Dr William Ashworth will appear in the third episode of BBC4’s Canals: The Making of a Nation on Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 8.00 pm.
Dr Ashworth discusses the link between canals, the development of the stockmarket and investment in infrastructure in the late eighteenth century, which he compares to Margaret Thatcher’s vision of a share-holding democracy in the 1980s.
This episode was first screened on BBC1 in London and the South East on Friday, 28 August. Watch on i-player at Canals: The Making of a Nation (whilst link is still active).