She called them "the enemy within" and the 1984-85 miners' strike was the most divisive confrontation of Margaret Thatcher's 11 years in power.

She called them "the enemy within" and the 1984-85 miners' strike was the most divisive confrontation of Margaret Thatcher's 11 years in power. It was a vicious, violent industrial dispute that ...

Margaret Thatcher dies: Personal memories of the miners' strike in the North East Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died today, had a massive effect on the North East's mining industry.

South Shields playwright Ed Waugh co-wrote Maggie’s End, a look at New Labour. In 1984-5 he was a political researcher and has vivid memories of the miners’ strikes across the North East.

Miners Strike: Margaret Thatcher's Triumph The year-long dispute changed the face of Britain and confirmed Margaret Thatcher's status as a hate figure for the left.

Margaret Thatcher’s greatest achievement during this parliament was in resisting the year-long national miners’ strike.

News UK News Miners’ Strike Margaret Thatcher's vindictiveness is still with us 30 years after the end of the miners' strike Labour hero Dennis Skinner tells the Mirror Online why the end of the ...

Newly-released government papers reveal how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher secretly met the wives of working miners during the strike of 1983/84.

News UK News Margaret Thatcher Just like Margaret Thatcher, miners' wives were not for turning - how women joined fight When miners started being arrested on demos during 1984, their wives joined ...

MPs have accepted a motion which said Margaret Thatcher’s government “misled the public” about pit closure plans during the 1984 miners’ strike. The motion, tabled by the Labour Party for ...

Home History the explainer Why the miners' strike was so important It is 40 years since most of Britain's coalminers went on strike, in the most bitter and divisive industrial dispute in recent ...