hi uh i'm bruce fumi and this
is scotland history tours now a recent
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in the meantime let me tell you a story
scotland's story now scotland was
neither a single landmass or even at
this latitude longitude when dinosaurs
walked the earth i mean obviously
nessie has always been scottish but
apart from that
anyway we all came out of africa but
lots of folks stopped off at other
places along the way
over the centuries hunter-gatherers
farmers then celtic
people romans more celts then
anglo-saxons
vikings normans flemish
and then very recently nation states
started to become a thing
and would have we've had immigration
from england and with global travel the
asian subcontinent
hong kong chinese eastern european
countries
whilst the period in nation states
brought immigrants seeking opportunity
even more scots have left to seek
opportunities elsewhere
not realizing that the real opportunity
was for travel agents
now history shaped by geography in so
many ways the freezer of organization
i'm going to structure this based on
political changes over time
and before the romans folk organized in
tribal groups
to be fair some continued to do that for
1800 years
although names and the structure of
those tribal groups changed
certainly according to a recent
autobiography by spartacus mcdonald
you should buy it the romans had limited
success in conquering what we
call scotland but they have left traces
now hadrian's wall is in england but
there was also a wall
from the clyde across to the fourth
built by a guy called
tony when the romans left folks south of
hadrian's wall complained about pics and
scots invading
if we call the fort right up to the
antonine
tony's wall britons then north of it
there were two
distinct groups those pre-roman tribes
had coalesced in a political group
called depicts
and there was a tribe called the scots
that had come across the irish sea
now there's some academic debate as to
how different they were from the pics
and questions about
immigrant versus indigenous scots
whatever indigenous means we don't have
time for all that detail
so for the rest of the video please
you'll have to satisfy yourself with
criticizing my broad generalizations and
lack of precision
in the comment section below
in roughly 800 a.d the vikings came
and the pets and the scots joined
together to form alipa
some non-galax speakers incorrectly
called alba
stop it
for about 200 years the scots garlic
culture
dominated where lots of kings killing
one another to try and get to sit
on this stone at school and towards the
end of that period the gales of alapa
took over the area south of the fourth
clyde line
apart from galloway because they were
proper mental
they were part of the galaxy viking a
mix of the western isles and western
seaboard
the 11th to the 13th century i'm going
to call the canmore period
from the time that malcolm canmore
killed macbeth
down to the death of the last of that
dynasty alexander the third
power started to consolidate further
south and laterally
the hebadees became part of scotland
under the lord of the isles
it was also a period a cultural change
with the royal court becoming scotto
norman
alexander iii fell off his horse and
broke his neck in 1286 with no surviving
male
heirs and this crisis led to edward of
england invading
and the scottish wars of independence
you might have seen some films
william wallace robert the bruce battle
of bannockburn
flower of scotland long story short we
won
eventually but the people in charge were
still norman
it's like having your spell checker set
to uk english
but calling your school dance a prom
what's wrong with you people
well independence one then came the
stuart kings
now this is a huge period from 1371
to 1688 or 1714 depending on whether or
not you're a jacobite
welcome to them broadly speaking we had
a lot of kings called james or mary
actually mary was a queen although it's
thought that her son james
was also a queen it was james vi
becoming king of england in 1603 that
would mean a hundred years later
in the stuart dynasty scotland moved
from medieval
to renaissance during the reigns of
james the first to the fifth
broadly speaking then reformation to
presbyterianism
during the time of his daughter mary all
this time would continue to battle with
our nearest and dearest
neighbor even when the two countries
weren't officially at war
the clans either side of the border
would fight each other
steal livestock from each other and
generally
live in a state of near lawlessness and
yet
they would see the northern clans and
the highlands as barbarians
so that's right this is the big period
of clans
after mary came james vi the bisexual
shakespeare inspiring witch hunter who
hated highland clan culture
and tried to stamp it out and that
culture
originally came from the north of
ireland and james
sent lowland presbyterians to the north
of ireland to stamp
out there well and may
it was also during the arena james the
sixth that the mafler sailed to the
americas to organise a thanksgiving
dinner
he commissioned the king james bible and
the protestant religion became securely
established
in scotland now the uneasy coexistence
in the presbyterian church and royalty
led to war with james's son
charles and that civil war spread all
over his three kingdoms
but the people south of the border call
it the english civil war
what they like after that there was
religious persecution of scottish
presbyterian covenanters under charles
ii
in what became known as the killing
times
when charles the first's other son james
the seventh or
second was ousted from england by a
dutch invader called william of orange
then some folks were upset at the
overthrow of the rightful king james the
seventh
the second if you're in england whose
name jacobus and latin
gives us jacobites now
most of them became actors in the tv
series outlander
anyway colloden the last pitch battle in
british soil led to victory for the
hannoverian side
over james's supporters and a
determination to crush the entire way of
life for these highland tribes people
who supported james clearing people from
the land for larger scale modernized
farming techniques had been going on for
a while now
in england and in lawrence but now it
was
brutally imposed in the highlands
forty years before killorden the debate
about who was the rightful king
had led to england imposing a union in
scotland
so that scotland would never be allowed
to choose its own king and threaten
england from the north
so from 1707 scottish history becomes a
largely ignored subset of british
history
now one of the consequences of post
reformation scottish presbyterianism
had been that scots had the desire to
commune directly with god
so that people had learned to read the
bible for themselves and scotland
was highly literate for many
those high levels of literacy and
education were just about to bear fruit
it meant that scots punched above their
weight in philosophy
science engineering and positions of
administration in an expanding british
empire
and so the 18th century and the 19th
century
were periods of migration some scots
left these shores for the opportunities
they saw in the colonies
many more left with no choice
as a result of poverty clearance or
penal servitude
now as the timeline gets closer to
present day
viewers get even more caught up with
their own political views
so at some point i'm probably going to
need to put on a tin hat
but migration continues up to the
present day
my own wife was born in australia to
scottish parents who then came back to
scotland
but that large-scale diaspora creation
is rooted in that post-colon destruction
of the highlands and i kind of think
that's why so many folks in north
america and antipodes
heart back to clans which in scotland
itself
are largely a forgotten thing in the
past
here things had moved on through the
industrial revolution and those
highly educated and inventive scotsman
meant that every day you used things
invented or discovered
by scots without realizing the
contribution that this little nation has
made
on the world at one point during the
industrial age
20 of the ships built in the world
were built along one scottish river
there was a period where scotland seemed
to benefit from sharing english trade
and global conflict meant that people
pooled together as a unit
through the seven years war napoleonic
wars opium wars
bore war the first and second world war
by the post-war period britishness had
firmly established itself
in liberalism then democratic socialism
meant advances were made
in social mobility the welfare state and
national health service
but where earlier globalization
benefited scotland
there was a new round of globalization
and waning british power
that war between left and right of the
20th century
where the clyde ran red was largely won
by reactionary conservative forces in
the thatcher years
that gave us a drive for individualism
and putting one against the other a
breakdown of social cohesion and the
distinctive political allegiances north
and south
meant that in previously labor support
in scotland there's now
a greater desire to regain independence
than at any time
since the 18th century scotland
is now broadly divided between those who
for historical
emotional or political reasons would
rather take control as freeze swimming
fish in an inevitably smaller pond
and those who prefer a big
goldfish bowl where even the erswell
comrades in the northern english
industrial towns
seem to vote conservative
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