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Eminent Historian Debunks Scottish History As Largely Fabrication
The Times Online ^
| 5-18-2008
| Stuart MacDonald
Posted on 05/19/2008 4:05:09 PM PDT by blam
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To: varialectio
... no kilts til the 18th c. Well, I think it's for sure there were no kilts in the second half of the 18th century. They were banned after Culloden, or so I hear.
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posted on
05/19/2008 5:08:51 PM PDT
by
ArmyTeach
(Live pure, speak true, right wrong and follow The King. (Tennyson))
To: varialectio
... no kilts til the 18th c. Well, I think it's for sure there were no kilts in the second half of the 18th century. They were banned after Culloden, or so I hear.
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posted on
05/19/2008 5:11:00 PM PDT
by
ArmyTeach
(Live pure, speak true, right wrong and follow The King. (Tennyson))
To: ArmyTeach
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posted on
05/19/2008 5:11:50 PM PDT
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ArmyTeach
(Live pure, speak true, right wrong and follow The King. (Tennyson))
To: AnAmericanMother
Sorry,, Taylor’s book came out in 1961. Time flies when you’re having fun.
To: dynachrome
"checking the family history at the website of the Old Bailey proceedings"....
Tried - any tips?
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posted on
05/19/2008 5:52:14 PM PDT
by
norton
To: norton
Just punched in my last name in the search box and cme up with a lot of hits. Helps to have a very common name.
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posted on
05/19/2008 5:57:30 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Socialism is the feudalism of the future.")
To: norton
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posted on
05/19/2008 6:00:10 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("Socialism is the feudalism of the future.")
To: ArmyTeach
The kilts continued as part of the uniform of the Black Watch and a couple of other regiments or militia organizations (including the Duke of Atholl's private army).
About the only way you could continue to wear tartan or play the pipes was to join the army . . . .
The whole "clan tartan" thing didn't really take hold until Victorian times, and the assignment of particular patterns or "setts" to a particular clan is purely a Victorian fantasy. There were some pre-1745 tartans associated with districts, probably mostly because the local weavers had favorite patterns and tended to weave a lot of them. But there was no organized "system" such as they have now.
That historical excuse gives me free rein to avoid tartans that I hate and wear the ones that I like. My dad's family's "official" tartan is dull and boring, so I wear one of my mom's many patterns. She's a MacDonald of Glencoe, but I like the MacDonald of the Isles better, so I wear that. My husband's Marr tartan is hideous and enough of it to cover 6'6" of quarter-Scot, quarter-Irish, and half Heinz 57 would be a public eyesore, so he wears Gordon, with which he has sort of a vague family connection through his dad.
Somebody once asked a Lowland Scot if his family had a tartan, and he replied, "No. Thank God my family could always afford to wear pants."
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posted on
05/19/2008 6:54:53 PM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: varialectio
How it does.
I have that same picture demonstrating the use of a belted plaid in an old book on tartans from the late 50s or early 60s.
In 1967 I was a competitive Highland Dancer. Girls still wore kilts in those days, the "Flora MacDonald" outfit didn't come in until later, unless you were dancing the Lilt.
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05/19/2008 6:57:12 PM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: dynachrome
My London relations appear to have successfully stayed out of trouble before they immigrated to Newark NJ (which was actually a nice place in the 1790s!)
Neat website.
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05/19/2008 7:00:50 PM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: ConorMacNessa
IF William Wallace spoke Gaelic (which I profoundly doubt - he was from Ayrshire or somewhere thereabouts and they thought the Highlanders were barbarous savages from the north and west), he would have spoken Scots Gaelic, not Irish.
It's "Alba gu braith!"
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05/19/2008 7:06:38 PM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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Thanks Blam.In the book, Trevor-Roper claims that Scotlandâs literary and political traditions, which claim to date back to the Roman invasion of Scotland in the first century AD, are in fact based on myth and were largely invented in the 18th century... Scots are also accused of fabricating their own literary tradition, culminating in the publication of The Works of Ossian. These were claimed to have been translated from ancient sources in Gaelic about the lives of Celtic heroes, but have long been suspected of being a figment of the imagination of James Macpherson, the 18th-century Scottish poet who claimed to have translated them. I don't think there are many who regard Ossian as anything but a recent invention; I don't doubt that this isn't a unique approach, though. :')
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05/19/2008 9:36:28 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: dynachrome
Ouch, me ancestors were a randy lot I’ve got to say. Me pur people had a need fer pickin pockets and the like also. No, not nice fellows at all.
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posted on
05/19/2008 9:43:50 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Ronaldus Magnus: The Great Communicator, Philosopher of Conser, Bane of Moscow, Defender of Grenada)
To: AnAmericanMother
Right. Anyone who's even heard of Ossian knows that literary critics have been taking for granted that the poetry was a fake, since forever and a day.
Likewise, the modern kilt is ... modern. However, plaid stuff that shows off a guy's hairy knees has been around forever and a day, also.
What are we going to get next? Eminent historian declares that it is unlikely that George Washington actually chopped down a cherry tree with his little hatchet.
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posted on
05/19/2008 9:49:14 PM PDT
by
Mariebl
To: SES1066; blam; SunkenCiv
Hoot mon, only we wild and barbarian scots could invent haggis and deem it fit food for humans.
Ye canna take that distinction awa from us.
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posted on
05/20/2008 6:00:08 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: Mariebl
Grant Wood beat the 'eminent historians' to it 70 years ago . . .
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posted on
05/20/2008 6:36:45 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: blam
Sounds like total BS.
Never trust anyone who writes a book that is not to be published until five years after his death.
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posted on
05/20/2008 7:11:19 AM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. The Gipper)
To: edcoil
To: blam
Don’t know who invented pants put they are a very bad idea. Kilts are so sensible given the First Law of Human Male Thermo-Dynamics. That being give your b**ls some air.
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posted on
05/20/2008 3:25:55 PM PDT
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gost2
To: TheMom; humblegunner
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05/20/2008 3:26:57 PM PDT
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Eaker
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to have TheMom kill everyone you meet.)
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