A hard-hitting new musical show about the miners' strike is to be performed to mark its 30th anniversary. We're Not Going Back was written by Boff Whalley, guitarist for now-disbanded radical band ...
THE former Yorkshire area vice president of the National Union of Mineworkers and a man who played a pivotal role during...
and it being the 25th anniversary of the miners' strike I really wanted to do something to memorialise that event. "There's a generation out there that needs to be reminded of those ideals [of ...
The struggle in the coalfields during the strike and the tens of thousands of ordinary miners who stayed out for a whole year are an inspiration to those who have come after them and the exhibition is ...
and it being the 25th anniversary of the miners' strike I really wanted to do something to memorialise that event. "There's a generation out there that needs to be reminded of those ideals [of ...
To him, the striking miners ranked alongside the Levellers ... we shared a platform at the major rallies marking the 40th Anniversary of the Strike of 1984/1985.” As a trustee of the Mineworkers ...
“Ken was one of the finest trade unionists of his generation, an NUM stalwart who put himself on the front line during the ...
The project was based at UCL and the University of Reading. Our project partner was the National Coal Mining Museum for England. The year-long miners' strike of 1984-5 is one of the most well-known ...
Ken Capstick, who has died aged 84 while visiting his son in Bulgaria, was one of Arthur Scargill’s key lieutenants during ...
A group of dozens of ex-miners who have met up for 50 years in ... from both mines joined the event on Saturday. To mark the anniversary, a number of commemorative mementos were commissioned ...