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.

ON September 26, 1984, Margaret Thatcher made a surprise visit to York. She was almost half way through her premiership – and her visit to the city also came roughly half-way through the miners ...

Margaret Thatcher described "the miners" as "basically reasonable people" and doubted whether they would "follow" National Union of Mineworkers' leader Arthur Scargill "in trying to have a row ...

Littlebrook is an unlikely symbol of modern Britain. But the power plant played a critical role helping the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher break the miners' strike of 1984/85.

Newly released government papers reveal how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher secretly met the wives of working miners during the strike of 1984-85.

Miners' strike: 'Untrue' statements by Margaret Thatcher's government could be reviewed 30 years on Mr Skinner said recent publications showed ministers in the Thatcher government had been "untrue ...

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 planned to exploit the miners' strike by using the bitter dispute to launch her fiercest attack on the Labour party, it is revealed today. The divisive former Prime Minister had ...

LONDON: Margaret Thatcher came close to declaring emergency in 1984 in the wake of the miners' strike in Britain and considered passing a new law giving extra powers to soldiers, according to ...

Margaret Thatcher had regular updates on coal stocks and the dispute's progress. Margaret Thatcher secretly met the wives of working miners during the strike of 1984-85, newly released government ...

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