north-east England's deep coal mines to shut in ...

Amanda McKay's father, Ted McKay, represented miners who continued ... Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and was the leader of Plaid Cymru for five years. "The strike placed within me ...

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 ... Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, and ...

Ronnie Peterson said he still did not speak to those who broke the strike Miners who took part in one ... with Ellington becoming the last of north-east England's deep coal mines to shut in ...

were Yorkshire miners killed on picket lines during the 1984-5 miners’ strike against pit closures. Guest speaker Grahame Morris, MP for Easington in the North East, said that in 1984 the National ...

A sold-out crowd will celebrate the solidarity shown between Oxford residents and miners ... and Strike Map, will take place on Saturday, March 1, at Florence Park Community Centre in east Oxford ...

A hard-hitting new musical show about the miners' strike is to be performed to mark its 30th anniversary. We're Not Going Back was written by Boff Whalley, guitarist for now-disbanded radical band ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

NORTH Ayrshire Family History ... at the history of the rows of miners' cottages in Dalry and the people who lived there. The old Carsehead and Peesweep rows - the 'Dalry Raws' as they were known - ...