culture – think Orkney, Calanais, New Grange, Stonehenge Avebury, Carnac etc. – started in this part of the world must now be taken seriously.
Another cornerstone of our national identity, is that the Scots arrived from Ireland around 500 AD. The reality that there is no evidence to support this idea may well be more to do with Christian propaganda than actual fact. There is much, much, more.
The Jacobite cause was not snuffed out at Culloden. Bonnie Prince Charlie wheeched off back to the Continent and continued ploting to secure the British throne for more than a decade, but the situation in Scotland remained uncertain for a good many years. The British government was terrified of a new uprising and garrisoned Scotland with a heavy level of security for a decade. Virtually every glen had its own small garrison of British troops, while throughout the Lowlands, towns and villages likewise had a heavy and obvious military presence. The spin at the time was that most of this was to stop the depredations of Highland thieves who were raiding the Lowlands. In truth, there was a small-scale guerrilla campaign going on.
Despite even that arch establishment mannie, Sir
Walter Scot, writing of such Jacobite insurgents as the Seven Men of Glenmoriston and Sergeant Mor, the idea has been allowed to arise that Scotland was pacified swiſtly aſter Culloden and the natives accepted their lot. Well, considering that their lot had included suffering murder, rape and pillage on a scale that can clearly be considered ethnic cleansing, under the explicit instructions of the Duke of Cumberland, the reality that there was some resistance is hardly surprising.
The vicious and racist portrayal of Scots in general and Highlanders in particular in the 18th
century
has been finding remarkable echoes in the demented haverings emanating from much of the metrovincial media over the past couple of years. How dare these uppity Jocks expect to have a say in the governance of Britain!!
Generations of Scotish politicians have been happy to accept this atitude, stick their noses in the trough and snarl at us – Wheesht, gie’s yer votes an’ dae as yer tellt! Weel, they ken noo.
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