Actor Robert Lindsay on his role in Sherwood and growing up in a mining town: ‘There were terrible confrontations between fathers and sons’
The star of Citizen Smith, GBH and much more on the ‘genius’ of James Graham’s BBC drama, his unlikely way into acting, and learning to simmer down on social media
July 2024
‘It’s pure joy’: Durham Miners’ Gala, the world’s biggest celebration of working class culture
Other lives
Joan Winfield obituary
June 2024
Guardian Print Shop
Buy the classic photograph: the miner and the copper
The famous photograph by Don McPhee will be available to buy in two sizes as a limited-edition print for one week only
Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines
Former miners and police officers recall Orgreave, one of the nastiest events in postwar British history, in Daniel Gordon’s forthright documentary
Campaigners rally on Battle of Orgreave anniversary as Labour promises inquiry
Sheffield demonstration comes 40 years after notorious police action against striking miners
May 2024
‘I’ve got the Hovis ad in one ear and the Battle of Orgreave in the other’: my obsession with brass bands
Guernica-style battle of Orgreave painting stars in miners’ strikes exhibition
March 2024
We’re Not Going Back review – perfectly pitched miners’ strike musical
‘It was hard – but there was lots of laughter’: women’s stories of the miners’ strike told on tour
For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought
Mark Hollingsworth
‘People have lost faith’: life in former mining towns 40 years on from strike
Ex-miners die in poverty as government takes pension funds, say campaigners
Ronnie Campbell obituary
February 2024
Economics viewpoint
Forty years on from the miners’ strike, unions are flexing their muscles
Larry Elliott
While numbers may not have fully recovered the climate is now in very much in trade unions’ favour
‘They didn’t understand us at all’: why the miners’ strike still captivates Britain, 40 years on
Artists, writers and film-makers have long been inspired by the stories – and myths – of the 1984-5 strike. But how do those most affected by its legacy feel about the portrayals?
Tell us what it’s like to live in a UK former mining town in 2024
TV review
Miners’ Strike: A Frontline Story review – storytelling so vivid that 40 years melt away in an instant
Notebook
The miners’ strike changed Britain, but it didn’t feel like it at the time
Rachel Cooke
January 2024
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Masters of the Air; Miners’ Strike 1984; Expats; David & Jay’s Touring Toolshed – review
Heroic pilots hit and miss in Spielberg and Hanks’s costly saga; a no-frills history of the miners’ strike grips; Nicole Kidman stars in a languid Hong Kong thriller; and flat caps off to Jay Blades and David Jason