A warm spell mitigated some of the effects of the strike but colder weather would have taken their own toll ...

Danum Gallery, Library and Museum has recently acquired an amazing new artwork by acclaimed photographer Hannah Starkey.

The final Barnsley rally, with Graham as keynote speaker, represented the very forces responsible for the betrayal of 1984-85 ...

Up to two million ­workers in Britain began nine days of strikes 100 years ago this week. The General Strike of 1926 wasn’t ...

The General Strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G.D.H.Cole.

On the centenary of the General Strike, historians examine the causes of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern British ...

"It is my favourite time of year to work. It is a fantastic time of year to work and I have been robbed of that this year," says Alan Woodcock, a former miner and now a tour guide at the National Coal ...

EVERY second shop in Newgate Street, the main street in Bishop Auckland, shuttered up and the shopkeeper ruined,” wrote the ...

Were a general strike to occur 100 years on it would look very different, but it would need to share the spirit of 1926 for ...