Upcoming Live shows www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx Find out the history of the kilt at kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYSAra6PprvFfJc.html Buy me coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/ScottishBruce

@grann8862

4 ай бұрын

❤

@Albanach-je1nk

4 ай бұрын

Bruce just to a pain, all the time I lived in Edinburgh I pronounced the palace Holy Rood witch is how is spelled and not Hollyrood, you must know story of how Abby was founded. Can we try to have the name of place pronounced as should be . We had enough trouble with Hollywood when we think of Brave hart. Soar Alba

@TheChzoronzon

3 ай бұрын

Dude... can you let the expert talk 10 facking seconds without interrupting him? geez

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

@@TheChzoronzon Nope

@TheChzoronzon

3 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Shame on you, so big and so childish

I'm sitting here watching this in my pipe band kilt. Our band tartan is Holyrood. I'm in northern California getting ready to play my pipes at a Christmas season ceremony at a local cemetery. A ceremony to honor fallen military veterans.

@silverlaptop2022

Ай бұрын

Because yur Awesome like that 😊

That Royal Company of Archers uniform is badass! Never knew such a thing existed, magnificent!

Ma mate was getting married in a kilt, I asked him "what's the tartan" , "aw she's just wearing a white dress" says he.....

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

😜

@stewiecindy5889

4 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😅😅

@saorsa5

4 ай бұрын

😅😅

@mrmisc8427

4 ай бұрын

😂

@w.reidripley1968

4 ай бұрын

...I rather hope that was when you hit him.

I'm glad Peter explained the mystery of tartan paint. This is the sort of knowledge that we all tune in for on a weekly basis. 😂 Thanks Bruce and Peter for another brilliant video.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

2024. A mixed dude with dreads and the thickest Scottish accent is telling me about tarten. What a time to be alive.

About the Tartan in China, _I visited those_ as a kid. It was an ancient proto-European tribe that wandered out into the Gobi desert; their chieftain in his burial wears a pair of trousers, one of the oldest trousers in the world currently intact. Because of the extreme dry conditions of the Gobi Desert, those tribesmen excavated were found in a state of natural mummification, their skin dehydrated on them and everything. On the chieftain you could still see the reddish color of his beard. Said my dad "they look Scottish!" And then of course you got Atlas Silk with the Uighurs, which are like Tartan if it was more of a psychedelic rainbow.

@lenabreijer1311

4 ай бұрын

All hair goes redish after death as the other tones are leached out. They weren't proto European, the latest DNA shows them to be mixed Chinese and Indian and siberian

@samwallaceart288

4 ай бұрын

​@@lenabreijer1311Ah for real? That makes sense. Obviously I knew they weren't scottish-scottish but I thought their face structure looked more IndoEuropean than Oriental. Indian/ Siberian/ Chinese makes sense

@julianndavis9415

4 ай бұрын

Now I want to go to China and see that too!

@samwallaceart288

4 ай бұрын

@@julianndavis9415 wouldn't recommend it these days; it's a police state over there now especially around Xinjiang

@realWorsin

4 ай бұрын

This statement is false. Hair does not do that over time. Many mummified Blacks were found and they all continue to have black hair. This is a myth and was debunked many years ago. People in that area DID have reddish, blonde and brown hair as well as black hair. @@lenabreijer1311

Thanks for that Bruce. It's always been funny to me seeing people on clan history FB pages arguing about "authentic" tartans etc when that family element is such a recent invention. There's also the Roman era "Falkirk Tartan" that was found with a horde of Roman coins years ago. There's not usually much mention of it.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Whilst Peter and I discussed it in the background he tells me that the GlenAfric was the first 'true tartan'

@GraemeCampbellMusic

4 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Ah fair enough

@therabbithole-sn5yb

4 ай бұрын

Yes, the Falkirk tartan is not mentioned as much as it should be, because it's not as Peter described "true tartan" or asymmetrical, but it is still a tartan weave & even though the older tartans aren't asymmetrical they shouldn't be discounted by historians as not "true tartan" because tartan has been a part of Scotland's history all the way back to the picts & Roman occupied Britain. Roman writers wrote about the colorful checked patterns of the picts & celts. But just as the English wanted, which was why the dress act was written, now even the Scottish historians act like Tartan was meaningless & just an English invention...😂

I was rather surprised to see how prevalent tartan is in East Africa. In a lot of documentaries from the Ethiopian highlands you will see people clad in tartan, and the Masai of Kenya seem to wear quite a bit of tartan as well. Top notch stuff as always

@xtramail4909

4 ай бұрын

I thought Scottish brought tartan to Africa

@andrewharper3165

4 ай бұрын

As Bruce Fummey and Mr Mcdonald, the expert, already stated there are indigenous produced tartans from all over the world.

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

4 ай бұрын

One Edinburgh Castle espanade, in Festival time, I saw a splendid Gurkha Pipe Band. Also the smartest man I know is Maasai, from Kenya and has a degree from MIT.

@Taliesin-xd7ke

4 ай бұрын

@@xtramail4909 a glimpse of, before the bullets hit.

@alecmisra4964

3 ай бұрын

Probably indicative of scythian migration.

The earliest description of a Scot tartan is found in a 1503 manuscript....the 1503 MacIver. This tartan was the base for the first Campbell tartan, as all Campbell's had their origins in Clan Iver....and as such it is also the base for the Black Watch who were originally Campbells commissioned by the king. Clan Iver!

@richardbradley5217

4 ай бұрын

My grandad was in the Black Watch during ww2

I find it amazing that it is possible to do isotope analysis on wool that been buried in a peat bog for 400+ years! Science, eh?! 😍 "Of which more later..." Peter MacDonald knows who to keep his audience hooked. 👍 It is weird how recently many of our "ancient traditions" were created. The Victorians have a lot to answer for. 😄

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Aye Peter was a star

Americans can become quite heated in discussing "family tartan". I was surprised to learn that the codification of tartan only dates from 1815! Some of my US brethren act as though their clan tartan dates back thousands of years.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

I know. It's one of the things that makes us smile

@leslie4351

4 ай бұрын

Ah... ignorance is bliss!! And I'm an American! I'm of the "Nobragger" Clan!!! 😂

@hollywebster6844

3 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Sometimes I think we just like to argue and try to "one up" each other. 🙄

@mandaout2427

3 ай бұрын

Americans were the absolute worst tourists in Scotland.

@silverlaptop2022

Ай бұрын

Clan MacDonald here in Washington state West coast 🌹

This was a eye opening trip through tartan. I never knew the history was so deep. Thank you Peter for all your work and Bruce as always wonderful job

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@eamonnclabby7067

4 ай бұрын

ScotlandHistory...not a tartan...but I still have my Avoca Tweed jacket and cap...maybe time to let go...

@frankhancock2881

4 ай бұрын

@eamonnclabby7067 To us Americans the tartan is that most recognition part of Scottish historical and war. So don't feel negative about the comment that an American cares enough about another country to delve into tartans and kills and meanings of them all. And about the highland and lowland clearance

@frankhancock2881

4 ай бұрын

Those very clearance are what brought my coal mining great great grandfather to Virginia and into the Appalachian mount8to mine for coal

That is a beautiful museum.

Great work, and I learned quite a bit I wasn't aware of. Thanks, Bruce! I wear a Clan Shaw tartan sash with my Cherokee regalia as a nod to Dad's side of the family. Strangely enough, its white folks I get the most comments from about doing that. I tell them that in the early days, since most transported Scots weren't exactly warmly welcomed by English colonists, many of them went up into the Appalachians and settled near or among the various tribes living there, and frequently married in. A look at the rolls of the Cherokee and Muskoki tribes in particular looks almost like a roll call of the Clans because of this. Also, the children of these marriages were referred to as the Blessed Blend because of their extraordinary beauty, talent, and form, having inherited the best of both lineages. As I honor both sides of my ancestry, it just simply made sense. A Cherokee artist (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) named Martha Berry has used tartan to make several bandolier bags for both men's and women's regalia, embellished with traditional beadwork. They are stunning (and quite pricey, too).

@jacquelineleitch7050

3 ай бұрын

Here’s a Canadian aspect funny true story. A FN friend of mine was giving flak to a woman about assimilation of FN designs in Canadian clothing. As my FN friend then related the story, the woman responded to her saying “well look at you wearing tartans and plaids isn’t that assimilation” to which my FN friend responded without any sense of the irony “so I’m not allowed to wear clothes now?” I was so dumbfounded when she related this story to me that I had nowhere to begin. The Celts and FN have come a long way together in Canada. In many ways both tribal cultures were well to have found each other; given what was coming down the tracks (so to speak). As to how I responded to my friend, I just let it go as I knew that her concept of the tribalism of the tartan wasn’t clear to her and it wasn’t her intention to downplay that. I should have maybe explained it to her. Later

I know wool is traditional, but I wish the manufacturers would notice the very large number of people with Scottish family names who live in warmer latitudes in the US, Australia, etc. My brother-in-law is a McLaughlin who lives on the US border with Mexico and suffers from the heat. Cotton tartans might not be strictly traditional, but I'm sure they would be popular. Also, I'm sure the improved opportunity to see men in kilts would be appreciated everywhere.

@leslie4351

4 ай бұрын

I guess they don't want to change traditional grade for the sake of modernality...?

@joanhuffman2166

4 ай бұрын

@leslie4351 adding cotton to production is not "changing" tradition. That would be particularly silly since the whole idea of family tartans was made up in the 19th century. Adding a line of tartans in cotton increases their opportunity to sell products in more parts of the world. Would it improve my own opportunity to see men in kilts? Yes, yes, it would.

@rickmoore3730

4 ай бұрын

@@joanhuffman2166 There are lots of tartans available in poly-viscose that are both cheaper and cooler to wear . Also although not as good for kilt making 12 ounce wool would also not be as hot to wear .

@joanhuffman2166

4 ай бұрын

@rickmoore3730 My brother-in-law almost had heat stroke wearing his kilt at the wedding in Spring in El Paso, Texas. We're on the same latitude as Tripoli Libya.

@rickmoore3730

4 ай бұрын

@@joanhuffman2166 I am in southern Ontario ,Canada . Even Virginia in summer is very hot / humid for me . The problem with light weight wool ( 12 ounce ) or light weight cotton is it won't hold pleats that well and will crease like crazy . I have one 14 ounce eight yard kilt that is good for summer here but the rest are 16 ounce kilts . Also for hotter weather a four yard kilt would be more suitable as there is no re -enforcing in the waist as with an eight yard kilt . Even here I tend to leave the eight yard kilts for the slightly cooler to cold weather . And remember , a kilt is only hot around the waist . It is pretty neutral for the rest of it . A four yard poly-viscose or wool kilt is the best way to go down there .

From nova scotia, I did highland dance for years as a kid. At some point my parents got my own kilt and wool socks, as well as a sash for the lilt and flora, done up in with our familys tartan for my competition dances. I still love those pieces from my childhood.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

I hope you're coming to see my show in Halifax, New Glasgwo or Annapolis

My understanding is that the oldest UK "Tartan" was discovered in an earthenware pot filled with silver coins, at the Antonine Wall in Falkirk, Scotland. This fragment, known as the Falkirk tartan or Falkirk sett, is currently the earliest check fragment found in the British Isles and dates back to Roman Britain times (around the 3rd century AD). It is actually more a tweed than a tartan in weaving style. This very plain check is available today as Northumbrian tartan which, as a descendant of Border Reiver clan, would be my personal choice. I particularly like that it's a historic and generic pattern and as such predates all the commercial tartanry of the 19th Century.

@skellagyook

3 ай бұрын

I was about to comment that. Tartan patterns are also found for on the ancient Bronze Age Celtic Hallstatt Culture in the Switzerland/Austria region, and are attested throughout ancient Gaul, Britain, and Ireland (as well as among the Balts, Slavs, and perhaps some Germanic peoples).

Really fascinating, as a sassenach I am actually entitled to wear my tartan and a kilt, a black and grey. The ancient Northumberland plaid. I plan to wear it at my wedding in January 2025, ready to repel any incursions from north of the wall! Thanks for the programmes.

As an American who just discovered my 11th-9th great grandfathers were Campbells from Skipness, this was fascinating. Thank you.

@pjmoseley243

4 ай бұрын

why cant Scotland, Ireland and Wales have a TARTAN FLAG?

Sometimes I’m happy to fit the description of the American who doesn’t know anything except his family name tied to a fun video. Thank you Bruce for giving my wife and I something to be happy about. “A Gordon for me” singing was perfect. Thank you for keeping us humble while enabling us to reach back into a culture that we feel apart of. Bydand!

What a beautiful museum!!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Indeed

@DawnDavidson

4 ай бұрын

I LOVE the design of the museum displays! The pattern of the beams and the display windows being a tartan design itself is just genius. Subtle, clever, elegant. Whoever designed this museum should have won an award, and I hope they did!

I always thought tartan’s history went back hundreds of years. Thank you for the video.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome

@suem6004

4 ай бұрын

Nope. All marketing a false legend of family tartans

My mothers family (Clan Elliott) were exiled from Scotland to Jamaica hundreds of years ago. Thanks for sharing. I love learning and piecing together our history.

Haven't looked up the ancestor's tartan in a while. With the information in your video to go on as well, it doesn't show up earlier than in the Stuart's book. A great watch as always 😊

Good stuff Bruce, The history of Tartan is fascinating, many years ago The The Museum of Scottish Tartan in Comrie Perthshire had a piece of the Tartan Alan Bean took to the Moon, on loan. It's said while he was there Alan Bean claimed the Moon for the MacBean Clan. Making the Moon, or at worst the Ocean of Storms Scottish.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

I suspect that museum was run by Peter

@Wee_Langside

4 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Quite possibly, we would have visited round about 1990. I have a picture of my middle son wearing a kilt they had there when he was about 8 years old.

I respect your ability to interject at appropriate times to ask questions, clarify, and demonstrate your engagement in the topic. It helped me digest the food of information much better and set the tone of the video as more conversational than something like a lecture. Your guide clearly had lots to share, and it's unfortunate the time was limited... Thank you both for the interesting introduction into tartans!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Who knows, maybe we'll get him back for a longer episode at some point

@chrise.321

4 ай бұрын

Yes! Maybe the guide will be allowed to finish his sentences next time without you interrupting to repeat what he just said.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

@@chrise.321 Stop yer nonsense

@lizzy66125

3 ай бұрын

that would be good.​@@ScotlandHistoryTours

It's always been my understanding that the plaid was coloured by the use of local plants. Mine's muted pink and yellow and tis beautiful 😊. Thanks Bruce and Peter.

It's fascinating to see how vibrant they managed to make those early tartans, even although they were working with plant dyes.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

True

@samwallaceart288

4 ай бұрын

The hard part is keeping it from fading, I'd have to imagine

Thank you! Very informative about the tartan! Etymology: Blend of Middle English tartaryn (“rich material”), from Middle French tartarin (“Tartar cloth”), and Middle French tiretaine (“cloth of mixed fibers”), from Old French tiret (“kind of cloth”), from tire (“oriental cloth of silk”), from Medieval Latin tyrius (“material from Tyre”), from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”).

Another great educational video, but one that leaves me with so many ?s this topic always has though. It is a true shame that after Culloden so much of our history was lost, because if there wasn't a real significance to tartan (like historians claim) then why ban it in the 1st place? I guess we wont ever really know... Till next time ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@euansmith3699

4 ай бұрын

That's a good point. 🤔

I would definitely visit the museum. I've been interested in tartans since the late 80s. The designs and history are so fascinating.

Thank you Bruce for the tour of this museum and the knowledge of Peter! He answered so many questions (and arguments! Ahem!) that I've had with folks over the years about what a tartan really is and who first started the fashion! This would include 'knowledgeable' people with degrees in this type of stuff over here across the pond! Informative and entertaining as always! Happy Christmas to you and yours!😊

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@seangeppi1839

4 ай бұрын

I always enjoy your stores. Happy Christmas❤

I was just looking into the history of tartans jist a few days ago, and suddenly this! You must be readin my mind man!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

I send faireies through your Alexa

@SugarandSarcasm

4 ай бұрын

He's the one in your phone, listening to your every word.

@eamonnclabby7067

4 ай бұрын

​@@ScotlandHistoryToursTom Sleman writes a lot about them on haunted Wirral...on the Wirral Globe website

What an interesting video with two really passionate Scots. I noticed the tartan telephone box (TARDIS?) at 10.46 and the dialogue on tartan paint was hilarious. Keep ‘em coming, Bruce and compliments of the season to you and yours 🌞

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for that!

My Sharp Family history goes back to the Highlands of Scotland and may be connected to the Stewart or Cameron clan.. My first name is Cameron so my parents were proud of where we came from. BTW, My grandmother ran up the stairs until she was in her 80's, then she walked up. I take my inspiration from her and always take the stairs. Keeps me healthy.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Aye, I bet her KZread videos were nae guid though😂

@allie1953

3 ай бұрын

My mother too (may she rest in peace), bounding up the stairs, two at a time, well into her seventies, then slowed down to one stair at a time in her eighties but still quite rapidly! Your comment brought me back to that funny memory...

Clan Boyd here Have a great Christmas man

Great video, it was interesting to see the couple of early tartan. I reenacted The 45 so i knew the no clan tartans until after the 45

That was absolutely fascinating. Thank you Bruce from far away and currently very soggy northern end of Queensland Australia after cyclone Jasper.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

oooft

Just when we thought Bruce would wear a tartan for a video. Thank you for another excellent video Bruce.

This is exactly why I subscribed. 😊

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

Fascinating Bruce - thank you!

Fascinating. Especially that the Bean tartan apparently went to the moon. That’s the clan of my Scots ancestors. I had a tie with that tartan. I’ll have to see if I’ve still got it.

Fascinating look into tartan!

Man I wanna visit that museum!

Wonderful video Bruce . My turn to name drop . I bought a kilt from a site in Scotland that sells used highland wear . I saw a kilt ( much too large ) in Wilsons of Bannockburn colour palette and bought it . The tartan was woven by Peter MacDonald whom I had never heard of . When I told the kiltmaker in Vancouver who was going to rebuild the kilt that it was woven by Peter he was gob smacked . He ended up preserving as much of the material as he could because of that . I was chuffed having a kilt in the Wilsons colours but now knowing Peter was involved takes it to a whole different level .Cheers .

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant

Thank you Bruce for a wonderfully educational video! I'd love to visit some day.

You and your TEAM are amazing! Thank you so much for all you do #believeitanditwillbe 🙏🏻♥️🕊️✨✨👑👑🎶♾️🌊🏝️☀️🌙🗺️

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Great video!💪🏞🌠 Loved learning the tartan history. Had not ever heard history on tartans before. Loved this!

That was a brilliant episode big fella. 👍🏻👍🏻

MacDonald on both sides of my lineage. Clanranald on my mums side and MacDonald of the Isles on my dad's. Loved this video, great stuff as always Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@eamonnclabby7067

4 ай бұрын

My Uncle Archie RIP was a descendant of the McDonald's of Glencoe...apart from my Aunt, all of them have migrated around the world....cheers/ slainte...E...

@davidgray3321

3 ай бұрын

My grandmother also, she absolutely loathed Campbells which seems rather negative but to her it was very important. She was born in the rain of Victoria, her father was a Pipe Major who fought in Sudan, the Boer war, and finally ran out of luck on the Somme in 1916, I have his obituary. He was 54.

@davidgray3321

3 ай бұрын

Sorry I misspelt Reign, I am a poor speller

Hi there thank you for another awesome episode big fan My mother’s mother were weavers of tartan way back when and my many times great grandad was a weaver and the Scandinavian side from mother’s father side were weavers And I’m proud of not just my Scottish roots but also my weaving heritage My 5th great granny was Lady Forbes who designed the Forbes tartan in 1780 Thanks to Peter who I bought the wool from yrs ago I recreated the 1780 Forbes tartan as a university project and I still have it and love it

I have several family tartans so this drew me in and imagine my surprise to see Hamish! Made me smile!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Ah Hamish😎

thankyou for still remaining to be one of the only genuine content creators on this dying platform

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Ah no, that sounds sad

Thank you so much; this was wonderful.

Thanks for this one, Bruce! Excellent!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks for sharing 😊

Thanks for a very informative episode.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Another great video Bruce 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Love this!! I follow the Tartan website too very informative vid now for the kilts Thankyou Bruce! ❤

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant

@eamonnclabby7067

4 ай бұрын

​@@ScotlandHistoryToursAnna from Ukraine ,sometimes wears something similar to a McDonald tartan...I,m such a nerd...😅😅😅😅

Thank you---I'll follow up the reference.

Really fascinating 👏 👌

Love the bit where you start up the stairs, look up and then head to the lift 😂 We are obviously the same age!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

😜

Thanks for another fascinating video

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

... and remember a 'plaid' is a blanket, not the pattern!

Just facinating. Who could have guessed that marketing played such a large part in 'the " fantasized Myth" of the Tartan. I had visions of the clan McDonald and McCleod proudly wearing their clan tartan up in the highlands of Scotland and that was one way of identifying themselves during battles....no other rival clan would dare wear the tartan of another clan......Big Sigh here....but that was just a romanticized version of the early life of a tartan. My brain has got to update my visions of how the early clanspeople of the Highlands dressed.!!! Thank you Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Sorry to burst the bubble

This is so cool !

Scottish history is interesting, but that man make it so much better! You have to be interested by a man who loves a subject that much ! Keep up the good work, you've just gained a binge watcher subscriber!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant

Love this!! The bit about China blew my mind. That's really something.

Yes, in addition to parallels with cultures displaying colorful garments and patterns, it seems that plaid trousers and tartans are pan Indo-European tradition. From Scotland, the ancient Hallstatt Celts and deep into Central Asia and Western China. Thanks for the video.

I'm a very proud Scot and love learning about our history. Thank you so much for this great insightful channel :-)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Glad I came across your channel.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Me too!😁

Thanks!

Brilliant. Wow

My grandmother was a Gordon. I had no idea that there was an entire museum devoted to the Gordon name… wow!

fascinating stuff

Great vidya brucey-fella as always

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

Lord Bruce! Fun and interesting! Stair climb alone worthy of $Thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

That was very interesting.

Back in the 1980s, public television in the United States broadcast the Royal National Theater production of Tom Stoppard's 'On the Razzle', a new adaptation of the 1842 Viennese play 'Einen Jux will ich machen', which had previously been adapted as 'The Matchmaker' and then 'Hello, Dolly!'. It took place during the height of the 'Scottish craze' in Vienna, with the fascination for Scottish tartans playing an integral role in the ensuing comedy of errors. It featured Felicity Kendall (The Good Life), Dinsdale Langdon, Alfred Lynch, Meg Wynn Owen, and Harold Innocent, among many others.

Outlander has made me a Scot lover!

Your audio is awesome

Loved the switch to the elevator!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

😜

Love to hear how the Smarts or Smearts have in common with the McDonalds in Scotland? Just found my family heritage of Scottish roots and tree from there, thanks and really love your shows and views and keep it coming please. Learning so much, thanks!!!!

SOOOOO interesting...

facinating

Great video!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

A brilliant, truthful, honest review of Tartan, where large screen movies meet the reckoning between fact and fiction. Even the origin of the word 'Tartan' is disputed between English, Scots and French meaning of 'linsey-woolsey cloth'; though Scottish Gaelic 'tarsainn' meaning, 'across/crossing over' is also claimed. Fascinating and intriguing, though throws-up questions of whom owns what in national ownership or origin of symbolism, that is weaved into and effects modern views on Nationalism. Maybe 'Tartan', taking the meaning 'across/crossing over', is a lesson to us all, that it is better and stronger to be intwined than to be separated by misplaced historical assertions, perceptions or even untruths in the cause of Nationalism within the islands of the United Kingdom.

@resourcedragon

4 ай бұрын

Well, linsey-woolsey was originally a fairly cheap cloth with a linen warp and a woollen weft. That really wouldn't work for tartans as shown, which (at least in Scotland) would have been woollen. EDIT: also, it is very difficult to dye a plant fibre and a protein fibre the same shade with the same dye. Again, linsey-woolsey is going to make achieving equal warp and weft thread counts difficult. This is why linsey-woolsey works a lot better for denim-like fabrics.

@euansmith3699

4 ай бұрын

@@resourcedragon Linsey Woolsey would make a great name for a sightly delicate character in a novel.

@jackdubz4247

4 ай бұрын

"...it is better and stronger to be intwined than to be separated by misplaced historical assertions, perceptions or even untruths in the cause of Nationalism within the islands of the United Kingdom." What a weaselly comment. The UK is not, and will never be, about intertwining anything. It's always been about the submission, subjugation and assimilation of the non-English peoples of the island of Britain along with their respective cultures into the English way of doing things. The truth is we don't need to be together to live together. We never have.

Awesome as always! As an American obsessed with family history, I've always wondered why it seems we are more inclined to dig up our ancestry and their respective histories. Maybe we're not more inclined its just that I'm into it and have a bias. I don't know, just something that popped into my head. Anyways, again, great video!

@samwallaceart288

4 ай бұрын

Americans created their own identity when they moved to the New World; it's only natural many of us feel a need to reconnect and ground ourselves when our ancestors aren't buried right beneath us. To me, the more I find out about my family's ancient history, the more it sounds like something my family would do. My mom's family was always British with some German stock, and traveled all the way from New England to Kentucky setting up missions and churches, but Benedict Arnold had a huge falling out with America when he threw them under the bus for his British connections, and he spent the rest of his life floating around in England not really welcome or respected by anyone and completely alienated; which 100% sounds like something my grandparents would have ended up pitfalling into. Meanwhile all the American Wallaces have been hard-headed wannabe-intellectuals bravely putting up with rough work conditions while only _just barely_ getting along with their boss, until one gets fed up, burns all their bridges, and moves out further West, which is 100% my dad all over. Right now back in NY area I know these NY natives who are very similar; hard-headed wannabe-intellectuals who always push for what they want despite the dirty jobs they work at and their persistent people-problems; sure enough, their grandma was a Wallace; a photo of one of my great-aunts is in their living room. To a guy who grew up in Asia with family all over the world at this point, seeing that was mindblowing.

My grandmothers name was “Ida Ellen Bell” a surname that has origins everywhere not just in Scotland but Ireland and France the biggest factor in the identity was Gaelic thanks again for sharing your incredible videos >^..^

More about the tartan!

Awesome!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Great video.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Hi Bruce, Looking forward to your video dedicated to the connections between Scotland and Jamaica (hint, hint). My maternal grandmother was a Johnston. My Mum was 25% Scottish, while my sister is 39% Scottish. As a child my parents gave me a storybook about Robert the Bruce and the spider. Only lately, due to DNA analysis, do I realize the personal connection to that history. As a fellow Afro-Euro person, I thank you for what you do and say. Maybe I will get that Johnstone Tartan handkerchief.

I always wondered how and why the Massai wear tartan when they have been nomadic for so long. And their beadwork is extraordinary.

I’m late in late I’m late!! 6 hours late! 😂 super glad it’s Saturday. My entire tribe is sick with a tummy bug. Perfect excuse to lay in bed watching Mr. Fummey videos 👍🏼👍🏼 Oh!! Bruce!! I have an exciting update! My eldest college student will hop on over to your beautiful country for the spring semester!! Uni of Edinburgh here she comes!! I’ve been sharing your videos with her for a few years. Now they mean a little bit more to me. 🖤🖤 I will now go watch your video. 😊

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant

Passed you on the way back from Abernathy the day I think ?😂😂😂 Made my day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💪🏻 Cheers for the vids Bruce 😎

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

I was away for clootie dumpling

Absolutely fascinating video Bruce. THANK YOU. At :26 I immediately went to the Kung Fu Panda movie when says 'ah, my old enemy.....stairs'. My favorite line from that movie. I'm with you Bruce, actually ahead of you as I wouldn't have gotten up the 1st set of stairs. At 1:00 "I'm a stairs guy" Well played.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

4 ай бұрын

😜

Loved the video and Im sure my Gran would have had some strong opinions about it lol. She was from the highlands and a very proud Scot :) My Mom was born in Inverness and our clan is the Stewart clan. Plus (,rumour has it ) one half of a rather fracus dinner party that didnt end well . I plan to save this video and see what my friend (MacGregor ) thinks of it :)

Oh love all the Robertson tarten each one is beutifull