Scotland: The Promised Land

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Scotland: The Promised Land: Episode 1: The Birth of Modern Scotland

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The Birth of Modern Scotland

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Episode 1: The Birth of Modern Scotland

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A look at the social and political changes that gave birth to modern-day Scotland.

Documentary series examining the social and political changes that gave birth to modern-day Scotland.

The decade after the Great War would have a profound social and political impact on modern Scotland. Returning troops and exhausted industrial workers were promised a land fit for heroes, but instead found widespread poverty and political discontent.

The first of this three-part series examines the turbulent political situation that was emerging in Scotland, and the new era of class politics that was to materialise.

A BBC TV channel for Scotland which will broadcast every evening and will show drama, factual, comedy and news programmes made in Scotland


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Factual: Politics

Series exploring Scotland's social and political changes in the years following WWI.

Three-part series exploring Scotland's social and political changes in the years following World War One

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