Union with David Olusoga
National identity, social class, inequality. David Olusoga shines a light on our fractured modern society through the lens of the past, exposing the fault lines dividing the UK.
Cast:David Olusoga
S1.E1 ∙ The Making of Britain
Historian David Olusoga starts the story of Union in the 17th Century, an era of defined by deep religious divisions between Protestant and Catholic.
S1.E2 ∙ Creating Britishness
David Olusoga reveals how, in the 18th century, a new British identity was forged in the face of multiple threats from within including the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and an Irish revolution in 1798, and near-constant war with France.
S1.E3 ∙ The Two Nations
In the 19th century, the union of Great Britain and Ireland appeared to be secure and powerful.
S1.E4 ∙ Union and Disunion
The 20th century sees partition in Ireland. A sense of national unity emerges in the aftermath of the Second World War, but economic challenges in the 1970s create new divisions and questions about the union's future.
