The miners' strike 1984-85
TV review
Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain review – the sadness and resentment still simmer‘The officer could have smashed her skull’: the 1984 miners’ strike in pictures
Other lives
Robert Priddle obituaryOther lives: Senior civil servant who finished his career as managing director of the International Energy Agency
Almost 40 years on, the miners’ strike still casts a long shadow over UK politics today
John HarrisBook of the day
Backbone of the Nation by Robert Gildea review – the final throes of industrial Britain
Tyrone O’Sullivan obituary
Miners’ leader who saved the colliery where he worked from closure by engineering a buyout
‘It was intended to make people angry again’: Jeremy Deller on restaging the Battle of Orgreave
In extracts from his new book, the Turner prize-winning artist reflects on three of his best known works
The right says strikes are abusive and wicked. I say they have helped build our society
Owen JonesDon’t believe Rishi Sunak or other Tory union-busters, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Top 10s
Top 10 dissenting life storiesUK facing huge scale of unrest last seen in 1980s miners’ strike
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photographyFrom the ballet in Odesa to a shark attack survivor, the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in July 2022
Credits are due for inspirational protest photographs
Letters: Jon Harvey and Tim Alden respond to a feature that brought together some of the best images of direct action ever taken
‘It was refreshing to see what Sherwood did’: how the BBC’s acclaimed miners’ strike drama went down in the real pit villages
In the Nottingham streets where the serial is set, the struggle now is to control the narrative of a fiercely contested history
I wrote Sherwood as a warning. When communities are divided, the pain endures
James GrahamSherwood: episode by episode
Sherwood recap: episode four – have we found our Keats?
Sir James Anderton obituary
‘God’s copper’, who felt answerable to a higher authority than the Home Office during his time as chief constable of Greater Manchester
Other lives
Michael McColgan obituaryOther lives: Former academic who retrained as a solicitor and worked for families affected by the Hillsborough disaster
In the darkness and dust: memorial recalls the hard history of British mining
The monument will celebrate the courageous contribution of a once-essential group of workers to our industrial heritage
‘It’s offensive’: Wakefield residents on PM’s pit closures joke
Boris Johnson’s comments come as ex-miners fight to save their ‘raided’ pension fund
Brief letters
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