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@gijgij4541

3 ай бұрын

Bruce: have you not changed that hoody for four MONTHS?! Phew, let me get upwind... 😉

He scratched a poem about a sheep in the cellar door of my bit when it was a pub built in 1741 in esk st Langtoon

Bruce, that was pure poetry. I get why the suffragettes gathered there. Not a queen, not a rich benefactress, but an ordinary lass on a plinth (plus the brilliant view).

@faithlesshound5621

3 ай бұрын

Very few women get statues unless they are Queens or Goddesses. I heard once that the only example in London was of Florence Nightingale.

Absolutely brilliant, all I can say 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@matimus100

3 ай бұрын

St Andrew loves this comment

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

A ripping yarn, Bruce! Handfasting? Had to look that one up. As a wedding officiant, I have often used the symbolism of actually tying my stole around a couple's hands as if "tying the knot," not realizing that I was performing a "Handfasting" ceremony. Thanks for the story and for teaching an old dog a new trick.

Eloquent, fitting for a Burns adjacent video. Mary Deserves a statue as much as anyone precisely because she was an ordinary Scottish woman of her time and, more than that, one who makes us think.

I think that’s your best video, Bruce. Your commentaries are more than a history lesson; every facet (good and bad) of Scottish life is discussed, with some fantastic insights. I’ve said it before, but you should have a telly series. Sgonneil!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks

@ChristophersMum

3 ай бұрын

He already has a wider viewership here on YT than a TV series in the UK... ...and we are just the tip of the iceberg...some are not subscribed...and some share with others 😁

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Aye I think the point is that if I was on TV you wouldn't get the same thing. They would change it to suit what they wanted as opposed to me saying what I want..

Highland Mary is and was Burns' muse. She inspired him in life, and even more so in death. It is right, fitting and just, that we should honor her for inspiring Scotland's Bard and Poet. As a Scots descendent, we're a deeply romantic people. Highland or Low, it doesn't matter. That her statue could have multiple meanings, only adds to her veneration mo bhràither.

I adore the idea of a statue having four lives! Living in a Southern state in America it makes me think about the four lives of many statues in this area. Thank you for the thoughts I will be delving into. Now on to learn about the Campbell ancestors (which I have some in my tree). This makes me think of an Indigo Girls song lyrics that goes "...and now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another life time." As always, great video!

@eileencarroll6418

3 ай бұрын

The four lives made me think of all torn down statues in the Soviet statue graveyard in Estonia. I wonder if we will ever have one in the USA for statues whose significance have taken on new life and are no longer welcome in their communities. As with the Soviet statues, there are lessons to be learned from the reincarnations of meanings and social and historical content.

@sarahcarnithan6771

3 ай бұрын

@eileencarroll6418 I think a statue graveyard could be a solution. Or plaques that go over both sides of the person that is being memorialized. I personally have a problem with the bust of Robert E. Lee, where I live in SW Florida. I live in Lee County, Florida. The county is named after Robert E. Lee, even though the man never stepped foot in this County. Fort Myers, the biggest city in the county, was a union fort, that took in run away slaves during the Civil War. Thirdly Lee himself was against statues of himself. The bust of Lee was commissioned by the daughters of the confederacy and placed in 1966 during the Civil right movement time frame. So yes there is much to learn with this, local to me, issue.

@johnangelini8589

3 ай бұрын

are you aware of the statue in Savannah "TYRANTS FALL IN EVERY FOE LIBERTY'S IN EVERY BLOW." In memory of our Scottish forbears, whose valor inspired these immortal lines by Robert Burns, this marker is gratetully dedicated by the Saint Andrew's Society of Savannah, Georgia on its 250th

There’s a Robert Burns statue in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia that’s served as a rallying point of all kinds of rallies and protests for progressive causes, most recently calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. The park behind it, named Victoria Park, is home to an ever-growing tent city as the housing crisis and rent prices keep increasing in the city. It’s an interesting bit of poetry that the park named after a queen who herself oversaw the displacement of many people from their homes - including in the Highlands - hosts so many displaced people being watched over by Burns - a sort of champion of the poor and forgotten

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

I'll see it when I'm in Halifax in May. I hope you'll be coming to one of my live shows on 16th or 17th

Bruce, You are a masterful storyteller!! You bring history to life! Kudos! Bruce

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thank you sir

Wow. Fascinating. I recently found an 1863 book of Burns's Works - volume 1 - in a op shop (Australia). I bought it as a present for my husband who was born in Clackmannanshire. My ancestors on my father's side were the clan MacBain/MacBean/MacBeth. My parents, who are no longer of this earth, told me of an ancestor who 'jumped ship' somewhere along the Queensland coast as he was in trouble with the law. Upon watching your youtube video about the 'Wild Scotsman' James MacPherson my mind went bonkers. Many of my fathers' family lived at or around Ipswich in Queensland. My Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother lived in Strathpine for a while...just south of Bald Hills. My Great Grandfather's name was James Palmer and he became the lighthouse keeper on Moreton Island in the early 1900's. No idea if this is in anyway connected, but I've gone down that rabbit hole. I'll keep digging...and I absolutely love your history of Scotland. Stay awesome!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant

@FairnessFobe

3 ай бұрын

One of my ancestors was born in Clackmannanshire!

I lived in Dunoon and Kilmun with my parents, while my father was stationed on USS Canopus, as part of Holy Loch, Scotland; from 1972 to 1974. My mother has many photos of Highland Mary, and loves that area.

That was a nice wee narration at the end, guid to have you back Bruce, glad yer no skiving aff for 2 weeks in a row ;-)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

I had two weeks. Noo I'm back

One of your very best, Bruce. Thank you.

Turning our back on atrocities is difficult, but the right. Will stand and contemplate more statues, I will. Bless you Bruce

What a wonderful retelling of a story. I hope the tourist pressed a crisp £20 note in your hand and invited you to take your family out for a fish supper at the end of it. (I will consult the moths in my wee purse next month to see if I can contribute a small amount to the cost of the salt and vinegar.) Really enjoyed that - thank you 🙂

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

😂I think they were just glad to get away

What a pleasant surprise on a Saturday morning...,thank you sir, enjoy your weekend...E....😊😊

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

@eamonnclabby7067

3 ай бұрын

​@@ScotlandHistoryTours....😊...

Great video as always Bruce , I wonder how much money the Duke of Argyle ( a Campbell ) made from the debacle of the statue . Burns and the common people would have raged that it was turned into an upper class ( classless) sham . Fortunately, we do not have to rub your nose to see the enlightenment and talent you have inside .

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

😜

Thank you for this thoughtful recital. It's plain that Highland Mary never carried a sword or acted with perfidy or treachery. She was a love of Burns, a muse, the would-be mother of his child. He and his life were complex and it is understandable that he would love someone like her. I will be having a wee dram in Robert Burns honor in a couple of days, and I will have one for Highland Mary, too.

BRILLIANT INTERPRETATION with universal application; more please.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

I'll try

@eileencarroll6418

3 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Happy Robby Burns Day!

I truly enjoyed and learned something from this video. I love that poem of Burns’ and quote it often. As an American my history includes a small conflict called the American Civil War. (There are other names) Now we are removing statues of Confederate Generals and placing them in museums or storage. Thank you for naming the four lives of a statue. I never thought of it in that way. I have stood on the battle field of Gettysburg with it many memorials to the men who fought there. I always come to the sayings of the Union soldiers that those statues belong to the men (and one woman) who fought and died on that ground. Than you for giving my brain a work out.

Sculpting is an art. And Art is about interpretation.

Hey there, I'm the guy in Auchterarder that turned to you in the shop and said 'you're the boy on KZread' 🙈 Sorry I didn't have more time, I'm a local taxi driver in the town and often watch your videos during the tourist season so I have some knowledge to show off to American travellers!

Something as simple as a statue can bring out so many stories. This was brilliant. I admire sculptors as I am an artist, so another story could be about the designer of this amazing work of art ❤

Your series has helped me understand celtic people's relationship to not only GB but to independence and the struggle for a national identity in the general sense. Be it in Scotland, the Republic of Ireland or the Northern Ireland settlements, this has helped me understand history behind the history.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Delighted

@sunray1411

3 ай бұрын

No one of Celtic descent, by your standard, live in England then. Cornwall springs to mind straight away. Stop mixing genetics with a Nationalist agenda.

I wish i had someone like you as a history teacher. I always liked history so having a history teacher like you who is as passionate about history as you are i probably would have finished high school and become an archeologist or a historian or a history teacher myself. Your passion about Scotland's history is incredible. Im from the US but my sir name is Grant and i do know i have ancestors who were involved in the Jacobite uprisings. So that has been a subject that i have had an interest in. I even managed to inspire my 10 year old Nephew to learn about history and because of the ancestral lineage we have to the Scottish highlands he is really interested in learning.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Well done that lad

Bruce, the strangest Burns connection is to the TSB. He visited Ruthwell manse near the end of his life. There is a quote and a painting of him saying to “a lassie”, that he would not survive long (it has a chalybeate spring). His host, was the Minister who did a lot of good works, including founding what became the “Trustees Savings Bank”.

Another wonderful video, Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Another gifted video, leaving us all with something important to think about. Thank you.

Well said Bruce!

Tremendous video Bruce!❤ I'm glad that Margaret's (Mary's) statue stands where it stands today. From what you said, I'm glad that it stands at all! But mostly, I'm glad that you paid tribute to her and to the statue. You're right, a statue has four lives at least! She deserves to be where she is. She and Burns were both way ahead of ther time, so it's fitting that she was a rallying point for women! It's a testament to who she was that she didn't end up in the drink! And I think she knew that Burns came back for her. That means she probably was the one that got away, just not in a good way. She is the melancholy in his words. Using his words to end this story was perhaps most fitting of all, because of how well they did fit! Thanks for a truly cool video! 😊 Side note: When I was part of a little Celtic band here in the States, we were invited by the local St. Andrew's Society to play. They had heard that we actually did Burns' music 'correctly'. But the guys in the band decided to march into the hall playing Scotland The Brave on kazoos! So much for correctly!🙄 I was setting up instruments on stage when this happened so, no kazoo for me! I was invited back to perform Burns' songs as well as Scots Gaelic ones but the band itself was never invited back. 😂

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Excellent once again but gives you food for thought 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@matimus100

3 ай бұрын

Jimmy Saville loved Scotland and the people

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

@matimus100 What a dick comment

@jamesconnolly3827

3 ай бұрын

@@matimus100 air falbh agus goil do cheann-loisgte.🖕

@scotland638

3 ай бұрын

​@@matimus100 Lots of Englishmen loved Scotland.

Robby Burns day is hallowed to me. It was my father’s Birthday and my best friend Duncan Campbell as well. And I have a penchant for Whiskey. Thanks for your fine work. You soothe my ears sir. Thank you.

Bruce, excellent video. I loved it. ❤

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

So glad!

I’ve been to that statue, it’s quite a climb! Interesting history, there’s a bit of information about her in the little museum nearby.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Indeed

Im so glad you are back! Hope you had a wonderful holiday!

Blessed Imbolic Bruce family and Crew!!! Big huggies

And lang may yours, totally engrossed from the first minute, saw heilan Mary for years and never thought anything other than "Rabbie's Burd", Thank you Big man. 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

The statue of Mary is lovely, and your video was excellent. Wish there was more known about her personally than being one of many women pursued by Burns and reflected in his work. It seems since Mary has a stature because of her relationship with Burns that there should be also statues to the other women in his life: Elizabeth Paton, Jean Amour, Ann Park, Agnes "Nancy" McLehose, Jenny Clow, and Margaret "May" Cameron.

Bruce, you've such a gift for spinning a tale. But it's more. In your best stories (and yes, I believe this is one of the best) You layer in multiple, often surprising, points to ponder. The longer I watch you (and, I suppose, the longer you are about this work) the more valuable and important these gems are for us all. Thank you!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

That's what I was aiming for my friend

Loved it Bruce! Thanks 😊

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

So glad!

Great thoughtful video. Visited Dunoon and the Cowal Peninsula but missed this statue a few years back. Got an earful from a friendly proprietor about the Lamonts though--delightful, as I may be related! ❤‍🔥

What a great story again, especially your summary at the end. Being descended from the Lamont clan, I agree with you. let us be Brothers and Sisters. Too much turmoil has been started from grievances, actual and perceived. Her statue and story should be viewed for what it is, a sad reminder of love lost. Thank You Bruce!

Well written, well presented and well said 🌞

I was in Dunoon a few years ago geocaching and couldn't find the geocache hidden at that statue- it was missing but I did wonder who she was and what her story was about so thanks for this great video. 👍🙂

As always, Bruce your story telling stirs up some deep thought & then lightens it with a lil humor. I truely love your videos. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

So good. Eloquent, funny, educational and entertaining. Love it.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 күн бұрын

Thank you kindly

I just love your channel. I deliver the Immortal Memory at our Burns Banquet here in Pennsylvania, and I will be passing out the link to this video when it's delivered next weekend. Wishing you all the very best in light and love!

@alanwilkin8869

3 ай бұрын

Whas lake us, No many an there ah deed 😅

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Please do!

Good to see you on the Best Coast. One of these days I ken see mah hoose fae here

Wow Bruce I really enjoyed this👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it

Thank you and happy new year to you

I been watching your channel for a long time and find history of Scotland fascinating one. Also learning more about he my Scottish ancestors and understanding about what life was like for them and how they lived through the hardships and persecutions. I look forward to the next video.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

@ivyjulieharvey3043

3 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours you welcome. Do you happen to know anything else about the Pitcairn family? The last known fact was that the family had been a minister of Dreghorn Ayrshire then the trail ran cold and the family disappeared. Before that, the family were laird of Fife. Now I do have a lot of nomads and travellers in my family so finding Scottish Lords and Ladies popping up is a puzzle. I have found Armsteads Andrews and Anderson's stories very interesting as I am slowly piecing a mix of heritage with more questions and am fascinated to learn more

Wow! Truly amazing! I can think of no other words!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Another thought provoking video 🤠💜

Brilliant and moving video.

Thank you for another brilliant video. A few things you said were absolutely insightful and thought provoking. Well done.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

I thank you

Great story time as always! Something interesting to chew on here.❤

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

Bruce, good to see that you are back and on-line. A few of us will gather at our own statue of Robbie Burns in Brisbane on his birthday (25th January 2024), to raise a dram or three, recite some poetry and wish him "Happy Birthday". slainte mhath Robbo

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant

well said

I found this video moving and became quite emotional Bruce. Thing is i'm not 100% sure why. Certainly got me thinking.

Reminds me of Mt Gambier, South Australia. P.S. I really wanted to go to your show in Adelaide, but the taxi cost shut me down. I hope it was a good show for you and everyone.

Love the story, never heard of this!

Quality as ever, thanks

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Thank you.

Great story “Don’t make it too Burnsie” I really did LOL at that. From what I have read about Burns, it wouldn’t take much to “lead him astray” “Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent among the lasses, O. “

Absolutely brilliant Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

Youz didn't mess about getting that video up 💪 Next time I make it down I'm going to spend a bit less time in the pub and a good bit of time around the Castle Hill, monuments ect. My pal was waiting in the wee coffee shop at the bottom when I bumped into you so I didn't want to keep her waiting all day whilst I nerded out on history 🤣 I HAD to climb the hill though. The wild camping was amazing in the Bishop's Glen area behind the town. It's a really beautiful part of the country that I'm looking forward to spending more time in. Also looking forward to seeing more of your videos on it. Cheers, troops 🤟

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant

Another belter Brucey Boy!!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Cheers

Well done fella thank you again keep yer end up

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

tha beauty and humor of tha telling and tha universal , timeless points You shared through tha video are life lessons to ponder brilliant work / fun as always

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure

I'm not sure why, but this may be the finest story of yours I have seen. Wonderful!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Ah how kind

Fantastic video. For me she was just a woman in love kept from her man by the prejudice and judgement of others. Sadly something that we Scots remain very good at today.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Aye, I don't think it's limited to Scots

I've visited Mary's statue many years ago on route to Dunoon but didn't know the story thank you.

Hey Bruce: How about doing a video about the Wizard Laird of Skene? I know it isn't quite history but I think it could lend itself to your style of story telling. BTW, the oral tradition in our family is that we are somehow related to the Skenes, although the family stories don't match the history we've been able to find online.

Beautifully articulated as usual 213k subs wow , I mind the early days but well deserved

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Aye it's mental

Wow, well told story! Thanks! :)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

Happy new year bruce to you and your family, awe the best fir the coming year 🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥰

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

Brilliant video Bruce. Talking about massacres and such like, I often wonder about the ordinary folk caught up in the big historical events. My direct ancestors as far back as I've traced them on the Campbell side were farm labourers and later factory & ship workers, some living in slum conditions when they moved from Argyll to the Calton in the 1800s. As far as I know they never massacred anyone, that was for the posh folk and their paid thugs, although you never know. Loads of folk seem to claim descent of Robert the Bruce or the Duke of Argyll, but never Hamish the carrot breeder from Kilmahog. But, I'd be very proud to have a link to Margaret.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Exactement

Great stuff. Shared.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

My 1950s US parents were highly unusual. Pro civil and human rights, anti atom bomb, etc, etc., the house was full of books and a great love of poetry. Including Bobby Burns, whom I first learned of as a small child when my mother read his poetry aloud to me. Their beliefs, insistence I learn the real, if often terrible history of humanity also made me into the troublemaker and agitator I’ve been all my life. Thank you for reminding me of those times. Btw my Scottish great grandmother, an East Texas farmer’s wife, was a suffragette who bobbed her hair and was arrested in San Antonio Texas, to the horror of her sons. I come from a long line of unusual, very strong women.

Beautiful!

Really great. Thank you. Sure all your viewers know that Burns is still a gem in Japan.

You are really good at what you do.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

Great history...any chance for Battle of Nesbit Moor in the future?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Who knows?

My Grandparents (married 1904) had 2 statues they called 'Burns and Highland Mary'. The Burns could hold a pocket watch. Thank you for reminding me! I'm 77!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant

Excellent video!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

I believe this is your best video to date!!! Carry on son. See you in Fergus Ontario at the end of June!!

@danielalexandermclachlanga3781

3 ай бұрын

might see Ya there living about hour half from Fergus Slainte

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Can't wait!

I didn't know the story of Highland Mary. Thanks for enlightening me. As I have fewmale Campbells and MacDonalds in my ancestry I don't feel too strongly that there are goodies and baddies, just a whole series of tit for tat exchanges that didn't achieve a great deal in the end.

Thanks

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thank YOU

Great video

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Blessings, great story teller you are! In my opinion Mary carried a heavy load on those shoulders. I can understand why the women gathered to protest to win the right to vote.

Robert Burns is my favorite Poet, have you read the biography, "Robert Burns:The Tinder Heart." By. Hugh Douglas.....I guess that part of my Scottishness won out on what I like in poetry.....Burns was a great poet and loved his wee lassies too much.

Loved the story about Highland Mary ( Margaret) I must say that I have known / been in association with, two Campbell`s both of whom turned out to be devious and duplicitous. So guess which side of the see saw I come down on. Thanks for your stuff Bruce

A grand story well told. Hope you are still adding dates to the Canadian tour. If not I will be booking some holidays for the Calgary show.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Vancouver was the last one added. I can't get Kelowna to answer. There's a possibility of one down Hamilton/Niagra way, but other than that the schedules made up

@bstrac

3 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Calgary it will be then. :)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

I just added a show in Hamilton

Hey Bruce excellent story, broom cottage beside dalintober primary school was Mary’s place of Residence in Campbeltown, unfortunately demolished, who needs History eh, I’m a Campbeltown man who lives now in polmont, maybe see ya in Campbeltown. 😅

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

I'll definitely be there in March

Another excellent video Bruce. ( BTW....there's some talk about you being on the Campbell payroll. Wicked rumors....watch your back ).

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

😂😂I wish I did have their money

Brilliant presentation again, Bruce😎👍 Regarding the Campbells, I couldn't help but think that, at least initially, Royalists they surely were not. Was it not the Campbells' Inveraray that was completely sacked by Royalists (MacDonalds) back in the 1600s at the onset of the Covenanter Wars??? (Near a thousand all put to the sword)? I know that Burns himself was never any sort of a Royalist supporter, neither... (something else to ponder, I suppose, eh)🤔 As with most things - for time and distance to pass - I suspect much of the 'airs' brought about by all the thick pageantry and regalia associated with most Burns Suppers nowadays, ironically likely would've completely put him off - had he known what was to be made of his own so-called "Immortal Memory."😊 (Btw, as for his own regards to "the pith of sense and pride of worth," I've often wondered about what, if any, sort of involvement he'd have had with a bleedin slave plantation!) 🤔🤔🤔 What up wi that!?!? I suppose eh, as with him or any one of us, whether good or bad - warts and all - and for the day that's in it, "a man's a man," indeed.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Warts an a' mate

A differing take on the death of the author, but extended from the author and reader to subject, sculptor, viewer, etc. I was born in Scotland, but have lived in New Zealand for slightly over 50 years since just before my 12th birthday. I remember some teachers in the late 60s who punished those who spoke Scots at school. Our teacher didn't strap like some others. She had a naughty corner, for those who misbehaved. They were given lines to write and had their back to the class facing into the corner. The other was the stupid corner, where they faced the class and were verbally belittled by the teacher for speaking "such a backward, barbaric dialect". She never taught Burns. The first teacher who taught Burns was a teacher I had from 1970 to 1973 when we left. He also never punished people for speaking Scots at school. I think this was more a change from the education department/Ministry, rather than the individual teachers or school. When I came out in the 80s, my father, ever a racist and "traditionalist", said he would have preferred I "had started dating some rough Maori woman, or even a Campbell, than be that way". His hatred of Campbells was greater than his racism. Personally, I think the source of the feud was the rape of the Lamont women, of there was not something earlier lost to recorded history.

Another good one Bruce! When are you coming to America?

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

When visas are easier to get and guns are harder to get😜

@MackofDuart

3 ай бұрын

Looks like I will see you in Scotland before you see me in America. Real easy to avid mass shootings here, just stay away from Gun Free Zones.@@ScotlandHistoryTours