Scotland The Promised Land

Season 1

2016 · 3 episodes · 3h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. The Birth of Modern Scotland

   23 Mar 2016 · 60 min

   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.

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   2. Homes for Highland Heroes

   30 Mar 2016 · 60 min

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

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   3. The Cultural Revolution

   6 Apr 2016 · 60 min

   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.