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“... At the end​ of April, the fuel trading company Petroineos quietly announced that more than a century of oil refining at Grangemouth had ended. The manner of the refinery closure, which had been announced in November 2023, confirmed how peripheral the plant and its workforce were to the international petroleum business. Scotland remains a significant oil producer, but has no refining capacity ...”

“... Halfway​ between the end of the Second World War and the present, the 1984-85 miners’ strike marks a dividing line in Britain’s recent history. Before the strike, the country was characterised by comparative egalitarianism, the (relative) power and legitimacy of organised labour, and an industrial economy in which state industries played a prominent role ...”

“... deindustrialisation should begin much earlier, and we shouldn’t think of it as a single process. Ewan Gibbs and Jim Phillips, in their studies of Scottish miners and the decline of coal, and Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson, in their comparative account of the coalfields of South Wales and County Durham, describe the particular fate of the coal industry, which ...”