Peter France introduces, from Blackpool, the pick of Timewatch films. Robert Owen is widely regarded as a leader of the labour movement. David Drew finds that it might be more accurate to view him as the precursor of scientific management. The Rise of the Victorian Town hall
The abolition of the metropolitan authorities is not a new Tory policy;
Mark Jones traces a similar attempt to restrain local government power in 1898. The Tories and the Working Class
More than 50 per cent of the union members represented at the TUC Conference this week will have voted
Conservative. Far from being an aberration, this can be seen as the fruition of Tory policy since Disraeli. Roy Foster reports. Director TONY TYLEY
Producer MARGARET WINDHAM