This article seems a bit evasive and doesn’t engage with complexities or variations in coalfield politics. It’s about Nottinghamshire, but the extent of strikebreaking in 1984 isn’t engaged with, nor is North Nottingham constituency going Tory in 1983. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/28/if-anyone-had-said-our-mining-town-would-go-tory-id-have-thought-they-were-mad
'If anyone had said our mining town would go Tory, I'd have thought they were mad'

Many former miners moved into the public sector after the pits closed. A year after the collapse of the ‘red wall’, Alison Benjamin revisited Nottinghamshire

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/28/if-anyone-had-said-our-mining-town-would-go-tory-id-have-thought-they-were-mad
The interviews are from the minority of striking miners in Nottinghamshire, which is a valuable perspective but also presents a very particular form of politics that didn’t correspond to the coalfield as a whole given the vast majority of Nottingham miners opposed the strike.
My other criticism is a bit of a broken record, but we do need more engagement with the fact that Scotland’s former coalfields all voted Remain in 2016. Sometimes the ‘rustbelt’ argument can feel a bit teleological but deindustrialization doesn’t have to strengthen the right.
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