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Scotland The Promised Land

  • 2016
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season

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

Latest: Season 1 · 2016

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  1. E1. The Birth of Modern Scotland

    Mar 23, 2016 · 60m

    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.

  2. E2. Homes for Highland Heroes

    Mar 30, 2016 · 60m

    The second film in this series examines the grave problems facing Scotland's Highlands and Islands in the turbulent decade after the Great War.

  3. E3. The Cultural Revolution

    Apr 6, 2016 · 60m

    In the wake of the Great War, two visions of Scotland emerged - a nationalist cultural resurgence led by a band of writers, and a popular revival that appealed to the masses.