The Highland Clearances: Explained (Short Animated Documentary) 

Same 😂

Closely followed in greatness by party boyco

What about the amazing spinning 3 plates?

Rob Waterhouse is his deputy

Lol

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

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.

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

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

"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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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).

BE GONE *SCAWT*

*if HE breathes he a scot

WilliKeks But my name John

@@hahaha5290 *igniting lightsaber

Aye

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

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

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.

Is he?

@@mirzaahmed6589 hahaha no I'm 95% sure he didn't say that

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

I think if you've watched Rob Roy with Liam Neeson I think it's about that not 100% sure though

Wow, he was such a hard worker, he was clearing people from the highlands 100 years after they'd been already cleared.

Good information, but please, breathe! You need some punctuation.

@@fallingmasonry Lol, my bad, mate. I was tired when I read that.

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.

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.

Is there written or oral histories that go back very far from European colonization?

@@youtubeaccount5153 Yeah, the Nubian civilization located in modern day sudan

this is how mafia works

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.

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.

These are confusing times

As long as James Bissonett remains first.

I lost it when I heard the name "a man of culture"

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

There are plenty of videos on it, just google them until then.

Fall of constantinople is literally among the first uploaded to the channel

me too

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,

Probably would have something to do with the boer war

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.

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".

Where you live?

@@DugrozReports the video is about the Scottish Highlands, so take a wild guess mate

@@DugrozReportsThe Sneck most likely

Not really anymore sadly. Canada hasn’t been noticeably British in any real way since the 1960s

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

Don't forget James Fraser

A precursor for what is happening right now.

@@54356776 what's happening now? Coronavirus? The rise of China?

I dont totally agree, as Highland culture did survive past the clearances, and most Highlanders today are descended off the Highlanders of then, but I agree the Clearances were evil, and monstrous,

Cumberland's name was nothing to do with the clearances, they didnt start for a generation after his death his name derives from the way he didn't take any prisoners at Culloden

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.