Big Pit in Wales has been named the best free attraction in the UK and it's easy to see why - it's an incredible, moving and important place that tells the story of modern Britain and the people who w ...

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

It's hard to believe that 1,300 people used to work where I'm now standing, almost alone, on a mountaintop on the fringes of Bannau Brycheiniog. It's almost the exact point where the densely ...

British coal mining was a rough, tough and exceptionally dangerous occupation ... Universal Colliery in Senghenydd in 1913 were the worst in England, Scotland and Wales respectively, collectively ...

Big Pit National Coal Museum will host a day of 'strike memories ... and social history of Wales forever." Visitors will also have the opportunity to visit the Streic! 1984-1985 Strike!

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ... The bodies of five miners trapped in a flooded rat-hole coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state ...

Coal was central to ... prosperity return to the south Wales coalfield after the long, hard inter-war years. One in ten eighteen-year-olds were drafted into mines rather than the forces.

“And life is still so busy with the children (Macy, 13, Maya, nine and Jackson, six). They keep me going and give me a reason ...

“I went to school with him and he was a big-headed bone even then ... the sandstone pit village in the West Riding of Yorkshire where he was born and raised. But just as Britain’s mining communities ...

It's nine months since rugby league hero Rob Burrow died aged 41 from motor neurone disease but, like her husband, his widow Lindsey remains as positive and stoic as she can after losing the love of ...

Big Pit National Coal Museum will host a day of 'strike memories ... and social history of Wales forever." Visitors will also have the opportunity to visit the Streic! 1984-1985 Strike!

For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter The singer was born in 1974, in Cwmaman, a former coal mining village near Aberdare in South Wales ... written a big song here.” ...