Scotland: The Promised Land

Scotland: The Promised Land

The Birth of Modern Scotland (1x1)


: 24, 2016

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.

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  • BBC Two