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

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New Historical Perspectives is a book series for early career scholars within the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Books in the series are overseen by an expert editorial board to ensure the highest standards of peer-reviewed scholarship. Commissioning and editing is undertaken by the Royal Historical Society, and the series is published under the imprint of the Institute of Historical Research by the University of London Press.

The series is supported by the Economic History Society and the Past and Present Society.

Series co-editors: Heather Shore (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Founding co-editors: Simon Newman (University of Glasgow) and Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester)

New Historical Perspectives Editorial Board

Charlotte Alston, Northumbria University

David Andress, University of Portsmouth

Philip Carter, Institute of Historical Research, University of London

Ian Forrest, University of Oxford

Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics

Tim Harper, University of Cambridge

Guy Rowlands, University of St Andrews

Alec Ryrie, Durham University

Richard Toye, University of Exeter

Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester

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