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 ...

The previously classified documents, released by the National Archives at Kew under the "30-year rule", go through scenarios involving a potential miners' strike.

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 ­government deliberately delayed the pit closures which caused the Miners’ Strike until after the 1983 election, ­bombshell documents reveal.

Margaret Thatcher's government deliberately delayed the pit closures which caused the Miners' Strike until after the 1983 election, bombshell documents reveal. The papers, from the archives of the ...

MARGARET Thatcher secretly considered sending in the troops during the 1984 Miners’ Strike amid fears the long-running industrial action could destroy her government, according to newly released ...

Papers released by the UK’s National Archives reveal that the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher developed detailed plans to use the army to break the year-long 1984-1985 miners ...

Margaret Thatcher secretly met the wives of working miners during the strike of 1983/84, newly-released government papers reveal.