Where Scotland Invented the World: Birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment...
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- If the Scottish Enlightenment invented the modern world then Bruce Fummey takes you to it's birthplace. This Scottish history tour guide takes you in and around Edinburgh's Royal Mile to tell tales of Adam Smith, David Hume, John's Coffee House and Enlightenment Scotland.
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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2:22 Voltaire was a good friend of Frederick II 'the Great' King of Prussia. He lived in his Potsdam palace Sanssouci for many years having his own specially designed room. Voltaire declared Frederick to be a 'philosopher king'. Fredrick himself was untypically fairly ambivalent towards religion and at one time declared that he welcomes everybody into Prussia as long as they contribute positively to society "...if they are Jewish we will build them synagogues and if they are Muslim we will build mosques".
PS: These days I live where Scottish engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch are buried: Birmingham which is clearly the best town or city in England.
PPS: What do you think of the crest of Clan Borthwick? Genuine question and I can't think of anybody more appropriate to ask.
The book “How the Scots invented the modern world” changed my outlook on Scottish history.
Loved the video 🏴👍🏴
Thanks Terrence. An enlightening book about the enlightenemnet indeed
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Keep informing, good sir. You have a talent for narration.
Wow, I've gained a new found respect for Scotland
I'm delighted
Some years ago I read the book "How the Scots Invented the Modern World". I started off as a skeptic, but in the end I had to admit that universal basic education and the Scottish Enlightenment have changed the world.
Amazing stories.. 👍👌 For a small country on this tiny island we have had a MASSIVE impact on the world..!! Great stories and information! Can't wait to binge watch 'hunners' more!! 😉👍👌
That's the spirit Paul
England is only about 15% larger i believe u night be talking about the population of England 55m Vs Scotland at 5.4m yes big impact ❤
It's not a small country it's close to having the same land mass as England yes it only has a 5.4m population the same as Norway England has 55m population 😂
My ancestor and namesake James Boswell is in this story. I got some pride about that. He was a great writer. And a man with vision. Tour To The Hebrides is a good one. Published in 1936 when it was found ..hidden away. He tours with Dr. Johnston the subject of a more famous biography also written by James as well.
Marvelous! I walked those same streets not long ago and never absorbed how vitally important those streets and places were to the modern world's society. Thank you.
Welcome
Outstanding work. How John Knox did what he did in one lifetime is beyond remarkable. Thank you Bruce!
You're welcome
Bruce is the best!!!
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I've got a book about the enlightenment...strangely enough by an american...so it was incredible to see for my first time, the actual rooms where conversations that made the modern world, took place.
Awesome Bruce...well done indeed.
Fascinating as always, what a fabulous place for a antiquarian book and coffee shop 😊
There's a suggestion
Amazing video would be an understatement,
Thanks for your videos. I learn so much on a country I love
Sorry for my english I am from Belgium
Thanks for taking the time Fabienne
Long time viewer first time commenter. Your videos are great
Thanks Bruce
Thank you
It's such a pleasure to see how you enjoy talking about your subject!
In 1970, I was aged 12, and travelled overnight on a coach from Essex in England with my dear mum to Ayshire to visit my father's mother who lived on the top floor of a tenanment building in Kilbirnie (Whitevale Terrace). There was a bed in the wall. Some of the bedding was real silk and there were big cupboards under the beds. And of course there were lots of stairs! I can't remember whether the toilet, which was shared by other tenants, was still at the end of the communal landing, or if a bathroom had been installed by this time. But I do remember seeing a large porcelain po in my Gran's flat! Two of the reasons why I remember this visit are the horrendous screech of brakes from the Glasgow buses, and the fact that no sooner had we got to my Gran's, she asked when we were going back! My poor mother! She was so tired bless her! The memories, eh!😊🙋🏴🇮🇪🙏
What a great narrator !! Great accent! 👍🏻🏴🇨🇦
Your insight is so appreciated. Helps to understand the history on a personal level.
Another quality video, very underrated channel
About time BBC Scotland have you a call.
I hear Mr Oliver has gone to pastures blue
This Gentleman is a Natural. Very knowledgeable. A National Treasure.
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Great talk.Thanks.
Thank you Bruce...I had never heard of ''the Coffee House'' before...enlightenment has come to me also.
Wonderful!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours 🎇😁🎇
my great grandfather had a coffee shop on the royal mile he used to work at the old Balmoral hotel (not the one thats there now ) in Princess street
To anyone watching this and thinking of visiting Scotland, contact Bruce and hire him for an interesting, amusing and a great time. Earlier this year Bruce took me around Robert Burns Museum, and despite the weather, it was an amazing time. I was born in England from a family from Inverness, I describe myself as a Sassenach from a long line of Teuchters, but Bruce really made a gracious host, warm and welcoming and he is really like you see him here, if you meet him you feel that you already know him. Go on dip your bread in and enjoy yourselves, you know it makes sense.
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Ah ! My home town ,love when I return home , love the people , love the humour
Fascinating 🎶😎🎶
Thanks
Another brilliant insight into our history! Thank you!
Superb as always 🏴👍
Thanks again!
Brilliant videos I would love to hear about The black Douglas.
Got to get round to it
Great video Bruce! My workshop made the new doors for the former coffeehouse. That big heavy door you opened from the close. Very cool. I supplied the doors but had no idea about the discovery on site! Thanks
Thanks Bruce. Really enjoyed this. I can see a themed restaurant or cafe with actors in the background enacting important discussions from the Enlightenment and possibly modern ones too. Can we go to see it?
Coffee shop but please no actors & theatrics let the discussions & creativity flow.. Don't forget JR Rowling wrote Harry Potter in an Edinburgh tea shop
Very informative Bruce, thank you🏴
You're welcome
Aye Bruce, there was also the Dumfriesshire blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan who invented the pedal driven bicycle in 1839. Macmillan's bicycle had a wooden frame and steel rimmed wooden wheels like those on waggons and coaches of the time. Macmillan is one of Scotland's unsung heroes as most people have never heard of him.
One of a long list
Brilliant video just to think the world changed 10 mins up the road from me!!
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Great video as usual !!!!! Thank you !!!!
I hope they restore it as a coffee house and meeting place to honour its history ! let the next generation do the same
@Info - The Lost Close soul cries for joy ! what was once lost has now been found and restored to former glories !
@Info - The Lost Close The Scottish Declaration of Independence? lol
@Info - The Lost Close har har har (Laughs in Scottish)
Wonderfull!
Wowwww. What a history. Thank you.
Mt home city. And a wonderful teller of stories.
Excellent video, thanks for this Bruce.
Thank YOU
Great content as usual my friend👍Would like to have your take on the Scots Irish. Thank you for your time💓🇫🇮💪🇺🇸🙏
Hey Casey. I tend to look for specific stories rather than broad groups. I' sure there are loads of stories though. If I can find good stories and relate it back to a home audience as well then I'll definitely cover
another amazing video thank you for sharing
Thanks for keeping watching
Very interesting! Thank you!
You're welcome Sherrie
aye Bruce great video, again. My da is nae doing great but your videos are getting him through the days. we both love them . take care mate
Ah wow, it really makes me feel good that I could help even a little
Love to hear of the "close" stories of Edinburgh. When in town a couple years ago, some were quite mysterious.
Did this no suit ye? czcams.com/video/tG8uQSSHG-w/video.html
Another interesting informative and entertaining video thank you.
Thanks Peter
Great video
Thanks Kevin
Great video and a great book! Always appreciate your work Bruce! Tapadh leibh!
'S e do bhaetha
'S e do bhaetha
Great video.
Thanks
My parents went to a trivial pursuit party, they won. People were surprised that my dad was so educated for a weilder.
We used to be an educated people... Now our children are just indoctrinated!
@@douglasherron7534 it's a crime
Never underestimate the working class of Scotland 👍🏴
Love all your videos, this one is super interesting. I read that book quite a while ago. I am working through your topics and I have still got many more to watch. Thank you and I appreciate all you are doing. I think a wee cup of coffee is coming your way. !
Good lass Elizabeth
Coffee is on its way. A’ the best.
American?
Referring to me? I am Scots.
I received that book for Christmas and have just finally had the chance to pick it up!
A good read indeed
Got a new follower sir!
Yay
Really interesting thank you!
My pleasure!
New subscriber here, really enjoying your content
Yay! Thanks Vince
Reading this now and been enjoying linking the info from two sources 🤣
I watch your channel I'm glad to see some one telling the history. I've been doing research of my family lots of the history is gone maybe you have some information I don't know
Found it. Yes, I've read "How the Scots Invented the Modern World". A good explanation of the Scottish Enlightenment, but not clear enough on how it began, how it the change was made.
😂😂 yeah that pish smell coming up those stairs from Waverley hit you like a ton of bricks. Always walked up that way going to work at gigs on cowgate. Great music venues like: Sneaky Pete’s, Bannermans, the Mash House, and my favourite: The Caves(stunning venue)
A fascinating video. I just became aquainted with your stuff. I like it. I find it fascinating that just as many of these enlightenment figure fought agaianst as for the jacobites. also that the fine way educated folks in Edinburgh speak is because folks use to take the pish out of Hume in london because they did not understand his accent, hanec for many years fine speaking baecame a priorit in Edinburgh schools.
Spot on description of the Mile during the festival. As a local, I always avoid it en route tae work 😂😂
I can imagine
Suggestion= dressing rooms for the fringe street performers, then just meet n greet for the new enlightenment for the remaining 11 months 😁 anyways I love my city I’m so proud to be an Edinburger! Even if Knox didn’t approve of my likes……..
That's a great idea!
Hi Bruce
I really enjoy your videos and went so far as to buy one of your hoodies from tee spring. I love the message on the front, but I'm somewhat confused by the message on the back, "Tioraidh an Drasda". Is it supposed to be laundry instructions?
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣Thanks for buying a hoodie Tiorraidh an drasda
Personally Joseph Black is my hero. Hard to have an I-phone without electricity and hard to generate electricity without the science of thermodynamics and chemistry even if its not fossil fueled.
Ace to know 👍
7:12 Adam Ferguson was so important he got mentioned twice lmao
I've just watched the video on the proscription of clan MacGregor at the hands of the Cambells and Calhoun. Can you talk about the Clan MacFarlane, also proscribed, with lands in north Loch Lomond?
Woah you were in Edinburgh?? Damn did I choose the wrong day to hit the beach
Absolutely love these videos Bruce , 's math sin!, SO coffee is the reason we got the enlightenment done then hahahaha BUZZIN
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Definitely ''smashing''...😉
Sometimes, I watch you twice🤣👍
Brilliant. I'll be honest sometimes it takes me more than one take to do it😂
Wow, again 😁
Fleshmarket Close?
More Rebus references!
I love this CZcams Channel.
I love Rebus, but it's just the close that best illustrates the point
@@ScotlandHistoryTours probably why Mr. Rankin chose it.
I'm English by accident of birth, although tracing my roots I find that my maternal grandfathers line Graham could be traced back to Scotland (still need to continue following this line) and my paternal grandfathers line Casey's traced back to Ireland. Lots of difficulty tracing this line as it's turns out my grandfather was adopted into the Casey family and was originally Garford I have not been able to find any records of adoption etc yet which makes tracing my Irish lineage very difficult.
My maternal grandmothers line I have been able to trace back to Yorkshire specifically tiplady hall where it seems one of my ancestors may have been a gardener that then fell in love with and married a daughter of the house (probably pregnant) who was then disowned for marrying below her station.
I say all of this to establish that I hold Scotland and Ireland as much a part of me as I do England the county of my birth.
I love Scotland and our shared history the good bits and the bad, and would be sad to see her break away but would support it vehemently.
I believe everybody should have self determination.
I just hope of the Scots do decide to go for independence they do so with the spirit of Adam Smith and the enlightenment and not with the spirit of the economically illiterate and authoritarian SNP they currently have in power.
I would like to see a free Scotland make a massive success of being free, the snp certainly appear to be a barrier to that from where I'm sat.
Let's see what the future holds
Scottish & free as a bird & happy to remain in 🇬🇧
So, do you have any information on the Bogle Tobacco trade in Glasgow?
No, but that sounds interesting
My family is originally from Scotland and they come to Toronto Canada after WW2 and my family is a part of the Bell clan
I was aware of the taverns, reading rooms, tea rooms and houses but not coffee houses. Maybe I just didn't pay attention, because because I don't care for coffee and almost never consume it. It's not that I thought people didn't consume coffee, I just thought it was like you can get tea or a fruit smoothie in a modern coffee shop, you could get coffee in a tea shop or reading room. Establishments that were specifically called coffee houses, I didn't think existed till much later. Learnin stuff.
It also lead to William Burke and William Hare.
😂😂 IMMIGRANTS !
Medical science, antibiotics and infection, operations and first caesarean birth in Glasgow Royal infirmary.
If only I had been taught Scottish History the way that you explain it. I was basically taught that to get on and improve my life I had no option bu to leave Scotland. As it turned out that advice was good. Pretty sad really.
I stayed and I think I got on fine😊
Hope you are ‘ Happy ‘where you are! 👍🏻🏴🇨🇦
I beg ye to keep making these
Please stop.
😂😂😂 Now that actually did make me laugh out loud
Don't worry Leo. In spite of the bloke downstairs I will
How about the border reivers or covenanters. All good reading and listening
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Well I've been in Mary Kings Close, but I never knew about this, just across the street. You forgot to spit, on the Heart of Lothian mate.
Cheers Steve aka Benjamin Button 😉
I didnae pass that. It's further up the street to the west of St Giles
@@ScotlandHistoryTours , thatsme schooled mate, Doh 😉
Bruce if you have a moment you might want to look at the Midlands Enlightenment at the centre of which were the Lunaticks (Lunar Society of Birmingham). There is some overlap with the Scottish one in the form of James Watt and James Keir but besides Charles grandad Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, abolitionist Josiah Wedgewood et al there was also an international contingent from France, Switzerland, Germany and in the form Benjamin Franklin the USA and at least two women: Susannah Wright and Anna Seward.
PS:If it wouldn't be for Birmingham I'd live in Scotland or back in Germany. Birmingham is extremely welcoming! According to Professor of Local History Carl Chinn to be a bona fide Brummie you don't have to born here, you just need to live here on your own free will.
Thank you, could you tell a story of William Smellie, (born 1740, Edinburgh, Scotland
Encyclopaedia Britannica fame and publication of Philosophy of Natural History. Has been described as a “precursor of Darwin”
...and publisher of Burns
Shrewd Willie Smellie to Crochallan came;
The old cock'd hat, the grey surtout the same;
Eh, how about a new John’s Coffee House?
To help spark the badly needed Enlightenment 2.
The World is waiting.
Mine’s a mocha with a slice of good old fashioned Scottish socialism.
And at the other end of that square is where John knox and about 30,000 other people are buried ;) creepy square that lol
Love that book, written by an American with a German name.
Aye, but his great great grandpappy was Jock Tamson
Does anyone know why I cannot share these videos to Facebook. I have many friends who would enjoy them .
You should be able to.
Scotland History Tours I used to do it all the time, now when I. Click ‘share’ I get several options but not Facebook.
@Scotland History Tours I Found out I have to use a different browser.
I thought the enlightenment started in Ecclefechan!
John Knox, started the Presbytearian denomination, correct?
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In any other video, I would have expected the trademark 'boo' on the reveal of the Adam Smith statue. What a dreadful legacy has been wrought by The Wealth of Nations.
Oppenheimer didn't drop the nuclear bomb
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I'm not so sure that Oppenheimer and the bomb are analogous to promoting a harmful ideology? It would seem to me that ideology directs the application of science. There are piles of well written ideas that have been discarded as bad or harmful!
A suggestion if you haven’t covered him already is James Clerk Maxwell.
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@@ScotlandHistoryTours thanks much appreciated really enjoying you channel from Aust.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours thanks again that was excellent.
It was James Clerk Maxwell whose work suggested that light was an electromagnetic wave and this discovery would serve as the basis for Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I was on my own at a quiz and the question was "Whose portraits did Albert Einstein have in his study?". I had no idea but immediately came up with Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell and after a little thought Michael Faraday. I mention this because Maxwell is the greates Scotsman that ever lived. The modern world we live in was kick started by him. I watched a program on T V and the science presenter was next to Maxwell's statue and nobody had heard of Maxwell and had no clue who he was. I'm a Sassenach and I was fuming.
Have you done a series on Rob Roy, another of Scotland's folk heroes?
I've just found your channel mate and can't praise it highly enough.
I'm watching your clip about The Enlightenment.
I've read before about the quote from Voltaire........
"The great French philosopher and historian Voltaire (1694-1778) said
‘We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation’.
At this time European thinkers challenged old ideas about almost every aspect of life.
They argued that the way forward was to use “reason” when seeking answers to questions.
People should not just accept what they were told, they should question ideas.
It was the beginning of the modern world as we know it."
ewh.org.uk/learning/classroom-resources/old-edinburgh/city-of-genius-the-scottish-enlightenment/
What do you think of the new 'hate crime' laws which allow the polis to arrest or caution you for things said or uttered in your own home?
Personally I see Scotland heading towards a tartan hued East German Stasi like state.
I'm interested in what your view is on this?
I personally believe freedom of speech and thought are hard won human rights.
Sometimes laws are well intended , but poorly worded
If you want the best for Scotland and are a Unionist you could start a Unionist Club or Society promoting the transparency of political parties financies.
You could start any group you want I reckon. I's happily support your transparency group, but I don't think transparency of political parties finances is a Unionist issue. Few parties are without sin there
Do you think they shipped hashish from the middle east as well as coffee?
Sorry man... what was the question again?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours
In Paris there was a social club named the Hashish Eaters Club with many famous intellectuals of it’s day as members. I was curious if Edinburgh had any familiarity with the drug during this time. If coffee, a new imported drug from the East could act as a catalyst for original and creative thought, then maybe hashish or cannabis also could have contributed?
What about a coffee shop?
Genius! I think that would actually work
You should do a pythonesque video what have the Scots ever done for us
Even today you can still get a whiff of pish! 😂 So true 😂
You know it
Do you teach history in school or college?
🤣🤣🤣No, I have no history qualifications whatsoever. I used to teach maths ad physics though
Wendy’s and White Castle sell “square hamburgers” . Must be some Scot influence but then how do we explain McDonalds?
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