Margaret Thatcher was a British politician who, alongside Ronald Reagan, helped usher in the era of neoliberalism.

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday that it will hold a public inquiry into the “Battle of Orgreave,” a violent confrontation between police and striking coal miners that became ...

The British government has announced a public inquiry into the 1984 "Battle of Orgreave," a violent clash between police and striking miners.

Miners Lost But Thatcher Eventually Defeated Ultimately, the miners’ strike was defeated after a year. The national Trade Union Confederation refused to take action, and solidarity strikes in other ...

The resulting strike touched all corners of the country, including St Helens which had three collieries at the time. When the dust settled a year later, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government ...

The key players were Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill and the miners he led on strike, or instead broke away in Britain’s last large-scale industrial battle.

How did the strike begin? The immediate cause was the announcement in March 1984 by the National Coal Board (NCB) that 20 pits would be closing, at the cost of 20,000 jobs. After coming to power ...

An easy way to commemorate the strike is to depict it as a clash between plucky, principled miners and the mighty British state, led by Margaret Thatcher. Curators at the National Coal Mining ...

As miners’ families were starved into submission, Margaret Thatcher became one of the most hated figures in post-war Scotland, but union leader Arthur Scargill was also despised by many ...