A History of Scotland - S02E04 - This Land is Our Land - Part 2/6

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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• BBC
• Scotland
• Documentary
• History
• Highland
• Clearances
• Sir
• Walter
• Scott

[Camouflage16]

whats the song called at 7:45

[jamgilp]

@Camouflage16 - That'll be "Scots Wha Hae" - by Robert Burns.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

[The Britons were of course the previous inhabitants of the once British Isles but then the Angles and Saxons invaded the Roman province and brutally did drive out the inhabitants, who fled in terror to Gaul and remained in some remote areas like Wales, while the Saxons settled their former lands and became known to the world as the English ducks]

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@GPOPization: No chance, English bed-wetting type. I burst my pimples at you and call your request a silly thing, you tiny-brained wiper of other people's bottoms! Yes, depart a lot at this time, and cut the approaching any more or we fire arrows at the tops of your head and make castanets out of your testicles already! Ha ha! And now, remain gone, illegitimate-faced bugger-folk! And, if you think you got a nasty taunting this time, you ain't heard nothing yet, dappy English!

[GPOPization]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar Please don't lecture on history when you don't even know the difference between English and British.

[TheThreeWeavers]

I know it sounds silly but I still feel bitter about the clearances. I always have done since I was a little girl visiting my relatives in Sutherland. The moors still make me so sad. All of the empty houses, abanonded villages. The children would make dens out of abandoned houses. My great grandmothers is still barren and useless. You see, the clearances never stopped. People just kept leaving. I feel most sorry for those abroad with our ancestry. I'm sorry they could not be here and be apart.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

Dear me! France or Napoleon was defeated in Russia and at Leipzig and there not a single English soldier did fight! The only appearance the English made in that war was in Spain and there they could only hold out due to the fierce irregular war of the Spaniards; and Napoleon was defeated at Belle-Alliance by the Prussian field marshal Bluecher; and when he said in jest to Wellington that after the French vanguard was driven back Napoleon will now assault with the main force, Wellington swooned.

[cleanhomer]

03:05 "Odd!" LOL!

[May420pm]

i have always wanted to know more about my great grandfather jimmy mudge a scottish whaler from the 1900`s who went to northern arctic canada

[justaman6972]

@belmontsmild i was refering to the SOCTUS case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins US 118.356.370 but God handles all the sillyness anyway. Peace.

[belmontsmild]

@justaman6972 Look up, "emperor of America" -- they still celebrate Emperor Norton in San Francisco .

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[justaman6972]

let me get this straight,to be king I only need a crown, a septre and sword? Sweet I'm in. So let it be written,so let it be done. I'm now king !!! Without subject of course,a sovereign as it were...