The Highland clearances
by Prebble, John · first published 1963
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I agree with your sentiment, but historically your Grand-x father potentially got sold out in the Highland Clearances by his clan leader and then emigrated to Canada/US. This made way for sheep (lots of Scotland is still relatively underpopulated) and the head of the clan probably blew the money on a town-house in London.…
on “Facebook's underclass: staffers enjoy perks, contractors barely get by” ↗At this point we have to start distinguishing between the political entities and the people. English dominated Scotland Apart from the ban on Gaelic and Highland dress for a while, and the Highland Clearances? The latter are not entirely simple, as plenty of the landowners in question were also Scottish. If I may paste a paragraph from Wikipedia: <blockquote> With the development of pseudoscientific racist…
The desire of some Scots to rewrite the Highland Clearances and other nastiness as being perpetuated by the English is really quite ugly, a cowardly refusal to stand up to the past, and the worst kind of romanticism of history. I've read quite a few similar sentiments…
…held by a list of aristocratic families" is not at all surprising when you consider that those families were given the land from its original owners and occupants at gunpoint by the government. - the Highland Clearances In short, the right to roam pre-existed; it was only removed by extremely questionable action; and the minority who owned the land fought access to it. (For the situation in England&Wales, start at…
on “How the British aristocracy preserved their power” ↗…"Donald McLeod's Gloomy memories in the Highlands of Scotland" - a first hand account of the Clearances: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Donald-McLeods-memories-Highlands-S... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
on “Who Owns England?” ↗