In the Newport area, Simon Phillips and his colleagues put on over 200 shows during the course of the strike, in aid of the ...

In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across ... The benefit shows that happened across South Wales, not just in Newport, saw hundreds of artists and bands support the cause, putting ...

Three ex-miners from the same valley in South Wales, but with very different experiences of the strike.

The struggle in the coalfields during the strike and the 10,000s of ordinary miners who stayed out for a whole year are an ...

Mr Jones, who was on the National Union of Miners committee, was arrested by PC Chinn on one of the most tumultuous days of the strike in south Wales. Sign up to Wales Matters newsletter here for ...

Twenty-five years ago, the benefit shows that happened across South Wales saw hundreds of artists and bands step up and support the miners' cause ... the course of the strike in '84-'85.

Sitting behind Kath Morgan that day was Ian Isaac, an NUM South Wales Area Executive ... Coal and Community in Wales: Images of the Miners’ Strike, before, during and after by Richard Williams ...

The South Wales Striking Miners’ choir and rugby team both had their origins in our support ... This extract was taken from p109-118 of History on our Side: Wales and the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike by ...

Coal mining was the life blood of Wales... until it wasn't. Don't miss this poignant documentary capturing the stories of the Miners' Strike 40 years on.

When British miners went on strike it was natural for women miners in the U.S. to reach out to offer support; this was especially true because many U.S. miners were fighting the A.T. Massey ...