
Canals: The Making of a Nation
Date de parution : 29 août 2015
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Engineering Liz McIvor tells the story of the early canal builders who struggled with the rugged terrain of England's Pennine hills. Creating a network of... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Geology Liz McIvor discovers how carving up the landscape in order to build canals helped further our understanding of the earth below. The canal builders... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Capitalism Liz McIvor tells the story of 'canal mania' - a boom period of frenzied activity that helped develop Britain's modern financial economy, now centred... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | The Workers This is the story of the men who built our canals - the navigators or 'navvies'. They represented an 'army' of hard physical men who were capable of... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | The Boat People Presenter Liz McIvor tells the story of the people who operated the canal boats, carrying fuel and goods around the country. Conditions were tough,... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Heritage Liz McIvor explores the heritage of our canal network. After years of decline in the post-war period much of the network was eventually restored.... |