'I'm back on the picket line, 40 years after the miners' strike'

Since August, staff at the National Coal Mining Museum have been striking in a row over pay. Many of them are ex-miners, who ...

How mining banners helped shape communities past and present

Since 1871, the Durham Miners' Gala has seen the streets of a city in north-east England transformed with displays of mining ...
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UK will hold inquiry into violent Orgeave clash between police and miners during bitter 1984 strike

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 a ...

Pit-folk and Peers: 'I've spent my career researching coal mining communities, now I've written about my hometown pit village of Fryston'

David Waddington has spent years researching the mining industry and coal communities. Now he’s written a history of the pit ...

From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country

The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been ...