A History of Scotland - S02E04 - This Land is Our Land - Part 1/6

[rougekiller100]

I belong to a scottish clan so SCOTLAND ALL THE WAY!!!

[TheRobertsontartan]

VOTE FOR SCOTLAND IF YOU A TRUE SCOTS.

[evilscotsmin]

@TheRobertsontartan 4 years till we vote ...sure they said 2016 ...4 years worth of oil is am thinking thats about

[davidcrae]

Neil makes me feel all warm & Fuzzy! I want him to read me scottish tales til i sleep....Don't tell my wife and kids!!!

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

This the Scots are haunted by the curse of Presbyterianism: Robert the Bruce did drive the English before him out of Scotland like sheep, but now the Scots cannot even drive out the English sheep; no Scottish government would have allowed the destruction of its political and military backbone like the Clan system to satisfy base economic greed.

[ironmansfire]

i love the scottish accent i wish i had it

[segano1]

@ironmansfire You'll never have it, as your not native to Scotland, your Yanke accent is part of your heritage as a Yankee.

[papovitch1]

@segano1 fuck you Nazi pig! death to america! Hail the union of estern christianity and scotland!

[pteJames]

A Thompson!

[sw0rd0fadvers1ty]

9:06 - You see him just slip it into his pocket.

[aolser10]

send me pls video in full i love it

[Bule1976]

@aolser10 You can just get it on Amazon. Both on DVD and on Bluray. Search for "A history of Scotland". It's definitely worth the buy. Just finished the watching it.

[aolser10]

very nice

we are from ukraine and russia and want to see like this

we love scotland so much they are so nice people

please prevent them from freaking asians and chinse and arabs they can spoil such nice country 

[beverage2008]

amazing to watch! thanks very much :) & 1 person is english ahah

[PereNise10]

I love the history of this land and the people. There is soo much to learn

[enigma1865]

The same conditions of capital industrialization that racked Scotland also created great social stresses in the US as well - especially those from folk or traditional backgrounds. The U.S. created public memories (heritage) too after the American Civil War. Some based on history some not. The "holy relics" of Scottish heritage have a similar emotional strength to relics of various periods of American heritage.

[scotsexile1]

This is pretty awful stuff, typical dumbed down history presented by a BBC drone. I gave up after 3 minutes of cliche-ridden tedium.

[mcRioRemedy]

@scotsexile1 what dya expect from the bbc mate

[ddarko2012]

@scotsexile1 I wanted to see if Alan Watt was accurate when saying that the Scottish Highlanders were driving out not by the excepted reason, but because the Highlanders were a thorn in the Crown's side. They were fiercely independent and had to go so they shipped them off in old rickety boats where many drowned. I'm giving up at the :33 mark. I figured their would be a better reason than sheep, but its like the Potato famine in Ireland. The poor people were starving due to Crown policies!!!

[1982CFD]

Walter Scott seems like a bit of a jumped up prick.

[1982CFD]

That music's doing my head in.

[HaakuuGoneWild]

Demon sheep.

[ThaBarbarian82]

The Highland Clearances - a time when the love of family & kin was replaced with the love of profit.

[NormbrettaMod]

Scotland was invaded by sheep?

[MrNoahDeer]

no the new zealanders

[NormbrettaMod]

Ah. I see...

[tj4234]

@NormbrettaMod basically. It's one of the reasons that the Highlands are sparsely populated now.

[piratebri]

@NormbrettaMod BY SHEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luckyde1]

1:40 kickass intro

[acerb45666555]

2- the Lairds used the Tacksmen to muscle out the crofters. but, justice being poetic, the Tacksmen themselves were booted out! imagine the reception a Tacksman got when he arrived at Selkirks Red River settlement in Manitoba!! i bet they beat the crap out of him!

[acerb45666555]

why didnt the Lairds see that the Humblees=crofters, could have raised these sheep themselves and stayed on the land! there was lots of grazing land, no one had to be cleared out.

[ikkoikki]

@acerb45666555 Highland crofting was labour intensive and all available arable land was exploited for sufficiency crops of oats and root vegetables. Cattle provided meat and dairy. Labour intensive but not well-endowed with profits. Sheep by comparison required a small permanent labour force but vast areas for pasture. The wee Jimmies and Morags were an obstacle in the eyes of the precursor to industrial-agriculture.