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.

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 came within days of declaring a state of emergency and calling out the military just four months into the miners' strike, Cabinet papers released on Friday show.

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

Veteran Labour left winger Dennis Skinner said the publications, made in recent days under the 30 year rule, showed ministers in the Thatcher government had been "untrue" in their statements made ...

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

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 ...

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