Voices from the picket line

Born into a family where the previous five generations of men had been miners, Danny Scott , 60, was expected to follow suit. Instead, he became a writer and in his new book he paints a vivid picture of his upbringing in a Nottinghamshire mining village

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Forty years ago, football hooliganism was at its peak, causing outrage, fear and fatalities. How did the sport recover from its darkest days, and what happened to the men who belonged to the “firms”? Rosa Silverman reports

Margaret Thatcher’s administration had spent 1984 battling the miners and dismantling the coal industry. But with that fight almost won, as the clock ticked into the New Year, she had another of the U

Our pick of the latest military history books

Riots sparked by the deaths of two young boys in Cardiff two years ago put the area of Ely into the national spotlight. But afterwards, something remarkable happened as a community worked out how to r