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Acknowledgements
Introduction: those who walked in the darkest valleys
1. ‘Buried treasure’: industrial development in the Scottish coalfields, c. 1940s–80s
2. Moral economy: custom and social obligation during colliery closures
3. Communities: ‘it was pretty good’ in restructured locales
4. Gendered experiences
5. Generational perspectives
6. Coalfield politics and nationhood
7. Synthesis. ‘The full burden of national conscience’: class, nation and deindustrialization
Conclusion: the meaning and memory of deindustrialization
Appendix: biographies of oral history participants
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