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.

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.

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

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

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

Commons Speaker John Bercow is to consider reviewing government statements made during the 1984/85 miners' strike to test whether they match up with revelations made in newly released records ...

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 ...

But Thatcher acknowledged his role by hosting a private dinner attended by the working miners to thank them for their contribution. And Hart could not resist drawing attention to his relationship ...

Yet Mr Scargill—whose obduracy and militancy led his miners to crushing defeat—also haunts Mexborough. Backing for the strike is frequently tempered with anxiety that it will do no good.