The Highland Clearances: Explained (Short Animated Documentary)
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- The Scottish Highlands used to have a sizeable population. But now they're barely populated at all, so what happened? Well, the Highland Clearances happened, that's what. Find out what that was and who was effected in this simple, short animated history documentary.
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Sources:
Sir William Johnson, Highland Scots, and American Indians by Colin G. Calloway
From Family Roots to the Routes of Empire: National Tales and the Domestication of the Scottish Highlands by Juliet Shields
Highland Migration to Lowland Scotland, 1760-1860 by T. M. Devine
I have probably heard the name James Bissonette more than any historical character by now. Must be a great man.
Same 😂
Closely followed in greatness by party boyco
What about the amazing spinning 3 plates?
Rob Waterhouse is his deputy
Lol
Why did I expect the sheep to fall and make a thud sound instead of dissappearing?
Its the 1750s and shaun the sheep is dead.
This actually made me laugh out loud. Well done, mate.
But isnt Shaun the sheep irish?
I was hoping for the sheep to go THUD too!
Shaun the sheep is BRITISH!
@@Valencetheshireman927 With a Irish name
"At this point he was only a marquess like some sort of a peasant".
marquis
@@joshuakevinserdan9331
No, marquess is the English spelling of the French word marquis.
@@Mr.LaughingDuck thanks, didnt know that
:)
"Gross"
@@Mr.LaughingDuck The big irony though is that the "quess" part also comes from french (or possibly latin), but from earlier on
Interesting side note: Some of these highlanders ended up as traders on the American frontier and married into the tribes of the southeast. Which is why, during the Creek wars, the Chickasaw were lead by Chief Colbert, the Creek by Chief McGillivray and during the Seminole Wars one of the war chiefs was a McIntosh.
Even more interesting
By current year my family (keith) has more native American blood then Scottish.
Apparently there were strong similarities between the Highlander clans and the Native American tribes in terms of honour systems etc. which really helped... Plus both had felt the boot of oppression surrounding colonialism.
This really IS interesting. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
There is a pub in the west end of Glasgow, the lismore. In the gents toilets there is an inscription in the urinals that details 3 families who made their wealth through the clearances and invites you to 'pay them the respects they deserve'
I normally shake twice so as not to anger God but I'll give it a third so the Campbells get their gold, I'm sure he'll understand
BASED!!
My great great grandfather and grandmother where kicked from the Isle of Skye because of this. They settled in Nova Scotia and built a fishing schooner. The men in the family would go fish for Cod up near greenland and the north pole. My great grandmother was a teenager and became the ship's cook.
Tough people ! You come from good hardy stock .... well done your family
At least Scotts made Nova Scotia. Home away from home. Now they can live in peace there without England
Your not a Scot.
@@Artur-hg1qg When did I say I was?
@@JG-id5vi I am a troll lmao.
New Zealand lamb: Scottish revenge.
But the Scottish fucked over other Scot
@@the_red_barron1002 Lower-class Scottish revenge
allan lanktree I live in Texas and had some NZ lamb last week. SO good. As a Brit I was raised with NZ lamb during 50s and 60s. It’s my favorite meat and NZ does it best. Rock on NZ !
@pbrin we tenderly feck our sheep, that's why it tastes so amazing.
@@phbrinsden I will receive that compliment on behalf of all New Zealanders.
this is the true way of learning history
so you want to tell me there is another one?
But he talks too fast
@@SteveBaily6 Say what? I watch his videos 1.75 times faster. :D
@@SteveBaily6 he talks at a normal speed for a British person
Nooooo it is not. We are doomed to repeat all the terrible mistakes in history with that attitude.
You should also do a video on the Act of Enclosure, which also forced a lot of English people to migrate to industrial cities after being forced off their land during the 18th and 19th centuries too.
Land enclosure impacted people all throughout Europe and started to become widespread in England during the 16th century, it's a considerable subject in the agricultural and industrial revolutions. I'm not sure he could do it justice in a few minutes.
@@Pizza23333 read Orwells essay: "the road to wegan pier", which was the industrial "result".
@Stardust the bourgeoisie class are the city dwelling capitalists and industrialists, the people responsible for the clearances and enclosures were the landed rural nobility who tended to look down their noses at the "nouveau riche" capitalists.
Peasants and tenant farmers aren't technically proletarians (factory workers) either.
@@thedwightguy i think you mean Wigan pier. Wigan being and industrial town in Lancashire.
@@davemoss6976 Yes, Re-read last year after reading it in HS. Stands the test of time and a reminder that turning over decisions to our "betters" is fraught with bullshit!! We have thousands of Scots, Brits, and Welsh that come to Canada but bring their "US Against Them" game with them. Remember Thatcher and the northern labour organizations fight? The fight doesn't appear to be over.
Circa 1450 about half of the Scottish population lived in what is now called the highlands. So even the 30% figure mentioned was a transitory figure. Actions such as the Statute of Iona had been affecting the area 2 centuries prior to the Clearances. The Clearances were just the final nail in the coffin.
Plus when you say British, it would be helpful if you mentioned the Lowland/Highland in a little more detail, since some erroneously equate Britain with England. (Which is ironic considering Britain comes from the word Pretani, who were essentially Proto-Scottish)
It had been on a gradual decline, it was not a good life for most people. That being said it was 100% a British government attempt to destroy the clan system and ensure loyalty to the crown.
It's also worth noting that some clans that were loyalist remained, and others that had land taken away had it given back after fighting for Britain
@@european-one
So pretty much a typical British dick move. Sounds about right...
I told the Scottish friend what made Scots great. It was the mountain that bred men with endurance. High altitude force them to have more blood cells and oxygen carrying capacity. WHat I found out was Tobacco destroyed that. Everyone she knew smoked. Now the pride of British army is no longer the black watch, but rather a different Mountain people. The gurkhas.
@@slewone4905 it's not really that simple. There's a few things to consider.
1: their diet was very basic. Largely grains and vegetables with the occasional bit of meat. Not enjoyable, but very healthy.
2: almost all were Farmers, and Farmers are generally pretty fit.
3: the clan system meant you owed fealty to your leader, and that meant fighting on demand. Most of them were combat trained.
4: location would be part of it too, particularly as city's were very badly polluted (worse than today).
5: there was basically no infrastructure. If you were well off maybe you had a horse, but even then there were almost no roads. That meant if you wanted to get to the next village, it's a cross country treck.
Their life's were hard and Spartan. Hard lives breed hard people, and they were the cream of the British army for a long time because of it.
Since then:
Scottish diet has become a lot worse
Bad habits like smoking, albeit in heavy decline these days.
Occupations have changed, very few farm now.
Infrastructure is much better. One of the things the British did was build a massive network of roads. This wasn't an economic decision, it was so they could quickly move army's to give the northeners a doing if they got rowdy. Look up general Wade roads, Scotland If you're interested. Some fort building followed it.
The death of the clan system also saw a decline in Scotland's martial ability and fighting mentality.
The fact that so many Scots went to New Zealand, Australia and Canada is no coincidence. These country's had similar geography to the highlands. It was a form of legal slavery though, until your fare was payed off you worked without wage and couldn't leave your masters land. A good number didn't survive the journey either due to overcrowding and disease.
Those at the bottom of society always get shit on, some things don't change
This makes me quite sad, such a tragic event.
Africa is worse
Samuel Orji not a competition mate
@@leoslack6104 your genealogy of thought is free of my reality your thoughts are pure but the impact of your controlled actions are devastating to my people.
@i can almost fart my ABCs I know but the reason you assumed that was necessary to say is because you know deep down just how inhuman and close to savagery your ancestors were...
@@leoslack6104 It always is to the people like that...
*Moves all the talented sheep farmers overseas so you get to pay more and wait longer for the product*
British: *B i g B r a i n T i m e*
well at least no more revolutions.
the british got what they wanted though the clan system is near not exsistant in scotland right now.
It worked really well for the British in power. New Zealand was the very efficient farm yard of Britain right up until they fucked us over by turning to Europe leaving us in the economic cold just like they’d left the Highlands.
@@allisondoak9425 That might reverse soon with current conditions. Leaving the EU, coronavirus making US look away from Chinese supplies, US and other anglosphere cooperation etc. may see fortunes turn good again.
Your understanding of logistics and lead time leaves much to be desired sadly.
There streets in Glasgow named after some of the clan names. Whole villages moved into a few tenement housing blocks
There are also streets in Hamilton named the same, by way of Glasgow.
@@markanderson3870 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada???
@@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki No Hamilton, Bermuda ;-)
Hamilton New Zealand presumably. Largely settled by scots who fought in the invasion of the Waikato in the late 19th century.
Lots of Hamiltons in the Commonwealth
"Legally The land was held in common"
OH NO
*Changes law
ANYWAYS
"Legally it wasnt their land, to slove this, they changed the law" that and occupying is pretty much englands thing
@@johnmccrossan9376 We learned it from the Normans who in fact did much worse to the English
2:45 *how the tables have turned*
Those turns sure got tabled
How the turntables
Well well well, how the turntables
@My nationality doesn't matter Because the evicted Scots in New Zealand outproduced the new landowners in Scotland.
"Until they got a bit too catholic" british history in a nutshell
After 1536 definitely lol
The fact they'd prefer a Dutchman over a Brit says a lot about British history.
@Niek Vels. Oh really? No national feeling in England in 1688? That’s hilarious. This guy knows nothing about the English History. The national feeling can be seen in England during the 100 year war, during the Spanish Armada, ... etc... The Glorious Revolution was indeed a Dutch invasion, but accepted by the English élite for religious reasons. The hatred against the Catholic Church was stronger at that time that nationalism. But nationalism existed.
@@georgeprchal3924 The mother of William III was the sister of the king of England, whom he deposed. So he wasn't very far from being English himself.
@@Frir10 George I was distantly related to the British royal family and got the crown simply because he wasn't catholic
I'm a Kiwi of Scottish blood, and even though we always took pride in our Highland ancestry growing up, it wasn't till I was an adult that I leant about the clearances, and found out that many of our ancestors didn't emigrate voluntarily. And the worst thing was that it wasn't the Sassenachs: it was our kin. They did it to their own people.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the Lowland Scots didn't even see the Highlanders as their kin, by the 1700s the Scots of Glasgow and Edinburgh were more culturally connected to England than to the Highlands. It's a bloody shame we have to see yet another culture be nigh eradicated by posh idiots in charge.
@@pepp418 true, and it's something he neglected to mention in the video. The "Lowland Scots with English habits" very much looked down on the poor, backward teuchter.
The fuck is a Sassenach?
@@ghoclatetgvgvt4228 Gaelic word for Saxon, today meaning Englishman.
@@MNKY80808 speak English dammit
England: It's over Scotsman! I have the high land!
Scotsman: You underestimate my sheep-farming power...
Aight imma head out to murica
My surname is Young, and three of my great-great grandsons will become rock stars.
The video clearly states that the clearances were almost entirely a scottish enterprise. He even makes a point of busting the myth that it was an england vs scotland type struggle.
@@sergeanthowiefromthemainland Yeah, it's a joke dude.
@@someguy3766 Yes but it's poorly worded in more ways than one, which make it seem like you've missed the point (which of course you haven't).
It’s strange living in the highlands. The settlements aren’t old. There are old places and old structures, but when you ask most people where their parents or grandparents came from, they’ll mention somewhere in the lowlands. It’s pretty sad.
We have Ceilidhs though, which can be pretty dope.
It could be worse they could be English.
I think the oldest structures I could find were old croft boundary markings, from the recession in 1840 when various local lords funded construction of them to keep the local economy from nosediving. Doesn't help most of the local settlements here got jigged about and moved when the local railway line was finished (ended construction in 1901), so a lot of the traditional settlements along the lochfront moved to the railway side and the sea (so as to land fish for sale). Most of the other ruins I've found here are from the 50s as various outposts got abandoned. The region has gone through a lot of successive shocks to forced emigration and internal settlement movements, so I suppose it makes sense that the easiest stuff to find it the old stone croft divisions, since the legal status on those hasn't been in as much flux and many are still used.
Very well informed and balanced video. I live I the highlands of Scotland(Caithness) and we live with the legacy of the clearances every day but it is very rarely spoken about so thank you for bringing up this topic.
aye, its a shame its rarely talked about. We live with the scar and although the highlands is a beautiful and quiet place. What's sad though when you remember it is kind of man made :-(
How is it balanced when it doesn’t even include the statute of Iona.. for someone from the highlands you sure seem to be clueless
My father's family came over to Canada because of the Jacobite rebellions. My ancestors fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie, and when the rebellion was crushed and Charles fled to France they followed along with many other supporters. France, while happy to welcome Charles, weren't so keen on a bunch of Scotts moving over, so they shipped them over to Canada instead - so the family lore goes, at least.
1:50 Be gone Scot
BE GONE *SCAWT*
*if HE breathes he a scot
WilliKeks But my name John
@@hahaha5290 *igniting lightsaber
Aye
I just want to say this, you are my favourite history youtuber. Keep up the great content.
Our teacher showed us this video in class today, It felt cool having already watched each of these videos about 5 times each. feels good man.
I like how you make these videos as fun, informative and unbiased as possible. Very well done.
Terrific - I knew the Scots emigrated to NZ but didn't really know why beyond "to start a better life"
Shame because I would like to think there was nothing wrong with their life before a bunch of boabies came along and shafted them
My kin --- Clyde to Dunedin from 1868. Why? Land. And opportunity. And they succeeded on both fronts (and the beautiful farmland they broke in, still hugely productive today? It was uninhabited swampland until 1890).
bad choice though, NZ is the shittiest Anglosphere country
In quite a lot of places in the highlands you can still find the ruins of some of the homes people were forced to leave. I’ve came across a few.
I love how short yet how many videos of these there are, keep it going!
Thank you for making this video, as far as I know my ancestors came to Nova Scotia during the clearance and seeing a video on this is nice.
Yep, I know of this quite well. The massive Scottish Emigration to the Island of Cape Breton in Canada was a direct result of the clearances. My G-G-Grandfather was born in North Uist in 1837 and was forcibly sent here. He never saw Scotland again.
Well that was extremely interesting, educational, and very to the point. I enjoy watching your videos, keep up the good work.
_siiiiip_
Finally, a new piece of history nobody has covered yet. Thank you History Matters
I mean, there are dozens of hour long TV documentories (and I don't mean shitty US History Channel documentories) on this subject, and thousands of academic history books
Entertaining and informative as always. We need more video's though please
Here before history facts gang
I know you're busy, but these videos are a very welcome escape from what is happening in the world right now. Keep em coming please.
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My family has an oral tale past down about a village near where I'm from called sgighoratà, it was burned down and every person evicted. If you walk to it today you can see the scorch marks and feel the sense of dread. We still feel the effects of what happened today
A shame that old Scottish culture is long dead.
@@lennydale92 its not, I speak gaelic, so does my entire island. It's very much alive
@@fsxpilot02
A mere shadow, Scottish people used to be independent minded, family oriented and smart.
@@lennydale92 wow, that's pretty offensive.
@@fsxpilot02
Not really, it's being truthful.
The English too have lost much of what had made them English. It would take a lot of work for either country to come close to the strong culture they had.
This episode is a new personal favourite of mine as this is how some of my family made it over to Australia
Great video. I first heard about this from my uncle the other night, so it was great to learn more.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!!!!!
"and Izzy?" Lol
Is he?
@@mirzaahmed6589 hahaha no I'm 95% sure he didn't say that
One about the enclosure acts in England would be good too
thanks for the entertaining and informative content :)
Thank you for doing this video
1688: Lose your king.
1707: Lose your country.
1745: Lose your clan.
1770: Lose your home.
1790: Lose your will to live and move to Australia.
1800: Lose market share to sheep farmers on your old land.
1915: Lose your only son at Gallipoli.
1932: Lose to emus.
1942: Lose protection of the Royal Navy.
1967: Lose your Prime Minister in a freak swimming accident.
2019: Lose the World Cup.
2020: Surely this time. . .
Richard Stockton wit
Ok hold up, which bloody country even is this? the first few apply to Scots but then there's 2 aussie ones thrown in there and finally finishing off with an English one. Is this some immortal highland world traveller on a mission to have the shittest life in the world? My god is it Mel Gibson reincarnated to prove that once and for all Braveheart is a historically accurate movie?
Le Pepp It’s the story of a Aussie descendant of the the Scottish Highlanders.
Wow... nearly eveything you said there, you got wrong
But on the bright side they would have won Bannockburn in 1314, and loads of Cricket and rugby world cups, and netball,
Woah - when the Parliamemts of Scotland and England merged in 1707 , the crowns had already been united since 1603.
Yes but 1707 was when England paid the equivalence to Scotland and the United Kingdom was born.
Before 1707, the Crowns were still separate. There was still a King of England and Scotland, but they just happened to be held by the same person. The Acts of Union merged the Crowns into a Kingdom of Great Britain.
Before 1707, England and Scotland were in a personal union because they had the same king, but weren't merged in one country.
Nah, they were 2 seperate titles still, this is when they become one
@@davidgalloway266 The UK was born in 1801 not 1707. You're thinking of the Kingdom of Great Britain
Love the little kilts. It’s so clever the way the “people” are dressed to reflect the story, from one country to the next.
For anyone wondering this peasant marquess was George Leveson-Gower, Marquess of Stafford, and he was only the Duke of Sutherland for about a year in 1833 before his death.
Wow thank you for the answer I never asked for never knew it would be interesting
I think if you've watched Rob Roy with Liam Neeson I think it's about that not 100% sure though
As a New Zealander with Scottish heritage it’s bloody hilarious that we put their sheep farms out of business.
Well you didn't as those sheep farms still exist in Scotland.
And wasn't new Zealand part of the empire at that time anyway?
I'm a new Zealander with Scottish ancestry, my last name is literally McKenzie
My great, great grandfather was Evander MacIver. He worked as a factor for 3 Dukes of Sutherland from 1845 to 1895 and as such was involved in the clearances. He cleared his own children to Australia and South Africa....
Wow, he was such a hard worker, he was clearing people from the highlands 100 years after they'd been already cleared.
Thanks for spreading awareness of this chief
‘Be gone Scot’
‘Actually my name is Robert’
Huh, couple of years ago I went to Sutherland's home, the spectacularly grand Castle Dunrobin. A member of my tour had a medical emergency and we ended up spending most of the day with the house to ourselves. We heard it had something to do with the Highland clearances but not much detail. He apparently owned much of the Highlands and built the railroad himself to extract resources. Probably richer than many kings in Europe. Some of our group were Americans descended from Scots he kicked out.
The Duke's factor, Patrick Sellar, was responsible for a number of atrocities while engaged in clearing people from the Duke's estates. There is a huge statue of the duke on a hill/mountain overlooking a large part of the area. There have been so many attempts (by locals) to blow it up, that it is now protected by video cameras, etc.
Well articulated synopsis.
I love your channel! Please make more videos! Make a video about the Zulu and boer wars because they are interesting and mostly unknown. Also make a video about the British trying to take Afganistan.
The Marquis of Sutherland was also Anglo-Scottish his land agent was English but he was Half Scottish and Sutherland is a Scottish region in the Highlands and his although he was the son of the Marquis of Stafford his mothers side were Scots his mother being Lady Louisa Egerton with the Egerton's being a very old Scottish Noble family and his step mother was also Scottish and was the daughter of Alexander Stewart the Duke of Galloway
Good information, but please, breathe! You need some punctuation.
@@fallingmasonry Lol, my bad, mate. I was tired when I read that.
The Highland Clearances also meant the banning of tartan, bagpipes, other Scottish tradition and the speaking of Gaelic. It was a process of Anglificiation of Scotland.
The 1746 act of proscription banned male highland attire for any male not associated with the British army. Male highland attire also included coats and jackets made wholly or partly of tartan. The act was repealed in 1782 by which time highland males no longer wore kilts except in service with highland regiments.
Gaelic was not banned and neither were bagpipes.
Clan chiefs were banned from raising private armies but could raise highland regiments for the British army full of kilts, bagpipes and claymores.
The clearances ran in a couple of peaks between 1750 and 1860.
The 1872 Education Act made it illegal to teach children in Gaelic. It didn't ban Gaelic but children were forbidden to speak Gaelic at school and were punished for doing so.
The Anglicisation of Scotland goes back at least to David I (12th century king of Scotland) and the establishment of royal burghs - market towns basically. These were originally set up in the heavily English south-east parts of Scotland - heavily English because the region used to be part of the Kingdom of Northumbria but had been conquered by Scotland after being weakened by viking attacks and settlement. More burghs were created in the Gaelic parts of Scotland and the early inhabitants were recruited from the English speaking parts of Scotland and townspeople from northern Europe - Flemish for instance as they were familiar with the structures and had links to trade networks in Europe and England.
Having made the English speaking parts of Scotland the centre for business it was only a matter of time for "Inglisc" culture to spread across the poorer parts of Scotland and the association of wealth with English speaking became established.
Seems to listen to Southern Italy's story upside down. We didn't "clear" them though, mafia system is still there.
this is how mafia works
I live in the highlands now and its crazy to think something as horrible as this is so unknown to most people. Thanks for making a video on this.
I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.
You're supposed to say, "...I am immortal and I cannot die."
HEEEEEEEEEEEEERE WE ARE, BORN TO BE KINGS
WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE!!!
As a true McLeod of Clan MacLeod you don't know just how much we despise Conner. Though the movie was quite entertaining.
Before that it was Dennis Weaver who couldn't even spell it right.
I found this channel about a month ago. As a history buff, I find the short videos useful as a jumping off point to explore subjects and events I hadn't considered. I would love to see videos of the African kingdoms before colonization.
Is there written or oral histories that go back very far from European colonization?
@@youtubeaccount5153 Yeah, the Nubian civilization located in modern day sudan
Thanks for this!
Hailing from the area, the final comment about sheep brought a hearty chuckle :)
Im from the highlands and the Jacobites actually had far more success then you made it seem. There were many battles they won with a landslide and many times they seemed to be unstoppable. Thank you for this video🏴
When we visited Scotland a few years ago. We stayed at a B&B near Loch Ness and there were a lot of signs warning about "feral goats." We asked the owners what this was about and they said that some of these were goats left behind during the clearances who are now pests, eatings crops, flowers, etc. and sometimes attacking people.
I love this channel.
"You have slapped your Willie around for the last time!" -Grounds Keeper Willie
Could you do a video on the clan system. It was such a unique federal system
Slight correction: Crowns combined in 1603 with James I / VI and parliaments combined 1707 after the failed Darien expedition of 1705 (which would make a pretty cool lesson too..)
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation...
The crowns didn't combine in 1603, rather they were two separate crowns held by the same person. The Act of Union turned the two crowns to one.
It was James the Sixth and First, not the Fourth James
@@Pizza23333
What Jock said. James was King James the 1st of England and the King James the 6th of Scotland. He was one man with two kingdoms and this continued until the Act of Union which made it a single crown and kingdom. The Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland ceased to exist; becoming the Kingdom of Great Britain or Great Britain.
On the 1st day of 1801 the Acts of Union 1800 combined Great Britain with Ireland to produce the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
King James VI/ I also hated the clan system as much as the Georgian monarchs did.
My paternal Scottish side were booted from the Isle of Iona in 1849 by the Duke of Argyll...it was a family of 9 children, the second oldest son made his way to Canada (working on a ship)....the youngest son joined the military and was sent to guard prisoners on their way to Australia. The first quit the ship when he got to Canada and the other just stayed in Australia....that was 1849....the rest of the family remained in Scotland and died as paupers. I descend from the one who came to Canada. He settled in the woods of Ontario Canada, opened up the first lumber mill and became wealthy. By the time he had acquired enough to send for his parents they had died....he lost track of his siblings. I have recently made contact however, with the descendants of the one who went to Australia. He ended up a sheep rancher who prospered as well.
The plot twist at the end of the video is really intriguing.
"also, im feeling tired"
I feel you
You completely ignored the main motivating factor for the lowland Scots, that of religion. Lowlanders were overwhelmingly Protestant with Presbyterian and Calvinist sensibilities, who wanted to drive Catholicism out of Scotland. As the more far-flung highland clans had retained Catholicism when the rest of the British Isles were being forcibly / enthusiastically converted they were seen as immoral and backwards by the Lowlanders, who took to the clearances like ducks to water. You blame the nobles but it was a Protestant Edinburgh lawyers such as Patrick Sellar who were the driving forces behind it.
Patrick Sellar was the factor to the Duke of Sutherland, not an Edinburgh lawyer.
Very nearly 100% correct. We even have a word for them "teuchters" pronounced chook-ter
@@stevenwilson5177 That's a word to mean someone from the Highlands though (and I always took it to mean someone who was a Protestant). Or, like my uncle always said "if you're not from Glasgow, you're a teuchter".
Fantastic content, yo!
Glad to get an explanation about something I had no idea happend
me too
1 more hour without A new HM video and I would have surely combusted
Some of these new patrons confuse the tried and true order of the past. Changing times
These are confusing times
As long as James Bissonett remains first.
I lost it when I heard the name "a man of culture"
I love your videos ! Please make a video about history of Iran/Persia !
Scots now:
*Teach me*
I'm always waiting for a History Matters' video on the Byzantine Empire or The Fall of Constantinople...
There are plenty of videos on it, just google them until then.
Fall of constantinople is literally among the first uploaded to the channel
Could you do more videos on ancient Europe?
Great twist of irony at the end. Poetic justice.
The animation of Reverend Robert Walker skating at the end is 10/10
My great grandmother was a member of the MacDonald Clan and there's an obelisk dedicated the them
1:25 what sheep!!!!! The Welsh would salivate over them
and Aberdonians
I mean that's basically a stereotype for any one that lives outside major towns so you can apply it to a lot of regions
New Zealand would like a couple too
@@european-one ikr, i have also heard it said about highlanders when i was in Scotland, especially Aberdonians
You passed on a terribly good opportunity of using the "and pray I don't alter it any further" line. 1:31
Great video
Finally a video about where I am from and live! 😄😄
Where you live?
@@DugrozReports the video is about the Scottish Highlands, so take a wild guess mate
@@DugrozReportsThe Sneck most likely
I am Scottish but I love how all the Americans are like my grans das pal maw was 0.00001% Scottish 😂
My grandma was 1/2 Irish.
If you can prove you're 25% Native American, you can get special benefits in the USA
And had a castle
My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandads sisters friend was a prostitute that serviced Robert the Bruce twenty minutes before the Battle of Bannockburn, calming his nerves and giving him the level head an resolve needed to win the day. You owe my family a great debt of gratitude.
very informative
Oh man, I listened to the end, that was brilliant! "And is-he?" If you know what I mean 🤣🤣
Damn, last time I was this early [creative ending]
LongDeadChannel Hadrian’s Wall had Romans on it!
Bonnie Prince Charlie was roaming Scotland!
Jaguar Motors was owned by an Englishman!
Last time I was this early, Rome was still a republic.
Scotland: *get evicted from their land, homes burned down and life’s ruined after rebelling against the English*
Ireland: First time?
I think the problem with a lot of Irish is they think they're somehow special victims when in reality this sort of stuff was happening in a lot of places.
The Irish did plenty of bad shit too whilst partaking in empire
Tyler Quandt Yeah I know that. It’s one of the reasons why Irish people are loved worldwide; we bond over how our nations got fucked over by the English.
Or I was using history to make a few jokes. Your choice 😊
Did you even watch the video? Or did you miss the part where he explains that the vast majority of the people who carried out the Highland Clearances were Scottish?
@@jackbarnes7432 I did; I liked the part where he pointed out that it had been a systemic attempt to wipe out clan culture following the Jacobite rebellions against the English :)
@@jackbarnes7432 Because the English changed the law allowing the clearances, took the land of the rightful owners and they granted the land to the loyal Scots, many of whom lived in England. Thus the new owners were legally allowed to chase off the previous owners because of English law.
I just learned something new today. Scotland has a very fascinating history.
TheConqueringRam and said history is still getting written! I’m a Scot myself and I love the Jacobite uprisings which caused these clearances (the event, not because the clearances happened because of them lol) the period was odd and the last struggle of the clans’ way of life. We nearly won too! Made it to Manchester! (Halfway down England)
@@reddyshreddy5050 A bit late, I know, but you made it further than Manchester! The Jacobites made it all the way to Derby in the Midlands.
Excellent 👍🏼
I would like to know more about my great grandfather .All I now is he is from the highlands and found his way to South Africa.
Probably would have something to do with the boer war
Can you make a video on the history of charterism
I can't believe I'd never heard of this. I'm English. Thanks for educating me.
Very entertaining!