The miners' strike of 1984-85, a year-long civil war ... Baddesley, Birch Coppice, Daw Mill, Littleton, Lea Hall and others have all shut their doors, reducing a once thriving industry that ...
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 ...
In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across the UK into industrial chaos and social upheaval. It contributed to a shift in the political landscape and, according to Billy Bragg ...
Tomorrow, Tuesday November 25, the Marx Memorial Library continues its series of discussions on the lessons of the miners’ strike with John Sheppard, a striking Armthorpe miner Last week Seumas Milne, ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa—With hundreds of miners trapped below ground without food or water, two men from down the road volunteered to venture where no police, government officials or ...
Sabelo Mnguni, a spokesman for the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group (MACUA), said a mobile phone sent to the surface with some of the rescued miners on Friday had videos showing ...
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - At least 400 illegal miners remained trapped underground in South Africa two months after a police raid, a group working on behalf of the miners said on Monday ...
Chicago Blackhawks players Craig Smith and Taylor Hall shared special moments with their families before New Year’s Eve. On Tuesday, they posed with their little ones on the ice. Taylor Hall ...