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British Social History

1981

1 season

5 episodes

A new series of five programmes that looks at important topics from our history 1760-1851.

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Keith Chegwin

A new series of five programmes that looks at important topics from our history 1760-1851.

Ep 1
1.Richard Arkwright and the First Factories
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The first in a new series of five programmes that looks at important topics from our history 1760-1851. Today's programme examines the earliest powered cotton mill set in a leafy D...
Ep 2
2.The Poor Weaver
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The historical drama for schools takes a closer look at Glasgow in 1834, when the city filled with Highlanders, Lowlanders and Irish people, all looking for work.
Ep 3
3.Shame
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A new play about the Workhouse Act of 1834. An old cottage is the home of Cathy's aunt and uncle. It may be cosy and comfortable now, but once it witnessed terrible things - which...
Ep 4
4.Man Made the Slave
08-11-198120m
Set in the Midlands in 1840, this edition tells the story of Thomas Cooper, a leading member of protest movement the Leicester Chartists.
5.The Railways
22-11-198120m
Railways - 'A device for making the world smaller'. Keith Chegwin visits the Liverpool to Manchester line and looks at ways in which the railways changed the 19th century.

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