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How the story of modern Scotland is the story of Scottish coal

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Scotland’s coalfields once sprawled across the central belt, from Ayrshire and Lanarkshire on the west coast to Fife and the Lothians on the east. In 1947, 77,000 people worked in Scottish coal. By 1990, that number had slumped to just 6,000. Popular history dictates that the UK coal industry was rapidly wound down during the latter part of the 20th century by Conservative politicians hostile to organized labour. But as Ewan Gibbs explains in ‘Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland’, the reality is more complicated.
Competition from cheaper fuels and the emergence of nuclear power pushed British coal into decline soon after the Second World War. In the 1950s and ‘60s, governments and mining unions negotiated the closure of nationalised pits and collieries. In the 1970s, there was a sharp uptick in industrial action. In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher abandoned the consensual strategy of previous deca ....

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The Calton Weavers, the 1820 Radical War and Scotland's first working-class martyrs

The Calton Weavers, the 1820 Radical War andÂ Scotland s first working-class martyrs
Dr Ewan Gibbs discusses how weavers spearheaded a revolutionary struggle for change beginning in 18th century Scotland â and the stories of the people who died for the cause.
Weavers were a highly skilled and educated section of the working class in Scotland (Image: Hulton Archive)
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