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.

News UK News Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher’s ­government deliberately delayed pit closures which caused Miners’ Strike The bombshell papers, from the archives of the National Coal Board ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

Documents released by the National Archives reveal that Margaret Thatcher secretly considered using the army to break the looming strike miners' strike.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...