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How the mining of Welsh steam coal made the country's reputation.

Huw Edwards examines how the mining of Welsh steam coal made the country's reputation, attracting thousands of workers in the boom times. Then the Depression came.

Huw Edwards presents this major television history of Wales, showing our country in ways it's never been seen before. 

It's boom time as Wales becomes known the world over for one particular product - Welsh steam coal, the best you can get. In the space of 50 years, 'black gold' builds a new Wales. The coalfield pulls in hundreds of thousands of migrants with a different language and culture, becoming a bustling modern world of its own. Yet no sooner has Wales found itself at the centre of global trade, than the Depression causes an industrial crash with a bitter social fallout.

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Huw Edwards presents a major television history of Wales.

Huw Edwards presents a major television history of Wales, showing the country in ways it has never been seen before.

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