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The Birth of Modern 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.

59 minutes

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Tuesday22:00

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Credits

RoleContributor
NarratorKen Stott
Executive ProducerRachel Bell
DirectorColin Murray
ProducerColin Murray

Broadcasts

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Dundee: the beginning of me and modern Scotland

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How did emigration transform the Highlands?

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