About this season
Three-part series exploring Scotland's social and political changes in the years following World War One
Episodes (3)
1. The Birth of Modern Scotland
Aired 23 March 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.
2. Homes for Highland Heroes
Aired 30 March 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.
3. The Cultural Revolution
Aired 6 April 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.