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

Lessons have been learned from the chaos of January’s Storm Éowyn, which cut off power to tens of thousands and brought trees and ...

Unison Scotland said it was the first time in more than a decade that staff in the charitable sector had voted for strike action.

KENNESAW, Ga. — The UTEP men's basketball team started slow against Kennesaw State and never truly got back into the game, as the Miners fell 83-73 to start their two-game road trip on a two ...

A team of archaeologists began excavating a plot of land at a distillery in South Ayrshire in 2020 because of the “potential for hitherto unknown archaeology to be buried at the site ...

On this day in 2024, the Telegraph and Argus reported on an exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum, in Wakefield, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike. The exhibition ...

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 ...

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 ...