Highland Clearances and The Duke of Sutherland

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In Highland Clearances and The Duke of Sutherland Scottish history tour guide Bruce Fummey tells one of the saddest Tales from Scotland's History. The Highland Clearances in Sutherland showed the worst excesses of human insensitivity and loss
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@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 года назад

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@Xacute00 2 года назад

Hey, I loved the video I have always wanted to hear some stories of the land clearance my clan is the MacDougalls we were forced to leave Scotland and settled in Canada in Nova Scotia and founded Inverness. The highlanders here still miss home and we all have our stories we tell at the games, I wish a situation would happen in Scotland like Israel's where if Scotland gets their freedom they will allow anyone who can prove their Scottish ancestry citizenship.

@brodie2711 3 года назад

My Dad was Scottish and my Mum was English and my dad would tell me of the clearances and of course, it made me angry to hear about these injustices and you can imagine how my blood boiled when my sister researched our family tree and found out how my English ancestors were booted off the land and whole villages were destroyed on the whim of the aristocracy, often to improve the vista from their castle. It's not a Scottish V English story but a Rich V the poor. Isn't it always.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

I specifically said in the video that it wasn't about nationality. I do get frustrated when folk from either direction make Clearances a Scottish English thing. They do it about Culloden as well. It's like it doesn't matter what I say in the video, people already have their preconceptions and they just replace my words with the ones they want to hear

@bertiescunsbutch9323 3 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Think Stephen was agreeing with you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Ah shit, did I screw up there?

@brodie2711 3 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours yes I was totally agreeing with you. Love your channel

@arx3516 3 года назад

Look at medieval history, royal and nobles waging wars to increase their possessions, ignoring the suffering and devastation that their wars brought on the lands and people.

@FiuranBand 3 года назад

This is essentially how my family and our whole line ended up in Canada. Excellent series! 'S math a rinn thu a charaid!

@annbush1826 3 года назад

and how my grandfather Farquhar MacRae and his mother came to America, He was 12, they came in steerage, and he went to work on the docks in New York, while she was a seamstress.

@kimheffernan5511 2 года назад

Mine too I’m a MacRae from Canada

@badxxxmonkey5541 2 года назад

Mine ended up in the states.

@trythinking6676 2 года назад

Mine was press ganged into the British army, stationed in Canada, deserted and settled in Michigan before meeting Joseph Smith. Thats how my family line comes from Utah.

@kimheffernan5511 2 года назад

I'm still trying to trace mine back to Scotland. Unfortunately I am a descendant of one of the many Alexander MacRae's in Scotland in the 1800's lol

@johngraham8893 3 года назад

Many of the crofters went to New Zealand and became sheep farmers.This was just before refrigeration was invented.Soon New Zealand mutton was exported to Britain and it put the likes of the Duke of Sutherlands' large sheep estate out of business

@pammotorsport9743 3 года назад

Now that’s Karma.

@roberttamatea1996 3 года назад

Lol im from NZ

@SuperKiwifella 2 года назад

Yep a Sutherland here , My GreatGrand Parents came here to NZ with their familys (who also included on the trip were members the Mouat family - My Greatgrandmothers side) all the way from a tiny Island in Shetland (UNST) ) - NZ has many early settlers from Scotland who took a long Voyage to find better opportunities than the limited choices of say Fishing ,Shucking seashells or basket weaving. I'm gratefull they did! , Shout out to any other Scottish Kiwis ,all relatives (close or distant) decended from the terrible Highland Clearnces & a Shout out to the proud People of UNST in the Shetlands :)

@101MRSPICE 2 года назад

John Graham are you not the Marquess of Montrose 🤔

@jeremypollock2262 3 года назад

Bruce, masterfully done. My entire bodies worth of hair stood on end. This inferno of rage burns inside every scot, if only they hear the story.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

I thank you sir

@peterfoster8004 3 года назад

This is an extremely thought provoking video. I'm English and have no connection to Scotland except a love of its folk music but I've spent my working life on the land and through this video I really feel the pain of these poor crofters. Thank you.

@ajrwilde14 2 года назад

you know it happened in England too

@peterfoster8004 2 года назад

@@ajrwilde14 Oh yes.

@euan4465 2 года назад

It was genocide against the Scottish by the brittish government, tbe Irish potato famine was as if not worse as on the orders of the brittish state in Westminster they decided to go into Ireland and remove by force ALL of its potato stocks that had been allocated so the population would not starve to death. Make no mistake this was done deliberately and very knowingly of the consequences, to this day there has never been both in relation to the highland clearances (let's just call it what it is GENOCIDE) and to the Irish potato famine (GENOCIDE) an apology from the brittish state

@michaelconnell9274 2 года назад

This is a great series. I listened to a podcast from an American Gaelic Society that discussed this. Culloden was the testing ground for the French-Indian (7 Year's War). It also Anglisized the Scots and the colonists with the same mentality as you mentioned with our native Americans here, not just the Trail of Tears. Thank you for bringing this to light. Tapadh leibh Ollaimh.

@ronbarnes1022 2 года назад

Absolutely Brilliant mate. Nowadays there's much made of other landowners who near bankrupted themselves helping their tenants stay on their land till they couldn't afford it any more. Which is detracting from the worst acts of inhumanity like you're describing

@benitasteffan7404 3 года назад

You have such a way of telling a story. You can feel the passion in the words you speak. I love the Scottish. I swear it’s past life thing! 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I was born in Italy!🤣🤣🤣. Wish I had you in history class for a teacher, you make the past come alive,

@allan3737 3 года назад

The whole idea of “improving the land” is as far from the truth as it gets. Filling land full of grazers like sheep and deer destroyed land that people had previously managed. No apex predators to limit numbers just animals that decimate landscapes and remove all hope of reforestation. Another fantastic look into our history Bruce. You over the BBC lackey any day of the week.....

@grahamt5924 3 года назад

@@johndoe-ss9bz it's all ancient history now.

@therealrobertbirchall 3 года назад

@@johndoe-ss9bz thet did it in England as well Cumbria and Northumberland were massively depopulated. To say nothing of the enclosures

@ZestySea 2 года назад

Good point - this is an issue in other places as well - seems as though clearing the land for sheep brought wealth for the English and they created an empire to do more of it.

@ZestySea 2 года назад

@@grahamt5924 I don’t agree - I think these stories are important. Our history tells us what really happened - not a monument on the hill and a fancy castle

@grahamt5924 2 года назад

@@ZestySea Yes, but it is ancient history. It happened long before anyone who is alive today was born, and so long ago that it happened before the parents of anyone alive today was born. There is noone today who feels the trauma of what happened. It makes it as far away as the sacking of Rome or the destruction of Jerusalem.

@pvtiron 3 года назад

Bawbag with a smartphone and a tripod! that did make me laugh...but as a fellow scot we were taught virtually nothing about our own country in secondary school. Keep up this great stuff , people need to know how we got to here.

@aaronedwardson7043 3 года назад

I'm from caithness. We got taught all about the clearances in primary school.

@pvtiron 3 года назад

@@aaronedwardson7043 good for you , I don’t know what era you went to school and it was state or private . But during my time from 80 to 90 , it most certainly was not. Romans , ww2 , that’s the history we got. Nothing about Scotland in secondary unless you took history as on O level, or went a read it for yourself. Same with anything like American history(which I managed to pass a mock citizenship test for lmao).

@aaronedwardson7043 3 года назад

I went to school 90s until 2000. But I have noticed that my kids currently in school haven't been taught about it.

@georgefuters7411 3 года назад

@@pvtiron same in the '60s, Romans (who barely set foot in Scotland), world wars (which England won!!! apparently!!!) and, of course, the Empire and Victoria. Thank god for Bruce 😂🤣😂👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tamferguson3891 3 года назад

@@pvtiron Same ... High School from 88-94 .. WW2 & The Roman Empire. Pretty sad tbh.

@williamsutherland1575 3 года назад

My forefathers on my fathers side were cleared out from Strathnaver, they fled Sutherland and headed west and the around the north and eventually settling in Caithness. They became crafters/ fishermen.

@manekakapoor1612 3 года назад

Growing up in Scotland for a while and my maternal grandmother was Scottish, I knew these stories, but I love the way they are presented. Keep up the good work.

@anthonymcnab9784 2 года назад

Love you Bro 😎 keep our families story alive!

@whiskey1737 3 года назад

As a descendant of Clan Gunn I now understand much more of the reasoning behind our choices at that time. Thank you for the history lesson.

@maryellencook9528 3 года назад

@Whiskey: I agree with you. As a Deputy Commissioner of the Clan Gunn Society of North America here in Texas, I can better understand our clan motto: Aut Pax aut Bellum.

@shaywilliamson421 3 года назад

The Gunns are survivors. Always have been and always will be. My branch of the family have been in Northumberland now for about 270 years, and we're ready to come home. Aut Pax Aut Bellum

@sophisticatedbear3374 2 года назад

Gunn on me Ma's side...Macpherson on my Da's

@susanmask4635 Год назад

Very touching. Made me cry.

@chelseygable289 2 года назад

I love your videos so much. My grandmother was the first person in my family to come to the United States. So, I was born in the states but half of me will always belong to Scotland. My grandmother died before I could ask her questions about where we are from so thank you for giving me a way to learn more about where I come from.

@gregorytaylor3146 3 года назад

Hi Bruce! Thanks for starting this channel, I'm learning a lot. My family is of Scots extraction and I love history and the way you present it as a Storyteller.

@andrewrenwick6485 3 года назад

Very emotive, and heart wrenching….. my ancestors are more from the borders, but I love the highlands… we used to fish on the River Carron by Ardgay…..at the top end of Strath Carron is the old hamlet of Croich…. In the tiny church there is a stained glass window where the prayers and fears of the cleared crofters have been scratched into the glass…. As they took shelter…. As their homes were burned.

@raydriver7300 Год назад

That really struck home. You are so good at what you do. As always, Bruce, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing. 🌞

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

Thanks Ray

@rosemarydouglass3744 3 года назад

another excellent video thank you I grew up in easter ross before coming to america and know the story of the clearances all too well. and have visited the castle.. my grandfather was stationed at the castle in 1914 with the seaforth highlanders --my grandmother and Mom were given quarters in golspie which we also visited

@sionnachmacbradaigh1010 Год назад

"Maybe I'm just a bawbag with a smartphone and a tripod.". The commentary is absolutely brilliant.

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

😜

@cathyscribner7798 Месяц назад

Our Matheson/MacDonald/Gray/Mackay ancestors were evicted from their ancestral farms/homes in Straths Fleet/Carnaig near Lairg in Sutherland and likely farther north, before emigrating to Canada.I've wandered the ruins of their settlements several times and am learning Gàidhlig to honor their memory. Without their incredible strength and mental/emotional/spiritual endurance , I would not be here today. None of us would be.

@brentwallace7096 3 года назад

thank you for telling this story, Bruce. it's not one we always here about here in the U.S.. none the less, it should be told.

@HarcusCGTV 3 года назад

Great stuff mate, love from a Scot now living in Vietnam.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Hey, I love it when a new country gets added to the list. Welcome on board

@ryanll7312 2 года назад

I’m an American Scot who uses your videos to learn about my heritage. Thanks for the hard work.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Brilliant

@clydedigital 4 года назад

You're good at this stuff. All the best.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 года назад

😎Thanks. Spread the word

@plainsimple442 2 года назад

Bruce, Most of my ancestors immigrated to New England in the 1600s, but more recent Scottish ancestors came during the Clearance. Such a dreadful event. Cheers to your work Bruce, Rick

@thatsme9875 Год назад

Bruce, this sad story continues to bring tears to my eyes. My own ancestors fled to Australia in 1840 for precisely those reasons. Coincidently, in 2017 I visited Scotland, and went to Elgin Cathedral. In the graveyard lies the carved tombstone of "the Factor Patrick Sellar". On the day I visited, his carved name was covered with a large gob of fresh spittle. It seems that someone in Elgin still remembers and detests his actions!. I'd like to meet that person and buy him/her several large whiskies.

@brianchar6912 4 года назад

Great content delivered professionally, my friend.. I am from Canada and there is no teaching of history. I wish it to be known how the Scots arrived here in Canada. Scottish history is not celebrated. We are overwhelmed with the stories of recent immigration. My wish is the history of ALL Canadians is heard

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 года назад

Aye, I have in mind to do some Scots in Canada stuff in future. If I'm able to make the channel permanen I'm sure I'll get round to it

@repubilican 3 года назад

Dude. Go to Nova Scotia and cape breton

@deeboo519 3 года назад

I just did a Family Research for a Canadian Family tracing back their Scottish Heritage.... Itssss sooooooo interesting

@johnjiv5790 3 года назад

Try and source a copy of "The Scotch" by Canadian Economist and Statesman John Kenneth Galbraith , it's all about his upbringing in Ontario which had been mostly populated by Scots-Gaelic speaking Highlanders . It's a great read !

@rpm1796 3 года назад

Ring your nurse. My family arrived in Canada in 1790. Scottish history in Canada is more than well documented..& easy to find if you bothered...I've been reading it since I was a kid. There are more Highland Regts in Canada than Scotland. The difference is we don't endlessly go on whining & complaining, demanding apologies and cash for 275-year-old wrongs. You will never hear a Canadian of Scot's bluud, go around proclaiming that we are 6th generation ''survivors'' of Culloden & the Clearances.👶💦

@heatherstewart2901 3 года назад

Thank you so much for your work, I enjoy your presentations. My great grandmother's line was cleared from there. I would love to visit again.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Do it!

@ceeceesyl1097 2 года назад

Ty for all the work you do. I am Amerian of Scottish descent. I have learned so much about Scotland and my ancestors thu your videos.

@PaulEcosse 4 года назад

Oof, nice wee dig at the end there on a certain somebody. 😂

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 года назад

I did it for you 😜

@johnbinnie5697 4 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I'd love to know?

@carlystrang5101 3 года назад

@@johnbinnie5697 Google Neil "Bawbag" Oliver, Highland Clearances.

@margaretnicol3423 3 года назад

The difference it makes when you're bribed - sorry, I mean - paid by the BBC!!!

@daveleddy1539 3 года назад

Oliver did a talk in my hometown in Ireland. He got grilled on his stance on independence. I was delighted

@FairnessFobe 3 года назад

Thanks Bruce. I love hearing your disatations. It's about my forebears also.

@jimsbooksreadingandstuff 3 года назад

I'm currently reading "The Keening" by Margaret Pinard that follows a family cleared from their ancestral home on the Isle of Mull, who seek employment in the newly industrialising Glasgow before sailing off to Nova Scotia to make a new life for themselves. So often the few have oppressed the many in history but it is the few that also pay the writers of history so they shine in a better light. Not as the greedy and at times homicidal maniacs they were.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

An excellent point

@kirksutherland7003 2 года назад

On my dad side my great,great,great grandfather Alexander Sutherland a farmer born in Wick, Caithness in 1809, landed up in Oxford County, Upper Canada, which is now Ontario. There has never been a story attached to how or why he had crossed the Atlantic and landed in Ontario, but it's pretty obvious. They were all Church of Scotland to the hilt, but didn't seem to carry on with Scottish tradition or even identification. That side were essentially Canadian British subjects and loyal to the empire. I seem to get my Scottishness (if I can say) from my dad who resurrected it in his adult life. He abandoned his Orange upbringing and embraced his lineage. My mom's Dumbarton to the hilt so that too introduced me to my bloodlines and heritage!

@RamboTuRkEy2224 3 года назад

Never stop making videos my friend. So Informational and well put together, I will subscribe to Paetron or anything you got to help you continue making these. Cheers and well wishes from Maryland

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Hey, that's great. You're a star. I have a Patreon page at www.patreon.com/ScotlandHistoryTours

@brucestevenson8797 2 года назад

They were cleared as you say. I know I've mentioned my father's side of the family before in comments on your videos, today you touched my Mother's the Gunn's. I've visited the ruins of a clearance village above the coastal cliffs. You have again said it true, humanity or in this case inhumanity. Thank you Bruce for continuing to make these videos even if you are just a bawbag with a smartphone and a tripod. Keep up the good work.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

I've got a camera noo 😎

@brucestevenson8797 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours it's still a good line to throw in though Bruce.

@randomrosie2599 2 года назад

This was awesome. Thanks so much.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

You are so welcome!

@nancyholcombe8030 3 года назад

While I love your wit and humor I can't express how much I appreciate that you treated this particular subject with the solemnity it deserves. While many Scots had already come from the Highlands to the Appalachian/Blue Ridge mountain area before the Clearances to find freedom in a land so similar to what was once their own, the Clearances had such a profound effect on the Southern United States that almost three quarters of it's current population can trace a part of their ancestry to Scotland directly. More to the point, they can be traced to a highland clan. Thats millions of people, people! THAT'S only PART of what the Clearances did! While I am thankful that I have both Scottish and Scot-Cherokee blood in me, I was taught by one family that they escaped tyranny and by the other one that they thought they had found a mountain paradise until the US turned into England and took away their homes again! I'm hoping that this video travels far and wide over this planet. One, because you deserve it. Two, because it may make people think about how often we repeat bad history. Surely, one day, we can do better for all.

@Blackfive1945 2 года назад

I started listening to you yesterday on the Jacobites and now subscribed . Excellent rendition . I got a lot of this at school in fifties but you have taken it a new dimension .How you can remember it all .......very good . Thank you for your information . Roger

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Welcome aboard Roger!

@staytuned2L337 2 года назад

Just looking at the scenery behind you...wow. It's so picturesque for a hot second I thought "well that's a beautiful painting" 😅

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

😂

@jillvanwormer8504 2 года назад

Great, heartfelt video. Astute comparison to Native Americans being driven from their lands. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@alistairmanson5082 3 года назад

I’m from caithness, due to its flat landscape, especially for the highlands I’m intrigued as to how it effected my county and if the effects were anywhere near as grave as for Sutherland.

@richardwhite2629 2 года назад

Thanks!

@normsutherland3776 Год назад

It is heartwrenching to read and discuss the Highland Clearances. I am a 6th cousin , once removed of the current Duke of Sutherland, Alaistair St.Clair Sutherland . On a heritage visit to Scotland, which obviously included Dunrobin, I was told , partially in jest, I believe, by a tourist guide that we, the Sutherlands were the most hated people in Northern Scotland. He was in Inverness. Too bad about the clearances, but I can understand. GEORGE LEVESSON GOWER deserved to be hated and his statue reviled. But I am proud of all the true Sutherlands that came before him. LONG LIVE SUTHERLAND "SANS PEUR"

@MrSinclairn Год назад

Are you of the Duffus or Forse branches?

@normsutherland203 Год назад

@Nicholas Sinclair I am from the Uppat line of Sutherlands starting with Lt. Col James Sutherland 1726-1789, whose son migrated to St.Vincent in the Caribbean and became involved in the slave trade..Another dark part of our history, but one from which I am a by-product of

@MrSinclairn Год назад

@@normsutherland203 Very interesting,as I am aware of Lt-Col.James Sutherland from overall FH;I am from the Lybster line of Henry Sinclair(c.1595-1614),illeg. half-brother of the notorious George 'The Wicked',5th Earl of Caithness.Henry married a Janet Sutherland,and 3-4 gens. down,a lineal cadet followed the same route as yours,ending up,as a slaveowning planter in Jamaica and started a line which returned to Britain during the Empire Windrush era! Although SIr Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun wrote disparingly about our clan,as he was a lifelong enemy of the 5th Earl of Caithness;generally the main membership of our respective clans were tolerant of each other;the main fault-lines being our leadership,ie the Caithness Earls v. (post-1513) Gordon Earls of Sutherland!😏 P.S. Note your clan leaders are split into 2 peerage titles: the present Earls/clan chiefs(rep. by the JANSON family) and the Dukes(rep. by the LEVESON-GOWER line). 👍

@normsutherland203 Год назад

@@MrSinclairn You know your stuff. Excellent. Thanks

@MrSinclairn Год назад

@@normsutherland203 👌👍

@bjrngumundsen939 2 года назад

Again a brilliant video.

@allaboutrussia2022 3 года назад

Loving the content thus far, it's been very well researched and delivered beautifully. A question, though; in the clearances how *did* the Highlanders manage to emigrate to the Americas, or even to others parts of the British Isles? From the story I get the impression they were left with nothing - absolutely nothing. So how did they afford passage? Thank you in advance for the answer, Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Varied. The first to leave were the taksmen (generalisation I know). They were kind of middle ranking guys who would have had a few quid but not needed when trying to get rid of a layer of management. Some got assisted. Some put themselves into indentured servitude. There will be a hundred different tales

@augnkn93043 2 года назад

It’s bollocks.

@alanmorton1370 2 года назад

Thank you for a very moving account of the Clearances. When you're next in Glasgow, make sure you visit the Lismore (Lias Mor) bar on Dumbarton Road, Partick. It has a urinal dedicated to the Duke of Sutherland and Patrick Sellar where customers are invited to pay them the respect they deserve. A fitting tribute.

@larryjeffryes6168 Год назад

Thank you

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

You're welcome

@jamesmacdonald1 2 года назад

Well done pal. Edinburgh loves you

@georginaholt9416 2 года назад

Great video. Loved it.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Thank you!

@camdoune6020 2 года назад

Thank you again for a superb presentation. Very well done. (I've never liked that statue at the top of Ben Bhraggie or what it stands for.)

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@rsfaeges5298 3 года назад

The video of yours which i watched previously had me laughing; this one is quite the other thing. Your wit tickles my mind; your humanity touches my soul. AND your account of the power of foreign words of foreign law on pieces of paper -- in the shadow of the State's violence, of course -- says, again, that you glom social history, even if you're not a "Historian". Blessings to you and yours, 🙏 & 🖖

@Nick-bp7jf 3 года назад

Hi. Just recently started to watch your videos. They are outstanding and a credit to you. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Thanks Nick

@Nick-bp7jf 3 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I am binge watching your videos. I thought i knew a little about Scottish history. You made me realise just how little knowledge i really have. Only a matter of time before a TV channel picks you up.

@petert9224 3 года назад

The acts of enclosure had much the same effect in England . It was about removing the poor from the land . As the industrial revolution demanded labour , the easiest way was to depopulate the land . This also went hand in hand with transportation to Australia . While this is interesting it represents only a part of the picture and not the whole . The depopulation of the land allows the very rich to build the great estates of the l Georgian/period , while it force’s the poor to the factories and mines of the early industrial revolution . It’s just one big land grab. But here is the thing . It still happens . In Africa/ South America . Now it is multinational’s who buy deeds ,remove people who have owned the land for generations . So before you buy soya or fruit farmed in Africa and flown in by supermarkets out of season . Ask yourself ? Who paid the price?

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

😥

@janice506 4 месяца назад

Difference being the English weren’t banned from wearing tartan & kilts & also our language too we weren’t allowed to be Scottish in Scotland

@EnglishgirlHere 5 месяцев назад

Even though my family left Scotland (Orkney) 60-ish year ago is still feel like a Sutherland and honour the name.

@rabcspaniel5679 Год назад

Going to Orkney by bus we were told the locals called the statue a wee manny on a hill. he was still despised in 2018.

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

Indeed

@heatherhinde6544 3 года назад

Bloody brilliant!

@arcboutant Год назад

In tears , good man . Keep up the good neutral HONEST work.

@chrism.2231 3 года назад

Well done. Thank you.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@vickiwood2739 2 года назад

Thanks

@johnthorburn1913 3 года назад

One of my biggest criticisms of my school days, is that we were never taught about the history of our own country. We spent time learning about Henry VIII’ wives, the Norman invasion, etc., but nothing on Scottish history. I’ve dabbled on and off over the years, but your videos have rekindled my interest. Trying to watch one a day. Refreshing approach to history, a lot better than that from some I could mention from the TV. If you ever get the time, could you have a look at the Irish in Lochee. Big give away there as to where I’m from. I’ll bribe you later with a contribution to your channel. Cheers!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

Thanks John. Can you send your suggestion to requests@scotlandhistorytours.co.uk

@Backs4more 3 года назад

I think you will find the Normans had a massive influence on Scottish history. It was a Norman family here in Aberdeenshire who helped Robert the Bruce, himself of Norman decent, and who received land and riches in return.

@craigrobertson4994 Год назад

Pretty sickening really like a lot of the events in our history it seems, rather sad, it’s amazing any of us are still here 😢

@robmiller1964 2 года назад

Thank God many ended up here in New Zealand; and strangely enough the McKenzie Country and Central Otago, Southland, Eastern and South Otago, North Otago and South Canterbury are predominately Scottish Settlements!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Yep, been there. Love it

@marypetrie930 2 года назад

Tell that to the Maoris!

@Bashkir097 5 месяцев назад

One of my Indigenous cousins remarked that if any people knew what the Indigenous people went through in Canada it was the Scots. Well, some Scots - Canada's residential school system was designed and implemented by men with Scottish names. As you say, "not about nationality, but humanity." Not sure how many of my ancestors were driven off their land because they were worth less than sheep. I hope to walk there some day.

@johnmcleod8788 Год назад

Man's inhuman treatment of his fellow man is sad to say the least, my ancestors left Scotland's ise of Skye in 1837 for Australia I feel sad that they left but glad they did otherwise I would not be here, thank you Bruce your stories are valuable. John McLeod

@alastairwright2929 Год назад

The estate was the property of Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland, she was a scot, and was complicit in the clearances. My 3rd great grand father James Sutherland became a fisherman due to the clearances his plight. James Sutherland, brother William, brother-in-law's Robert and Alexander Forbes and cousins William and Donald Sutherland drowned at sea. On the afternoon 27th Feb 1835, several small boats went off to the fishing grounds of Moray Firth and continued to fish till 8 o'clock, when the wind suddenly came to blow a heavy gale from the North West right off shore accompanied with thick wet snow. They immediately made towards the shore and continued to pull against the storm, in a state of almost complete exhaustion. One of the boats from Latheronwheel is yet unheard of and as four days have elapsed, all hope of the safety of the crew has completely vanished. It is conjectured that the boat must have swamped in attempting to set the sail. Two of the Sutherlands were married and have left widows and young families and the other two were chief support of aged and infirmed parents. Thus have perished in the night a father and son, four brothers and three cousins, leaving behind five widows six aged and helpless parents and great number of unprotected orphans. It further adds that the herring fishing of the previous year had been an almost total failure, making the remaining family members 'doubly destitute'. James Widow, Elliza Sutherland nee Forbes of Latheronwheel, receiving regular payments of 5 shillings in poor relief each year from 1839-1844.

@interested-q4d 3 года назад

i went to dunrobin castle in 2009. i was immediately suspicious about the luxurious gardens and their provenance. you find similar places in ireland. one such place is boyle in roscommon. a big garrison of a town with an enormous castle.no soldier s though no mystery there either. shadows of empire.

@marcforsyth101 Год назад

Another Brilliant video, bruce. Been watching for a while now and just found out u know my mum from glover street 😂 small world

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

Yeah, I grew up there

@joemdee 3 года назад

You wouldn’t have much of a harvest in the fields in Kildonan. The clearances were dreadful as were the results of 5he Acts of Enclosure which affected the landless agrarian poor in England. This was a class issue rather than a race issue. Unfortunately nationalists convert this into an anti-English issue and it segues into the politics of grievance as promoted by the SNP.. This whole story was told very well in the 1980s in the play the Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil which was actually screened on national television. The issue is really about exploitation of the poor and the weak whether they are highlanders, weavers, coal miners or the agrarian poor or First Nation Americans, the Maori or Australian aborigines. The challenge is to create a world where this exploitation and abuse of power cannot happen.

@shelleygibbons1065 3 года назад

So we'll done ! Gut wrenching

@harshbutfair8993 3 года назад

Excellent vid again, you should be scooped up to be a presenter on mainstream TV. You can pretty much always tell if a video is good by the likes/dislikes ratio 238 (239 after my like) /1 as I write, you pretty much just don't see that sort of ratio anywhere, phenomenal. Talking about the advantage of having an empire, as you rightly said troops could be brought from one part of it to another, and would have little issue suppressing the people there, as they might have experienced it in reverse before. Not only was the kingdom of Dal Riata forgotten that linked Ireland and Scotland, to this day, little thought is given to the fact that Scottish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic and Irish (I'm Irish btw) are basically sister tongues derived from Old and Middle Irish, but AFAIK, and correct me if I'm wrong, there is little cooperation between the 3 languages to help them become stronger living languages. I'm sure in Scandinavia where you have the sister tongues of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian that it helps keeps these languages strong. Gaelic has 3 languages, not just one, the bonds should be renewed and expanded in my opinion to encourage anyone from any background to take an interest in our struggling native languages.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

I think there is some work with Scots ad Irish Gaelic. Sabhal Mor Ostaig has had cross cultural conferences ad I think there's a meeting group in Glasgow. We have a big challenge here with getting traction. You've done better over your way. When I lived on Isla I noticed that their Gaelic was closer to yours, as opposed to the Gaelic of Lewis or Skye. The problem is that there are so few speakers left

@mikeakachorlton 2 года назад

Just as well you mentioned that this wasn't a matter of English v Scottish but of a lack of humanity on the part of some of those in power, given that this all really started with James VI and the statutes of Iona. It was a Scottish king who decided to 'civilise' the highland Scots, and over the next century a wedge was driven between the clan leaders and the clan so that they became more landlord and tenants. This sets the scene for ending of Tacksmen and for the Enclosures Act that was affecting farming communities across the country to be extended into the highlands in the manner it was. However, you need to bear in mind that highland farming was alway precarious and famines were common. Some landlords genuinely thought they were doing good by forcing their tenants to croft or fish, or to emigrate to find work elsewhere, and by putting the land to more profitable use (for them). This also addressed their need for money, which again has its roots in the changes forced on them by the Statutes. Let's also remember that when the Potato Famine reached Scotland in the 19C, some of those landlords whose families had been instrumental in the clearances bankrupted themselves supporting their tenants. This is not to minimise the distress and suffering that occured when people are ripped from the land they have lived on for generations or excuse the appalling behaviour of some; just to give a little balance.

@SofiaBerruxSubs 2 года назад

This reminds me of the trail of tears in America. I have scotish and Irish ancestors.

@henrimacaulay835 2 года назад

Powerful - especially the ending. Neil Oliver is a disgrace...(I said it for you Bruce)

@johnshields3658 3 года назад

Have you got a video on the Lowland Clearances? Ppl tend to ignore, but in terms of sheer numbers, they're very important

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

I know, I know. I have mentioned a couple of times in passing.

@lawrenceburchett7411 3 года назад

My Gunn ancestors were part of that shameful history, my Grandmother told me the story how her great grandfather was run off the Gunn land at bayonet point . The Sutherland name was used as a curse in my family for generations.

@alicefreist318 2 месяца назад

"Just a bawbag with a smartphone and a tripod" -- that is utterly ridiculous nonsense! As for "more important" commentators, that's quite a subjective judgment, isn't it? Truth: your stories are well researched and lovingly presented with humor and intelligence. Each and every production I've watched has been a delight, in addition to being informative. Your focus on what actual living was like for actual people breathes vitality into what could be just dried ink on drier pages, like those "more important" people emit. They can stuff it! Thank you, and please don't stop!

@theophrastusbombastus1359 2 года назад

I must've obvs watched these videos out of order Because this is the Patrick Sellers we were taught about in school! Meaning: the other videos focused on something different and he was a footnote... A "Highland Clearances" playlist would maybe be pertinent But I can't help but feel that it already exists, and I'm simply behind the times lol All the same: this is good Brucey-Boy, and hopefully we can keep this up.

@charlieharris2824 2 года назад

Our families originated from Scotland, Aberdeen and Blantyre We are proud New Zealanders with Scottish heritage

@OldestLady 5 месяцев назад

My heart is broken for these people. As a human race, will we ever learn?

@MrZomg17 3 года назад

The Massacre of Glencoe was just as atrocious as The Clearances.

@julianshepherd2038 4 года назад

Evicted because capitalism.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 года назад

Indeed

@flake452 4 года назад

No capitalism is about respecting private property, state theft is colonialism or socialism.

@fearnpol4938 4 года назад

Flake452 utter drivel, this was imperialism and capitalism did all to do with socialism, hell the highland was/is bloody social creature and the system of kith and kin is all about society.

@khumphrey2231 4 года назад

Capitalism is about a person doing their own hard work, then improving their life based on what THEY have done. And, most capitalists then reinvest that money into other things, many of which supply employment for more looking to improve their lot.

@khumphrey2231 4 года назад

Evicted because of old fashioned greed and sin.

@Athabina 10 месяцев назад

Scottish history was so tragic and filled with oppression; so sad 😩

@edwardrowland1853 3 года назад

I see you've chosen an Englishman, married to a Scots heiress, to represent the land clearances in Scotland. Does that mean then that 'ALL' the land clearances carried out, were caused by one twisted greedy Englishman? and that all the land still owned today by Scottish Lairds from that very same period, were squeaky Scottish clean, and Saintly Scottish Lairds that did nothing but help and aid their crofters? Or is this tale, even though true, just another biased dig at the hated English, who get the blame for all Scottish problems by telling one sided truth, but leaving out truth as well.

@johnfitzpatrick4007 2 года назад

Does the truth hurt.

@seeker7679 3 года назад

Nearly three hundred years ago but these stories still bring a queer feeling in the pit of my stomach. Thank you for keeping these events alive in the hearts of Scots everywhere. Lest we forget. 😔

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

You're welcome

@terryneale8663 3 года назад

The Highland clearances were on par with the potato famine in Ireland, both cruel events diminished this country but benefited the US greatly.

@pamelaadam9207 3 года назад

We also had a tattie famine

@eddie8900 2 года назад

My brother-in-law is a Sutherland, makes me wonder if his kin fled to Glasgow in order to eek a living after being evicted from their homes.

@flake452 4 года назад

Great Video.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 года назад

I thank you

@chrisspence6484 2 года назад

A ball bag with a tripod and a smart phone making history documentaries every bit as good as anything the bbc has ever made! Better in some ways… more honest. Good job keep them coming!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Ah, you're kind Chris

@kelllefae3026 4 месяца назад

The song " four stone walls" is about this ...

@nickbellinger1047 3 года назад

how about a word for the families who guarded the escape of others across the atlantic who were taken prisoner and transported to van diemans land ( the cruelest of prisons} as slaves ......because we feel a little left out....thanks for the vid bruce

@deanworsley2244 3 года назад

😥😔 thank you for your honest ‘nae bullshite’ presentations, so bloody good. From an Australian from Scots descent, please keep it up.........by the way, yer no a bawbag 👌🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 года назад

😂

@terrykeever9422 Год назад

Can't fathom the people who could do things such as these in this video. Or imagine how the highlanders felt and survived.

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

I know

@billstewart4839 10 месяцев назад

Why is the monument still standing?

@julianndavis9415 2 года назад

Bruce: Strap yourselves in, we've hardly started Me: grabs bowl of popcorn and chews faster

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

🤣

@kellymacbus1 3 года назад

Fantastic insight into Scotlands shameful past.

@williamstratton6399 3 года назад

He may have been the Duke of Sutherland, but he was no Sutherland.

@old_seadog 2 года назад

This history is truly fascinating, shocking and awful all at the same time. And if we are to learn from the past, then surely the greatest lesson is that we must never forget these injustices of the aristocracy in brutalising the poorest and weakest in society because if they thought they could get away with it again, then we'd be back there tomorrow morning.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

They're doing it now

@old_seadog 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours They certainly are trying.