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

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BBC Scotland Documentary - At the start of the 19th century, everything familiar was swept away. People fled from the countryside into the industrial towns of Scotland's central belt. Rural workers became factory workers - in some of the worst conditions in Europe. This new Scotland became a seedbed of revolution. But it wasn't just force that kept the Scottish people in their place, it was fantasy. Neil Oliver reveals how Sir Walter Scott created so powerful a myth, it haunts the Scots collective imagination to this day.

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

  • VOTE FOR SCOTLAND IF YOU A TRUE SCOTS.

  • @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.

  • 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!!!

  • 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.

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

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

  • i love the scottish accent i wish i had it

  • A Thompson!

  • @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!!!

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