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 greatest achievement during this parliament was in resisting the year-long national 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Thatcher’s unsung hero who broke the miners’ strike – but always stayed in the shadows A new Channel 4 documentary looks at the life of David Hart, friend and advisor to Margaret Thatcher ...

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 ...

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

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 ...