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.