From 1984 until 1985, a major miners' strike shook the British coal industry in response to proposed closures of uneconomic pits. It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers aga
Support the Miners March, London, 1984
Blackhall Colliery in County Durham in 1970
Margaret Thatcher in 1983
A badge produced by Kent NUM in support of the miners' strike
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime
1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike
…Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, which wanted to reduce trade union power. The NUM was divided over the action, which began in Yorkshire and Scotland, and…
Studio portrait, c. 1995–96
Thatcher in late 1975
10 Downing Street, c. 1979
2009 photograph of her father's former shop