Season 1
5 episodes · Sep 20, 1981
A new series of five programmes that looks at important topics from our history 1760-1851.
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- S1E1
Richard Arkwright and the First Factories
Sep 20, 198120mThe 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 Derbyshire valley.
- S1E2
The Poor Weaver
Oct 4, 198120mThe 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.
- S1E3
Shame
Oct 19, 198120mA 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 have left their mark.
- S1E4
Man Made the Slave
Nov 8, 198120mSet in the Midlands in 1840, this edition tells the story of Thomas Cooper, a leading member of protest movement the Leicester Chartists.
S1E5The Railways
Nov 22, 198120mRailways - '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.