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The Miners’ Strike 1984-5: When Government Made War Upon the People, With Hilary Cave

Star Wars Episode V: the Empire Strikes Back

Strike A Chord Battle Of The Bands

Nadia On...The Strikes

In her regular column, Nottingham East MP Nadia Whittome discusses the strikes and why she's getting involved...

40 Years Later: The Empire Strikes Back

It has been four decades since the most iconic Star Wars movie came out in cinemas across the world. George White takes a look at why it remains so popular all these years later...

Norma Gregory on the Hidden History of Black Miners and Her New Exhibiton

Nottingham has plenty of things to be proud of. Our roots being one of them; history is so deeply embedded in many of the things that we all love about this city. But the narrative isn’t fully complete. Historian Norma Gregory has spent the past few years unearthing the untold stories of several black coal miners who lived and worked in the UK. We spoke to her about her new exhibition, Digging Deep: Coal Miners of African Carribean Heritage which features photos, audio recordings and oral histories that have previously been left unheard…

Strike Site: Exhibition Curator Sacha Craddock Talks Unreality and Insistent Physicality

Strike Site is an exhibition which attempts to create the contradictory yet palpable sense of the temporary that comes with an exhibition of arts. Now in it's second manifestation, after being previously exhibited at Pi Artworks London, curator Sacha Craddock worked closely with the Nottingham Refugee Forum to explore notions of displacement, movement, freedom and barriers...

Art Review: Strike Site at Backlit

Strike Site brings together a number of artworks created in response to the current refugee crisis. Spanning several rooms of former factory Backlit, the pieces evoke contrasting feelings of stubborn presence and fleeting transportability. Seeking refuge from the snow, we followed curator and Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries Sacha Craddock on a tour around the exhibition...

Gary Clarke's Coal - Miners' Strikes and Contemporary Dance

"When you're watching the dancers you know they're dancing, but actually what's being communicated is hard graft"

Look Back in Anger: The Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years On

A corrupt lying government, mass unemployment, a rigged energy market, police brutality and a country in the throes of civil war. Sound familiar? Harry Paterson takes us back to 1984 and unpacks the myths of the Miners’ Strike.

Public sector strikes

City centre protest - in pictures

The Miners Arms