The miners’ strike changed Britain, but it didn’t feel like it at the time
Rachel Cooke
Channel 4’s The Battle for Britain brings back memories of Sheffield in 1984, when we thought Arthur Scargill would be a neighbour
August 2023
Almost 40 years on, the miners’ strike still casts a long shadow over UK politics today
John Harris
The pit closures seem a distant memory to many, but they have had a huge impact on our very social fabric, says Guardian columnist John Harris
June 2022
Notebook
Philip Larkin’s profound and beautiful poetry sent me back to the classroom
Rachel Cooke
‘Is that who I think it is?’ Arthur Scargill joins rail picket line in Sheffield
April 2022
Learning Latin with Arthur Scargill et al
Letters: Novel ways of learning Latin are remembered by Dr Fiona Thompson, Deborah Lace and Dr Richard Towers
February 2022
Unions don’t call the shots any more – but we’d all be better off if they did
Larry Elliott
Britain is not ‘going back to the 1970s’. Organised labour is far too cowed for that, says Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor
September 2019
Thomas Cook costs and Quaker ethics
Letters: Liz Byrne says the Quaker approach to business could have helped avert the crisis, Marie Sansford wants to know why the government is not prepared to bail out the company, while Arthur Scargill thinks nationalisation is the solution
November 2017
Maxine Peake’s play Queens of the Coal Age to get stage premiere
True story of four women who occupied Lancashire colliery in 1993 set for run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange
August 2017
Labour’s new soft Brexit policy could create electoral problems
Letters: It matters much less what the Labour party policy is on our transition out of the EU, than what their policy is on the shape of the final destination
January 2017
Desert Island Discs: 75 defining moments from 75 years of castaways
The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic
May 2016
Orgreave and the pickets of Saltley
Former chief constable calls for public inquiry into Orgreave clashes and beyond
April 2016
Greenslade
Where the newspapers stand on the junior doctors' strike
Roy Greenslade
‘Cowardly’ Jeremy Hunt, says the strike-supporting Daily Mirror. Doctors are squandering the public’s trust, says the government-supporting Times.
June 2015
Bill Sirs obituary
Moderate leader of the steelworkers’ union, he led his members out on strike in 1980
April 2015
Lord Mason of Barnsley obituary
Labour MP and minister determined to take on the IRA by force during his time as Northern Ireland secretary in the 1970s
July 2014
Greenslade
Frank Thorne retires - who would ever have imagined that possible?
Award-winning reporter decides to hang up his notebook
June 2014
Norman Willis obituary
Leader of the TUC during one of the most traumatic periods in trade union history
March 2014
Lee Hall: Spielberg, Scargill and me
On the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike, Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall talks to Simon Hattenstone about Thatcher's death, being fired from War Horse – and finding the lead for his Elton John musical
February 2014
In search of Arthur Scargill: 30 years after the miners' strike
As the anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike approaches, its figurehead Arthur Scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current NUM leadership. John Harris went in search of Yorkshire's living legend … and found him
January 2014
Awaiting an apology for Arthur Scargill
Letters: I welcome confirmation that Arthur Scargill's 1984 analysis of the government's plans for the mining industry have been vindicated
