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 ...

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.

Littlebrook power station, which towers grimly over the lower Thames near Dartford in Kent, ceases operations today after almost 35 years, the last of Britain’s big oil-fired power plants to close.

The 1980s, in some parts of Britain, did feel like a civil war. It was one that the Thatcher government had to win, and victory ended decades of national decline.

News Politics Conservative Party Public backs pardons for miners convicted during 1980s strike battle against Margaret Thatcher's Government An independent review has already backed pardons and a ...

Margaret Thatcher was so scared of losing her battle with striking miners she secretly plotted to send in 4,500 troops to crush them, ­official records reveal today.

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 ...

THE miners' strike was the most divisive social and political fracture in post-war Britain - and the longest national stoppage in UK history.

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’ strike.