I'm from Australia and I have never been to Scotland, but these videos are like a free tour with the best tour guide.

@Rebelass74

Жыл бұрын

If you are white Australian with ancestors from the British Isles, then you might have some Scottish blood. You are just exploring your own history.👍🏽

It's crazy how you remembered all that dialogue without a cut. Grade A banter and charismatic. You're a natural presenter lad 👍

I've just rewatched this, and marvelled how long the takes are. Bruce's ability to walk and talk, while not forgetting his lines, is very impressive.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

I was chewing gum at the same time an a'

@Albert-Arthur-Wison225

9 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryToursUnlike Gerry Ford, according to LBJ.

@AIGodSkills

4 ай бұрын

Very true and well spotted! . I think it’s fair to say Bruce is an historian , so he can reel this off like GPT unlike a presenter reading lines. He knows his stuff !

This channel has become my latest addiction. Thank you for such entertaining and educational content.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@thegreens980

2 жыл бұрын

@CTHULHU I agree,he does need a telly channel but not the BBC!

@mariaskinnider115

2 жыл бұрын

Just became my favourite Love it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@grahamgoldie1577

2 жыл бұрын

@CTHULHU B.B.C?? That`s Blasphemy! lol

@michellefalleur960

3 ай бұрын

​​@@thegreens980 -- Couldn't agree more !! He's brilliant, & really knows his stuff . (- I Hate the BBC ).

That was funny. Loved the comedy. More entertaining than the history lectures when I was in college almost 50 years ago.

@Boric78

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he was in extremely good form in this one. He is always funny, but the aside comments and digs today were excellent.

Scotland in the house! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@faolanliath6687

2 жыл бұрын

In the hoose.😏

@lastoneoutturnoffthelights8235

2 жыл бұрын

Dan's la Maison.😆

@AAA-fh5kd

2 жыл бұрын

@@faolanliath6687 "Scotlan ben tha hoose"...

@corneliuscapitalinus845

2 жыл бұрын

'aachk, Tay th' shed

Arrival of the Angles and their foothold on Scotland also marks the beginning of the shift in Scotland from a Celtic culture and language to a Germanic one, with Celtic influence holding out in the Highlands and Islands

Bruce, I went to uni to study history. I'd have given my left arm to have had a lecturer as interesting, entertaining, and as easy to watch as you. Keep up the excellent work, I love this channel!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

😂 Aye, until the exams came

I loved how you compared the Romans leaving Britain to the end of British rule in India. This really helped me to understand that period of British history.

Bruce these videos are fantastic! From an English man who got most of his Scottish history from Billy Connolly's World tour of Scotland!

You're a pure legend by the way! If I ever bump intae ye... I'm buyin.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

I'm drivin the dodgeum car tae yer hoose as we speak😂

@TheSuperintendant

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Kettle's oan bruva!

@gsw5503

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 👌

@tonyrtoe-knee

2 жыл бұрын

Whole lot better than that bam Neil Oliver

You really have a gift for making the complex history of Scotland (but also Britain by extension) understandable and interesting. You are a natural teacher.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

You're too kind

Scottish history can't get any better with accent too boot!

Enjoyed that. You where born to tell these stories. Thank you.

This has been the best series of videos yet

I've been listening to David Crowthers 'a history of England' on podcast along side your channel and it's clear to me that through all of our joint historys we are more deeply entwined as a people and muddied be the waters of time than we would like to admit but the key defining moments have created unique cultures and people that give us our countries today. Thank you for your time and energy for sharing these insightful snippets into history from a ever curious Englishman.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

A great video, this time in the history of these isles has always been a favourite of mine.

Bruce is killing it with these videos ! Absolutely outstanding

You’re amazing with your historical monologues -well done Most history teacher couldn’t do it

Very interested in this area of Southeastern Scotland the Angle territory. Always wondered how much of the Britons stayed in the area and were under rule by the Angles or did they mostly head west to Strathclyde. Thanks again Bruce great video.

@fibber2u

2 жыл бұрын

Though it's probable that disease to some extent opened up the land to invaders. Plague is believed to have come from the southwest i.e. the Roman Empire, with the invaders coming from the east and much less severely hit by it. The early warrior invaders would have been short of women. Servants, serfs and slaves are valuable assets. Also taking children to raise as part of your own tribal group helps too more quickly replace the inevitable casualties. I'd say large numbers of surviving Britons stayed put. They were subsumed into the new dominant culture as most American Natives are today outside of the reservations. Further south from an Angle, Saxon and Jute perspective Scotland, Wales and Cornwall would be the equivalent of reservations (no pejorative meant they represent the limit of the power of the invaders). Celtic strongholds also existed in the English Peak and Lake Districts for awhile. When the Norse came to England they being of such a close linguistic and cultural group in large areas must simply have became, Norman like, overlords and did much less displacement of populations. Once again locally becoming the dominant culture and able to control such things as place names but eventually subsumed like the were Normans in their turn into what was to become English culture as must the Angles in Scotland have been into Scottish culture. But all groups will have left their contribution to some aspect of future culture. So the Scots (not Gaelic that's Irish) language probably has foundations that predate Modern English and is influenced by Modern English rather than being a dialect of Modern English

@nutyyyy

Жыл бұрын

There definitely a lot of Brythonic influence in the placenames and a fair few Gaelic ones also. The Lothians seem to have been a pretty contested area between Britons, Gaels and Angles.

Fantastic History! Thank you Bruce!

I really love this channel! You do great work.

I didn't think I would be that interested in the history of Scotland, but with the way that you present it, I am now. Very interesting.

Love learning about were my ancestors came from. Thanks Bruce . Much love from North Carolina ,U.S.A..

Yes, I AM following these videos. Bloody marvellous 😀.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

as always interesting, fun, informative and great.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

This channel is better than what's on the tv, loving it

Mate. You're the teacher that I never had. Keep doing what you do. 🙏

Gotta say I love your history vlogs! Your style of delivering the information is well engaging. I’ve lived north of the boarder for over ten years now and consider myself “Yorkshire - Scottish “ not entirely sure that’s a legitimate ethnic group but I kinda have a foot in both camps 😆 Now subscribed to your channel. Keep up the great work 👍🏻👍🏻

Mr Fummey!!! Love the channel! Glad I found it and I'm glad that you've found your calling here. Sending good vibes from one of your auld bawbag pupils! Was always happy to get you as a supply teacher. You would give the patter right back to the cheeky wee shites in class 😂 (me being one of them....) Keep up the good work ✌️

Thank you for the family history.

Great Video Bruce exactly what I needed before sleep. Thanks so much for these videos and you definitely have got what it takes to get story across in a humorous way. I'm glad I was here while you only had a few thousand subscribers for a while before you just took of. My favourite You Tuber tbh Lots others have subscribed not just for the historic content but coz yer genuine Personality shows through Pal 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

In at the ground floor mate

Love your videos man. I'm a born and bred Northumbrian with very old family ties to Bamburgh.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

Another video. Thank you sir

Awesome history videos, easy to understand thanks for posting.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

A great video, very very interesting.

Great video 👍 I was wondering when you'd make a video specifically on the Angles 😉

Thanks Bruce! I just started watching the "Vikings" Series on Rainforest Prime Video, if you catch my drift and these Videos are filling in some of the background. Thanks again dude :)

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Great informative video as always👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Always a joy to watch thanks Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. I loved you in Young Ones

@NeilTheHippy

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Vegetable rights and peace ✌🏻

Great content as always mate!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Cheers

Newly discovered historion for me, highly addicted and a joy to listen too

Irishman here. There's a great book by John Prebble that is a must read for all history buffs - The Lion In The North, first published in 1971. Great channel by the way👍🏻!

Just found that I have a bit of Scottish blood. Learning this history from your videos is as entertaining as it is informative. What an interesting people and land. Thanks...

Amazing account. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

I too am so wrapped up in this channel. The best history content of Scotland and all it's layers of tales and legends, and honest history. Not a wee little squeak, a grand effort.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

😘

I'm from Newcastle and spend a lot of time in Northumberland. Really really enjoying the education 👍

Cheers for the uploads mate .helps my father a lot as time runs out . He loves them all .keep them coming 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Ah no😥

I like that scenery, looks so cool.

@jontython

2 жыл бұрын

If this beach was in a hotter climate it would be in the top 10 in the world, it's absolutely amazing OcculiMortis.

@margaretsmallallan28

2 жыл бұрын

It is cool indeed! Bruce has on a thick jumper, and the very few other folks on the beach, have jackets and trousers on, as likely a cold wind was blowing from the North Sea! That is so cool in the month of August!

@OcculiMortis

2 жыл бұрын

@@margaretsmallallan28 👍

@OcculiMortis

2 жыл бұрын

@@jontython 🤘right on.

@leehallam9365

2 жыл бұрын

Well of course, it's in England. 🤭

You're a fine story teller , bro ! Well done . Gripping .

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

Fantastic stuff Bruce; truly. My family and I are planning on coming over next year; would love to visit the locations you highlight.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

Brilliant as always, you’ve taken me back home. I’m visiting in July and I’ll think of you but I won’t be riding a horse along the beach as I have in the past. I’m so pleased you mentioned Utred as well - I’ve followed him all ever England with Bernard Cornwell. Keep keeping up the good work 🌞

Very interesting history! ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Your presenting and production are great mate, really enjoy your content. 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

8 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

I am so impressed with your ability to remember complicated names and events. While I only got a Kindle sample, I can hardly wait to read “The King in the North.” Thanks for the recommendation and the video. Always a pleasure.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Never miss a video absolutely awesome history is fun and definitely worth watching

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

😘

First one of your video I've seen but this is awesome better than anything I've seen on TV.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Excellent series, learning alot about Scottish history. From Northumberland in Angleland.

I love your take on Scottish/ British ethnicity. It puts the views of many reactionaries into perspective.

@carlossaraiva8213

2 жыл бұрын

Remember always: reactionaries/conservatives (same difference) are never right about anything. Their entire point is to believe in myths and lies. All they care is to create powerbases and lies are no worries for them.

@davidsoulsby1102

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlossaraiva8213 I'm pretty sure you can't get a conservative reactionary, two totally different perspectives. I think what your trying to say is nationalism has two equal but opposite opinions but they are at heart the same. Or that's what I hope your saying and not bringing biased politics into the conversation to conflate. 👍

@carlossaraiva8213

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidsoulsby1102 Say.... what?? Dude, all conservatives are reactionairies. They are synonimous.

@davidsoulsby1102

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlossaraiva8213 err no that's totally wrong, your confused by the propaganda I suspect.

@carlossaraiva8213

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidsoulsby1102 Sir, you jest.

Very entertaining and informative. Because of you, I'm now putting together the origin of the Scots into a cohesive timeline. 👍 for you Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

Just found your videos, love them! Have you done one about the historic 'Manhood Stones' of Scotland?

I've been loving this series. I'm looking forward to seeing the Picts video when its ready. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Pressure

@bigredmarchingon3200

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I have my pitchfork ready but I hope I wont have to use it...lol

@coinneachreid8971

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours the bigger question is whos next the Picts or the Northmen ?

@coinneachreid8971

2 жыл бұрын

And if you wanted to throw the Normans into the mix . Their influence has long perplexed me as Scotland was the only nation that the Normans influenced in a different way from there normal practice of Conquest, marriage and alliance was the way that the Bruces and Comyns came to prominence they didnt do this anywhere else

@AAA-fh5kd

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours you're a joke.

love your content, thank you!!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Jeremy

Fantastic… ‘hegemony’ and ‘zombie apocalypse’ and all before the Vikings arrive! Great stuff

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Nearly spat my dinner out, when asked about Scottish Independence, as I have advocated for years the sooner England gets its independence the better, and we would most definitely hang on to Eire/Ireland. I love your capacity to articulate the dynamics of history. There are so many things that happen, with their own time lines to create any one scenario in all stories, and in particular how history is or has been generally taught. Your dissecting and weaving of these different stories into a relatable historical period, reminds me of Tolstoy......but with a guid sense of humour. Another A+ on the report card Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Makes a difference to my old school report cards

@samsowden

2 жыл бұрын

Really would have been a neat way to deal with the whole brexit/independence shebang wouldn't it? England wants out of the EU? They can leave the UK.

@alistairsavoury1074

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Mine too LOL

@philipcorr8225

Жыл бұрын

You will never hang onto Ireland.

Love your storytelling style. I wonder if you’ll eventually work your magic on the history of the rest of these islands if it’s not too big of a job. Either way, thanks for the amazing videos.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

I'm happy in my wee corner😎

Bruce, you just explained my lineage much deeper than I ever realized! From one of those *#&@# from Kelso to Ferniehurst. Thank you!

Bamburgh castle is a fantastic place to visit, I usually go to photograph there once a year

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

It certainly is!

It took me all of five seconds of watching this video to make me fall in love with your content. Sub'd for life!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant

Really enjoyed that. The king in the north is my favourite book. It mentions the little village I’m from a couple of times Gilling it’s where Oswine was murdered.

been to that castle a few times.... i could never imagine it being used in a SCOTLAND history tour

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Well now you don't even have to imagine😁

@daftydave5349

2 жыл бұрын

Ironically they used it in most recent movie version of Macbeth

Now I know how Bernard Cornwell's fictional Uhtred of Bamburgh Castle sort fit into the creation of England and Scotland via a very loose historical tie in with the real historical Uhtred of Bamburgh Castle. I may be having an epiphany regarding historical fiction and historical fact via Bruce's wee stories.

Another top video with a great angle...

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Oooft 🙄

your a good story teller. Enjoying the channel.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Delighted you're enjoying it

I’m a Scot living in Australia I came across you while searching for something else, I absolutely love your sites been watching them love your humour it’s downright brilliant I’ll keep watching thanks for all the laughs and patter keep it commin..no I didn’t misspell it🎉 cheers Helen

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Ah brilliant. Thanks

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thanks Helen

Thank you so much I have been living in Dundee for the past 20 odd years and I never learnt so much Ta

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

Loved the brief tartan zombie appearance; and nice artwork on the wall-climbing barbarian.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to my laddie

@jamesbothoms6009

2 жыл бұрын

My only issue with the wall climbing fella, was if he was at Bamburgh, he still had a good journey South left to get to said wall

you nailed it

Love your prescentations bruce far more Intresting🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers

really interesting.

Really enjoy listening to, and watching your videos. Just frustrating I can’t remember it all. Of course gives me the excuse to watch you again - and again! 😂. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

Absolutely brilliant lad.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Excellent stuff again. Good history, one that tells it with all the nuance and complexity, is so important in this post-truth age of re-invented nationalisms of whatever hue. And you do it so well. You’re a natural presenter. Now I’m off to watch your video on the Picts. PS liked that walking programme on the BBC the other week.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir

Welcome to England Glad to have ya !!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

It was shut😜

I LOVE LOVE THIS CHANNEL! .

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

The channel loves you😘

Good stuff, as usual. I have just returned from a 3+ weeks stay on the Northumberland coast (5miles south of Bamburgh) which included another visit to Lindisfarne as well as trips to Alnwick + Warkworth Castles. Great part of the country. I was almost sure I saw my wife walking behind you in the video but, no, it wasn't...!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

😂 There was somebody who only realised after watching a video that they'd been parked next to us in the car park

After binging "Last Kingdom" on Netflix, this 5 video series was super interesting and enlightening. Thank you. So many new facets. So Uthred of Bamburgh, the hot-head, was a real thing....

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

There ye go

Really enjoying these wonderfully narrated histories. I understand many of the videos overlap in their timelines. However, it might be useful to have a kind of chronological order to them, then I could start from the beginnings and work my way through. Just a thought.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Each are intended to be short stand alone videos that research, writing and travel time allow and that folk can dip in and out of. Maybe one day I'll have a big budget and all that kind of thing. Who knows

@johnmcluskie54

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Fully appreciate that. However, many of the ones I have watched so far, usually focus on a specific time period, and there is definitely a progression throughout. When I have watched them all, I may create what I think should be order for a new viewer to watch. You certainly have a way with words and your dulcet tones, knowledge and humour are infectious. Thoroughly enjoying them.

Most of my reading of History and watching videos of the same have been marred by the impression that history was as dried up and dead as the remains of some unfortunate whose crypt has been disturbed. I enjoy your videos because you put some flesh and blood to history. Kudos to you. I hope you will continue to create and upload more history for years to come.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

5 ай бұрын

Thanks

A GREAT INSIGHT TO THE HISTORY AND LOCATIONS ALONG WITH YOUR SNARKY HUMOUROUS TWIST BRUCE , TAKE CARE MEEE SCOTISH BROTHER 👌👌👌

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

😜

Was hoping you’d call him Uhtred of Bebbanburg😂 Great video Bruce

Another great video. I didn’t know much about the angles. Being a fifer, descended from the caves at weymss I’m really looking forward to the Picts!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Aye, the question is: How can I make it spectacular enough to live up to everyone's expectations?

@duncancallum

2 жыл бұрын

Same here Sean , my lot lived in Perthshire a wee bit back in time .

@geoffdundee

2 жыл бұрын

Sean Smart..........only a true fifer has webbed toes :)

@seansmart2756

2 жыл бұрын

@@geoffdundee shhh…. Don’t tell everyone Christ! Lol

@seansmart2756

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours maybe speak to the Weymss and see if they’ll let you in and around? That’d be a world first and I can only imagine the collections and stories that family hold close.

Nice one! Congratulations form an 'Ethnic human' Stay safe. ATB. Nigel

Another awesome one man. Your thumbnails are great by the way

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! That's my laddie

@celtichistorydecoded

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours They're awesome. The bright colours stand out really well on KZread when I'm flicking through

love this stuff...I usually don't subscribe, but for this channel I make an exception.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Guid lad

As a Geordie enjoyed that video, Northumberland is a fantastic place, if you love castles, history etc then it's your place. Oh and we have some of the best beaches in the UK, we just haven't got the weather 😂😂😂. Great video cheers mate.

@anonUK

2 жыл бұрын

St. Andrews has got one of the best beaches in Europe, it's just 1000 miles too far north and faces the wrong direction. Who wants to sunbathe facing Norway when you can go to Spain and face Africa?

Right the moment you mention the vikings the vid was interupted...by a tourism add for Danmark 🙂

Another excellent video

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Whoa I learned more here than I did in my courses at uni. Thanks! Lindisfarne was super important for my courses but no one mentioned this.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Can't wait for the Picts! They're the originals.