Hello, thank you all for watching, I am appreciative of your support. Many of you have suggested I do a documentary like this on Ireland. I have, it is available here: ua-cam.com/video/fbJKanTrf8c/v-deo.html
@Stuart Penman I don't understand why you think that the original name the Romans used for Ireland matters when it's name later changed and was adopted by the Scottish instead.
@Stuart Penman No, the Roman name for Ireland was Hibernia. Scotia comes from "Scoti" which, you're right, referred to the Irish, specifically the Gaelic pirates who terrorized Roman Britain. Recall of course that the Irish settled part of Scotland (Dal Riata). It was from this group that the name Scotland comes. If Scotia, in this context, means "Ireland" then "Scotland" means "Ireland".
@Tiny mod Wales was a country founded in 1056. Shortly afterwards it was revoked of that title as it was conquered by England. However, in December of 2011, Wales was officially recognised as a country. Because Wales was conquered way before the idea of the "United Kingdom", it's flag is not incorporated into the Union Jack, as when the UK was formed it was considered part of England, not its own country.
Quite a good account of how the United Kingdom came to be formed, but tells us very little of Scotland's role in the Empire: e.g. the development of modern economic theory by Scottish intellectuals, the Scottish diaspora or the engineering, extractive and manufacturing industries e.g. James Watt's refinement of the steam engine or Clydeside shipbuilding.
Dont forget about Edinburgh being the center of modern medicine for Europe and the world. You should check out the book How the Scots created the Modern World and everything in it.
I really appreciate how neutrally you cover your topics, and how much depth you go into. You are doing good things, sharing information like this for those interested in learning. Please keep doing what you're doing!
To be honest, you don't even have to ask. I have watched many of your videos several times. You have managed to kind of condense these histories down to a tolerable length which is way easier to follow and gives the viewer a great foundation to work with whenever viewing more specific subjects.Thank You.
@@efilrekib4446 :: The English use Scots and Irish as cannon fodder while the Noble Officers sat in their tents far back from the front lines drinking their "4 O Clock Tea". England did not "Share the Wealth" and plunder taken from other countries. Nearly all the Stolen Wealth went into London and Giant Country Estate Houses.
England conquered a lot of the known world. I think for most of history strong nations took what they could, not surprising they started close to home.
I'm a Scot born, bred and raised, and I think this is one of the best summaries of Scottish history I have ever seen. All the main points are covered, if only briefly. Maybe it takes one of our American cousins to see us clearly :-) Thanks for making this piece, and I will certainly check out your channel!
This is very well written and presented, and as a Scotsman, i learned some more of our history today. This means can forgive the misleading title, dubious pronunciation (never easy for a non native) and geographical issues. Good job!
It's not misleading. Scotland raped and pillaged a good chunk of the world as the UK. The only thing that seperates them from Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Spain and Israel, other Germanic countries, is at least they weren't sadistic and saying "scumbag" all the time You're such an idiot. Now to be fair, I've known Americans of Scottish descent, not many actual Scots, however I knew one, and while he wasn't a mean guy, he was pretty standoffish. If he was like that, imagine his racist family. English are not the uptight ones, at least not the ones who aren't white, meaning the Roman/French descended ones.
I am from Scotland and I like being in the uk. My clan McCallum (in the past they were known as Malcolm) My clan has always been loyalists in the Jacobite rebellion they sided with Clan Campbell along with other loyalists clans. It’s nice that you talk about the U in UK.
Brilliant video! I'm always looking for any new documentaries on Scotland because I think there's a lot of unknowns and disagreements on our history which can leave things all too confusing when you're growing up. I'm from a town right next to the western isles and I have always felt that there is so much lost history around my area, makes me want to start digging for more info!
As a scotsman this has to be the least biased video I've watched on my countries history. Its definitely a breath of fresh air from political propaganda. Thanks I look forward to seeing more like this!
The fact that there are other people out there who know who Gus Johnson is and are also interested in Scotland’s role in British Colonialism makes me feel better about myself 😅
How is that a fantasy? It's a 100% fact, Gaelic culture originated from the Gaels who are from Ireland. Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, and Manx all are derived from Old Irish. In northern Ireland most Mc names are from the north, the north was the Kingdon of Dal Riata which included much of Scotland, that's why the Gaels of Scotland have Mac and Mc names and not O', because they descend from Northern Irish clans, you can see Scotland from the north of Ireland on clear days, its proven fact.
@@MrVipasana of course different groups settlet in Ireland to make the Irish, but they adapted to their environment mixed with the other groups and created a separate genetic group, everyone descends from one cell organism and aquatic life, doesn't mean we still are, the highlands and western scotland is genetically Gaelic/Irish.
@@MrVipasana Your source is laughable, Campbell is the only person to dispute those claims. Origin myths almost all come from an event that happened in history, the Scots of Gaelic culture themselves say that is their origin. The book of invasions is the orgin story of the Irish, it was taken as fact for a long time, than for a brief few hundred years it was considered a christian propaganda story, until recent evidence shows major population changes and new dna groups being brought to Ireland mirroring the "myths", especially the Tuatha De Dannan and Milesains. Theres another myth that dark haired irish descend from the survivors of the spanish armada, this has been disproved, however it has also been proven that the dark hair gene of Ireland did originate in Iberia where the Milesians are said to have come from. Obviously it is exaggerated to make certain races in the stories into demon like creatures, but this is also an effect of the Gaelic and Celtic traditions being recorded orally and not written. archive.archaeology.org/0107/abstracts/scotland.html www.irishorigenes.com/content/origin-irish-and-scottish-gaels-revealed-their-dna www.globallanguageservices.co.uk/gaelic-language-come-ireland-scotland/ www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/ireland-invasions-0011852 www.britannica.com/topic/Scots-Gaelic-language
England and Scotland are fierce warrior nations. They fought against each other, and the Romans, Vikings and French. They are creative and inventive, industrial nations. Giving the world so much. Is it any wonder that they ruled half the globe.
It was the William the Bastard of Normandy, that invaded England and then Ireland, that built up all those 12 century castle ruins, still standing in the Irish/English Countryside, In Ireland they became more Irish than the Irish themselves. The Franco Normans in England made the French Language the National Language until the Angles and Saxon Danes took over.
I want to add that there are likely tens of thousands of people of Scottish descent living in South Africa, ironically often classed demographically as 'English' but you'll easily come across a McDonald or a McKenzie.
There are just as many of us High & Low Scots; living in Canada as in the auld country....7,000,000 strong and growing!... My family landed at the RN's Newfoundland Station at Qudi Vidi, with the Royal Navy in 1790... We were thankfully then granted 350 acres on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in 1815, for 'Services Rendered' against Napoleon and those pesky Yankee raiders. Slain'te.🍁🍻
@@RickBrode Alot of scots have Irish ancestry so even the 16 million scottish americans including the ''scots''Irish are in reality also of Irish ancestry. McGarty being a Irish surname for example. Just see this as hypocritical how the ulster-scots who make up 5 million in America are grouped with the scots as opposed to 40 million Irish Americans who came mostly from the 1800s famine, can be labeled as such but not the scots of Irish ancestry, another scot of Irish ancestry is Monroe, yet no one would call the Monroe clan Irish-scots, so why scots-Irish?
@@tillerman7272 No we didn't. Our elite betrayed us, the Scottish people did not want to join the union and there were riots for weeks after the union was formed. The English crown later abolished our parliament which led to the jacobite rebellion that was crushed. We only got our parliament back in the late 1990s. I am Scottish, not British and 80% of Scots also feel this way according to the recent census. Scotlands role in the British empire was one as a colony. Our elite only joined because of English embargoes on Scotland and the Alien act, the Scottish people were never consulted, only a small number of oppurtunistic Scots (hardly scots, most were anglified scots who were educated in private schools isolated from the native Scottish population, these people still use the word Scot as a slur among themselves.) To pretend like Scotland was some equal partner in the empire is to whitewash our history as a colony, a few opportunistic English educated Scots does not make Scotland responsible for the empire and the same can be said for Ireland or Wales.
@@thevis5465 Be that as it may, the Empire still made Scotland very rich (At least, the Lowlands, not so much the Highlands) However, I've always thought that if the Jacobites had succeeded, putting Charles Stuart on the Scottish throne and dissolving the union, Scotland would have been able to use its oil in the North Sea for its own gain and would have a similar quality of life what the nordic countries have today, so perhaps Scotland would have become rich anyway
@@tillerman7272 Of course Scotland would've become rich anyway. The union really helped us with nothing at all, the lowlands is a post industrial hellscape due to the empire, all our taxes get pumped into london, we have very little power to fix our societal problems. Scotland was not helped by the empire, only its landowner elite were and they make up a miniscule fraction of the population, most of Scotlands land is owned by a few hundred people. The union has only been a hindrance and especially recently with the oil and how we were lied to about Scotland not being able to join the EU if it became independent and then the English turning around and voting us out of the EU. In fact Scots actually did vote for independence in 2014, it was english people living here (they make up 10% of the population in Scotland) that pushed the vote to a no. There is no real democracy in the UK, we ARE and always have been a colony.
only in the last half of the video what we consider the British empire to be was in existence of the British empire was it more than Ontario,Quebec the British isles themselves and for a hundred years or so the 13 colonies the British empire was not what we think of it as until the 17th century and he covers history from the 1400s through to the modern day so yeah was it misleading yes but there is a reason why he only talked about the overseas empire in the last 15 minutes there wasn't much to talk about until the 17 hundreds.
Piggy /Andrew It is important, but the title suggests that the video is going to be about Scotland’s role in Britain’s worldwide empire. I get that context has to be laid down, and that compressing centuries into 5-10min is challenging (to say the least). That being said, I feel that a name like “Scotland’s relationship with England” would’ve better served this video.
Worth noting, the enlightenment in Scotland was not a result of French and English enlightenment. In fact, Voltaire specifically cites Scottish thinkers as the inspiration behind his works.
I absolutely bring to serious history of Scotland I have learnt so much myself as a Scott living in England and have done for most of my life well done for your excellent work 👏👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I love your tongue in cheek way of laying out history. You had me laughing and replaying much of the video simply to laugh again. Bless your heart as well as your tongue. ;) Keep up the good work and your double entendres!!
I am an Englishman and I must say how grateful I am for my Scottish ancestors and my brothers up north. They have played such an important role in British history, and yet it seems whenever I speak to others about the British empire (or the United Kingdom in general) it’s always just England they seem to refer to, without even seeming to know there is a difference between Great Britain and England.
Well researched and informative video. You could have touched more on Scotland’s role in slavery and North America (I.e the Tobacco Lords etc ). Sadly a lot of contemporary Scottish historians are nationalists who seek to gloss over the parts of the empire that are unsavoury that Scots had a part in, portraying it as a mostly English endeavour and presenting us as an oppressed people rather than enthusiastic partners. Nonetheless, really good video!
The leading pro-independence historian Tom Devine has done a great deal to highlight the role of Scots in the more sordid aspects of empire. You engage in a we bit of propaganda yourself. You suggest that supporters of independence are nationalists. Nationalism implies a great deal more than the right of self determination. There are very few nationalists among SNP members and voters. I have given up on expecting any honesty from Unionists.
John Kelly Terrible straw man. A nationalist in Scottish politics refers to Nationalism within the context of Scottish politics. I.e, Scottish nationalist party, civic nationalism, pro-independence. Honestly what did you try to achieve with that ridiculous response? Do you think anyone reading the comments would think Scottish nationalists were far right ? Give people some credit, I doubt anyone is that clueless.
@@nordicblood6329 Give people some credit? Listing to many a speech by Kezia Dugdale, one fiuly expected to see Sturgeon in an SS uniform, festooned with swastikas. Dugdale was not a fool. She was throwing crap, hoping some would stick. Just as you call the the SNP, the Scottish Nationalist Party, when its official name is the Scottish National Party. The SNP is no more nationalist than any progressive European social democratic party. There are nationalists in the Scottish context. The Unionist parties are British Nationalists. One party that is safe from having its name taken literally is the Liberal Democrats - now neither liberal nor democrat.
Trust me, only morons and dumbasses think Scotland (and I mean the Lowlands at that) wasn't involved in brutal imperialism. And it makes you kinda an idiot for thinking that it's somehow a misconception. This is like the morons who think Nazism was Nordicist or that Greenland was uninhabited so hence Denmark couldn't have a brutal colonial empire. No they had a brutal colonial empire and contrary to some rather stupid sayings, they were quite big, oppressing Norway, oppressing parts of Germany. They were devils for me.
@Stefan Dubois like fuck are we the welsh innocent. We were the original marines. We did most of the fighting and invading. Scotland built the boats that carried the welsh to invade for the English. The perfect triangle.
This is a weird account of the rise of the Intergalactic Great Empire of Fife. Neither Angus McFife, nor his 12 descendants (also named Angus McFife), nor the Apocalypse Battle of Mars in 1992 that destroyed the Earth and transported the King of California (the Hollywood Hootsman), the valiant hero Angus McFife XIII and the evil wizard Zargothrax to another dimension are mentioned. Hail Hoots! Hail to the King of Dundee!!
I simultaneously gagged and laughed when I read king of Dundee Honestly that place is the last location I would chose to base my intergalactic empire around, unless its' economy was centred around heroin
I've always liked and appreciated the Welsh and there history. Nice people. And I'm English. 👍 I will be going to Pembrokeshire next year for my holidays if corona don't mess things up.
Nice thumnail sketch of Scotland, well done. Since you skim over the part on their early adoption of education for all, which led to the Scottish Enlightenment, let me recommend to all interested the book "How the Scots Invented the Modern World" , or, for fast relief, at least a search in the internet.
Thank you for your amazing videos! I think a history of Greece through the ages would be very interesting given the impact it's civilization had at Europe.
fantastic video, a great watch and very informative on the history of Scotland, something that we don't really thing about. However I agree with other comments that the title is a little misleading. Nothing wrong with calling it the History of Scotland extended for example. Anyway, as always I love your videos and keep up the good work!
God bless Scotland! i hope our union continues for many centuries to come and the unfortunate economic divides of the north and south are resolved. with love from England
Have you considered one on Australia and or on NZ ? I know they're storys are short compared to others but non the less interesting wouldn't you say? I'd be interested ! :D
@@PiousMoltar :: People in Ireland became Convicts for practicing their Religion, for Playing Irish Sports, for catching a Trout or Salmon in an Irish stream.
As a man of direct male Scottish descent. Scotland was heavily involved Britain's empire from major wars. And involved in the slave trade to the 13 colonies and the Caribbean.
gerard dearie theres a large movement of scottish nationalists who like to paint the "evil" empire as a solely english affair. Despite scots actually being overrepresented.
@@louisromero2320 They are not nationalists. And, the Scots role in empire is irrelevant to the issue of independence. Their sense of gilt shows that they have a conscience. Unlike many English nationalists, who look back on empire with pride.
@@jdlc903 There are probably some English nationalists, who do not look back on empire with pride and longing; but most do. The evidence is all over the social media.
My ancestor, John Spottiswoode, was a Scottish historian under James, and Lord Chancellor of Scotland under Charles I. Proud to be of Scottish heritage. Great video!
England wasn't responsible for the lion's share of the formation and administration of the empire, as you state. The Union of Crowns between Scotland and England occurred in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became also James I of England and Ireland. He henceforth became James VI and I. The Kingdoms remained distinct realms until The Union of Parliaments between Scotland and England in 1707. Thereafter, all affairs of, Government, Parliament and, of course, the British Empire were decided by British Members of Parliament. In effect, there was no Scotland and England, as distinct political entities, at least, after 1707. Since then we've had a British Monarchy, British Government, British House of Commons, British House of Lords, British Parliament, and British State. Some people, mainly Americans, refer to the 'Queen of England'. This is inaccurate as there hasn't been a Queen of England since 1707. Also, some often describe Britain as 'England'. I watched an American produced documentary about WWII some time ago ago and the English narrator alluded to "the English Royal Navy". Shocking, and very offensive to proud Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish British people.
You're just basically repeating the information he provided here, why? How does anything of that disprove the fact that England does have the lion's share of everything in Britain?
@@chingizzhylkybayev8575 It doesn't though? England having 80%+ of the UK's population is obviously going to get more representation but Scottish cities like Edinburgh and Aberdeen have the highest incomes of any city in the UK except London. Glasgow is the 3rd largest economy in the UK beating its rival Manchester which has a similar population, and at the height of the empire, Glasgow was the "second city of the empire" dominating the tobacco trade world-wide. Edinburgh alone has 100+ more millionaires than the English city Birmingham which has 700,000+ more people. There's your disapproval.
Geordie Dubya mostly accurate, but Northern Ireland is not part of Britain, but part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It’s a subtle, but actual very important distinction with current internal uk politics.
Im more offended you blatantly leave out key facts in your comments which mostly include Scots being Slaughtered and even a king you mentioned betrayed by his own peoples in England. Not to mention the fact our last queen was executed whilst under the roof of the queen of England but hey why let facts get in the way of some good old brain washing propaganda.
If I remember correctly the Highlanders didn't just fight the French but if I recall they clashed against the American Army in the battle of New Orleans.
Grew up with the Rennie brothers descendants of the Colonel that was killed in the British assault.Jackson was a smart leader and fought that battle in the only way possible.Amazing victory!
the scots have been in amerikay since the 1500s(mainly lowlanders. then the british army hired scots highland clans to help fight the spanish and were given large tracts of land in return. one battle was that of..fort king george i believe.
Yes, it's in Patagonia. The original colony almost starved but the Argentinians helped them out. I think there's more of a mix of Spanish and Welsh in most of the area today. People of Spanish Argentinian descent in the area also speak the same Spanish/Welsh mix.
I dunno if there's actually a whole town that speaks Welsh, also it's dying out. Only older people still speak Welsh. Hell most Argentinians are of Italian heritage but they speak Spanish anyway.
clans were around alot longer than from the late middle ages , throughout history going back to pictish times . look at the individual history of surnames with 'Mac' in them and you will get an idea . Norman influence in the middle ages made the clan stucture more organised, and it evolved to more modern times but had already been in place .
I can trace my family back to 1745 (clan D'hud Gaelic for David) the 'son as affixed when translated in English (sons of clan david) the root name was Clan Chattan (c.1314) the era of the Bruce. I myself was named after a distant relatives clan, the clan Strachan (pronounced Stra-hawn) and the Strachan-Davidson combination has gone unbroken since 1745. My son has the honour of the name and has said he will also (when the chance arises) bestow the same name to his children. Thank you for a great, nay excellent quality video.
Adam Smith "The Father of Modern Economics"...as mentioned at 50:40, is referenced very often in most books & speeches by the late Dr. Milton Friedman, (Economist, University of Chicago & Nobel Prize) Smith is also referenced by Dr. Thomas Sowell, a close associate mentored by Milton Friedman. Both are Very Brilliant Economists....Dr. Sowell is still living & publishing books as recently as 2020. IMO - A National Treasure to the USA, based on the principle teachings of Scotsman, Adam Smith.
Yep, pretty much spot on. Only your second last graphic which showed Elizabeth II as leader of all countries of the UK, she is in fact Elizabeth I of Scotland and does not command the title of Her Royal Highness. I look forward to your next installment in a couple years from now, Why Scotland Left The Uk. :)))
They should have really sorted out regnal numbering 300 years ago, as part of the Acts of Union. I've always thought it should have just been a hard reset: the current queen should be Elizabeth I of the United Kingdom, since... well, she is the first Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom. Churchill's idea of always using the higher regnal number is also a potentially good compromise (in which case, she would still be Elizabeth II), but I'd rather they just started from scratch. Too late now, I guess, unless they just avoid the more problematic names going forward. Having said all that, and agreeing with the general gist of your comment, you are incorrect. There is no such title as 'Queen of Scotland' (or 'Queen of England', a pet peeve of mine), so she can't be Elizabeth I of Scotland. She's either Elizabeth I of the United Kingdom, or Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. And purely factually (even if we agree it shouldn't be the case), she is Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. And on a personal note, I'm looking forward to his future video entitled "how the UK fixed its problems by federating, and everyone stopped their petty squabbles", but each to their own.
@@monkeymox2544 There was a great stooshie in the last 60s when my father was building what we came to know as the QE2. Job number 736 as she was known was creating a lot of debate over its launch name; How can it be Queen Elizabeth II when she's been built in Scotland and we never had a Queen Elizabeth I? and so on. A great number of the ship yard staff were of course union members and 'Red Clydeside' members of the communist party. After months of negotiations it was settled and she would be known as Queen Elizabeth 2 (as opposed to II) RMS Queen Elizabeth had been built in the same yard in 1946. I know this addresses none of your points but it might be of interest to someone.
@Robert Cawley With hard work, discipline, enterprise and innovation; Scotland, like its Scandinavian neighbours will prosper. We have good reason to have faith in ourselves.
It benefitted both to begin with. Scotlands debt was paid off, and England got rid of their oldest enemy, and friend of their enemy. Although it was extremely unpopular in Scotland for a while.
Gizmo Madug I always thought that the scots were taxed to raise enough money for the Darien scheme, which was around 20% of the entire countries wealth at the time?
@@callummcgregorenthusiast5545 No, it wasn't a tax, no more than the English East India company was. It was more like buying a patriotic lottery ticket.
It was not an English army at Culloden. It was more a civil war. Many Scots were on the side of the English. Also, the union of parliaments was decided by very few people. 175 to be exact. All land owning rich people who would get money from the deal. 106 voted yes, 69 voted no. Basically 37 rich people sold Scotland to recoup their losses from the failed American colony. Not exactly democracy.
@@robertmclean8358 look you little pea brain fuck. If your country can be sold by a handful of people, and you have no say so and you're transferred with the property...you're a slave. Scotland doesnt deserve to be independent because the men who lead Scotland have always been less than we deserved. We fight each other, we fight our natural allies the Irish, our nobles betray us, and when we put a Scottish king on the throne of England, he sells out and sympathizes more with the English...and by the look of your comment, fellow Scot...nothings changed. I'm sure you're more than content being Englands battered wife, you seem to be trained quite well.
@@wormthirtyfour that was true about 390 million years ago, but the plates fused and split up since then, and all of GB is on the European plate. (Iceland on the other hand is half European, half American).
Hi as a proud English man. That was top on. Thanks so much. You certainly did you history. England is a proud and historic country.our identity goes back before the roman invasion. Tens of thousands of years.
OMG I know about the Anglo Saxons arrived in the 6th century that's where the English arrived not before the Romans kingdom of England was formed in the 10th century and Scotland was formed as a kingdom in the 9th century ❤
Good series on Scottish history. It is a small but complicated country as seen by it's history. Always in a struggle for its identity and independence over its larger Southern Cousin. Scotlands future history will be impossible to predict, it will take many turns and twists in the future but whether that is part of the UK or not will be a close one. The World has shrunk considerably due to Globalisation, if you are not in that club then things may get difficult and so it may be for an independent Scotland. Scotland should be better off as part of the Union, but the Union has withered. There is no love or respect for it, as the UK media keeps bleating on about disrespectful Scot's, Welsh and Northern Irish it is actually the changing and uncaring face of the people of London and Westminster that are destabilising the Union. London is more interested in becoming the next Singapore and a World City than governing the island of Great Britain, meaning the other nations and many parts of England also either take control of their own destiny or allow Westminster to lead. However, like I said, Westminster or London is more interested in itself and the interests of those who are part of that inner circle, this will be the undoing of the UK. NI will go first, then Scotland. I hope Wales finds a way to protect itself, England will be fine in one form or another but Wales will need to find its way. Wales may feel the over bearing weight of a much larger England if it is left alone by itself. The only reason England holds onto the other Nations now is security of borders and natural resources, but also mainly to keep face as the main undisputed power in the Western European islands.
Chris Petrie yes I believe Brexit will be the last push for NI and Scotland to seek independence. Both want to continue enjoying the trade and economic advantages of the EU and Brexit has made it untenable for NI because of its border with Irish Republic. There’s a chance that NI might prefer to unite with the Republic and reunify the island then to remain in UK/GB. Scotland also wants to remain in EU and thus Brexit brings the independence issue back with a better reason.
Chris Petrie May be all true, but The votes to stay in EU were largely from London, the areas outside voted Brexit. The irony is that decision will lead to the dissolving of GB/UK as neither Scotland nor NI want BREXIT.
Yea, Brexit is a major factor in the further fracturing of the Union. However the EU itself is in trouble and not just because of Brexit, the EU started of as a trading block but has morphed into a political project of monetary centralisation with Germany and France weilding too much power and influence. I remember Brexit happening and a worker from the North of England getting slandered from the press for his so called thicko comment. This worker argued against the comments about UK GDP being damaged by Brexit, his reply was your GDP will be damaged it will not make a difference to me. Of course the press slandered him as GDP is the Gross Domestic Product of the country as a whole. But he was not wrong in a sense as most UK GDP is unevenly distributed and held by our corrupt and opaque financial sector. So what he is saying is his slice and 99% of the rest of the UK populous slice of GDP is pathetic. Uneven wealth distribution is one cause of Brexit which our bullshitting government managed to shove the blame for much of onto the EU, many of our own screw ups were blamed on the EU. Brexit was a two fingered salute to the effects of globalisation and the flight of capital from the country by the people, along with the crap bargaining power of wages due to the threat of relocating globalised cheaper labour elsewhere. Brexit was a symptom of many things, of course a large chunk of the UK electorate are simpletons full of racism and what not too. The UK will fracture due to ignorance and apathy from the centralised powers of London. Like I said the old Empire is dead, the new Empires are centralised global mega cities sucking in all Capital and wealth. This does not go well for any country in the World not just the UK, the USA could have states depart as could Australia and many other European countries. Also one main driver of Brexit was from certain powers in the UK financial sector, take good old peoples champion Nigel Farage (sarcasm), this little worm was acting on behalf of the very people helping capital take flight to off-shore tax havens. The EU was trying to plug up these loop holes that were causing the collossal losses in tax income for many states. The financial cossetting mega cities pushing to keep the loop holes open like the City of London are causing damage to their own outlayer districts that depended on them for leadership. These other districts and states will have no choice but to take their futures into there own hands, however they will be set against the very mega cities that used to control them and it will not be a level playing field. Scotland will suffer whether being in the UK or not.
@@nk53nxg A large chunk of the UK electorate are racist simpletons???? Interesting conclusion. In all international surveys the UK is one of the very least racist countries in the world. Clearly not achievable if a large chunk of the electorate is actually racist. The UK is also the 5th most educated country in the world. Clearly not possible if a large chunk of the electorate are simpletons. I think the difficulty might be your own very limited ability to understand the complex political and economic reasons for why people from the wealthiest to the poorest voted to leave the EU. Interestingly, the group that voted the most as a % were middle aged men with A level or similar professional qualifications, so clearly bright but did not go to university. At the time they were in their teens, a much lower % of people went to university than do now. I think you need to look more closely at the statistics than just parrot mainstream media headlines from the BBC, Guardian and the Independent.
I legit thought it was Gus Johnson on the thumbnail ( a comedy you tube content creator) , but then realized, this is a actual documentary, not comedy and not Gus
@impactofredemption I am glad you appreciate my humor, I want to share a funny story with you. Back in 9th grade math class, I sat next to these 2 guys. One of them was always going on about a "speed pass", which was to have sex with the mom of the guy who sat behind him. I asked the guy behind him if he even knew him, he just shook his head. It made math class more enjoyable Now, onto the bush of Scottish women, is it plaid?
The Scottish were the Englanders mercenaries. The Scottish (The Orkany Boys) were the manager class of the Hudson's Bay Co. They and their descendents built Canada and were the richest of the robber barons in the USA 1800 to 2020 see Carnegie....
I think the French were building Canada for a couple of hundred years before the English. It was the United Empire Loyalists who ready were instrumental in building Ontario.
I think the Scots 'transported' to America and the subsequent immigrants were the backbone of building America. People like Carnegie were important, or course, but the vast number of new Americans from Scotland were the nuts and bolts of nation building. I recommend a book by Arthur Herman called "How the Scots Invented the Modern World."
nomine * Is that book like “How the Irish Saved Civilization?” I believe many Scots who “transported” to the US also became “plantation managers” and many settled in the highlands of the Southeast, that being the hills, ridges and “hollers” of Appalachia, bringing their folk music and fiddle, which evolved into what was called “hillbilly,” then bluegrass and now country music. To this day we see their rebellious, independent, “don’t tread on me” spirit, which can be traced to our 1st populist President, and leader of the massacre of the native people, Andrew Johnson right to our current one.
@@pbohearn Andrew Jackson you mean, Andrew Johnson took over after Lincoln was assassinated. Andrew Johnson treated the south like dog shit. He is largely the reason the north south division exists to this day. Southern Americans have more of an identity because they experienced a shared tragedy. If Lincoln would have survived the south would have been introduced back in to the Union with limited hostility. It was warhawks, carpetbaggers and the overall pillaging and vindictive mindset that created an almost English/Scottish divide. We are one country, we shared in our achievements, but we are not the same, and one of us had much less of a choice.
Thank you very much for this video. I never learned any of this in school, and damn this should be something in the education system indeed. Thank you very much, and good day to you as well. 👍
Hello, thank you all for watching, I am appreciative of your support. Many of you have suggested I do a documentary like this on Ireland. I have, it is available here: ua-cam.com/video/fbJKanTrf8c/v-deo.html
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@Stuart Penman The Romans didn't set foot on Canada.
@Stuart Penman I don't understand why you think that the original name the Romans used for Ireland matters when it's name later changed and was adopted by the Scottish instead.
@Stuart Penman No, the Roman name for Ireland was Hibernia. Scotia comes from "Scoti" which, you're right, referred to the Irish, specifically the Gaelic pirates who terrorized Roman Britain. Recall of course that the Irish settled part of Scotland (Dal Riata). It was from this group that the name Scotland comes.
If Scotia, in this context, means "Ireland" then "Scotland" means "Ireland".
Fire of Learning you should do this for Wales as well
"France's Francis marry Mary"
Yeah, that was some stinky cheese, lol.
No pun intended.
Haha, I noticed this. He couldn't convince me in a million years that he didn't do it on purpose.
“Even cause Mary to miscarry”
Knowledge is power. -France is Bacon.
"Britain includes Scottish"
Wales: *Cries in Llywegigoch*
i'm english and always cringe when people don't include wales in this story of love and hate, bugs the hell out of me lol
@Michael Halligan Modern Scots Lowlanders are Germanic, the Highlanders are the Celts.
@The Phantom That's ridiculous. Wales was annexed when they were brought into the UK, but it was still a distinct nation and always has been.
@The Phantom Explain how, it literally was.
@Tiny mod Wales was a country founded in 1056. Shortly afterwards it was revoked of that title as it was conquered by England. However, in December of 2011, Wales was officially recognised as a country. Because Wales was conquered way before the idea of the "United Kingdom", it's flag is not incorporated into the Union Jack, as when the UK was formed it was considered part of England, not its own country.
Quite a good account of how the United Kingdom came to be formed, but tells us very little of Scotland's role in the Empire: e.g. the development of modern economic theory by Scottish intellectuals, the Scottish diaspora or the engineering, extractive and manufacturing industries e.g. James Watt's refinement of the steam engine or Clydeside shipbuilding.
Dont forget about Edinburgh being the center of modern medicine for Europe and the world. You should check out the book How the Scots created the Modern World and everything in it.
I really appreciate how neutrally you cover your topics, and how much depth you go into. You are doing good things, sharing information like this for those interested in learning. Please keep doing what you're doing!
XD The Act of Union was pushed by the Scots, not the English as stated here. "Neutrally", get a grip. XD
To be honest, you don't even have to ask. I have watched many of your videos several times. You have managed to kind of condense these histories down to a tolerable length which is way easier to follow and gives the viewer a great foundation to work with whenever viewing more specific subjects.Thank You.
I love that Nova Scotia (aka New Scotland) was mentioned! We pride ourselves in our Scottish heritage! ♥️
is it true that some people even speak gaidhlig there?
@@Liza-sv2sz Yes, mostly in the east on the island of Cape Breton.
The Scots were in Arcadia well before the Union with the knights templar
@@Liza-sv2sz ceart!
I've been to Nova Scotia/Cape Breton and i found it more Irish than Scottish...especially that big fiddle in Sydney and 😂😂
Finally someone that recognises that Scotland actually helped England in the empire
You make is sound like the English Empire?
@@efilrekib4446 :: The English use Scots and Irish as cannon fodder while the Noble Officers sat in their tents far back from the front lines drinking their "4 O Clock Tea". England did not "Share the Wealth" and plunder taken from other countries. Nearly all the Stolen Wealth went into London and Giant Country Estate Houses.
John Doh you are full of shite, go & read some books Numpty...
Shhhhh! We’ve been letting others blame this on the English for years
@@johndoe-ss9bz | yeah that's pretty much what it says on the contract.
I just like every time the map of the British isles come up a new part of Ireland has been swallowed
Tis tru wee Took many a lump....but twas all in good fun.
Be careful or I’ll send a package to your house.
dont start your car tomorrow
Don’t check your mail.
Michael Halligan haha
Queen of Scotland : what should I name my -
Scotland : JAMES
Lucky it wasnt princy mcprinceface
Yep
I hope you're doing well following your stroke, man.
Terrible how the Scottish were treated by the English. Forced into a union it's disgusting
England conquered a lot of the known world. I think for most of history strong nations took what they could, not surprising they started close to home.
I'm a Scot born, bred and raised, and I think this is one of the best summaries of Scottish history I have ever seen. All the main points are covered, if only briefly. Maybe it takes one of our American cousins to see us clearly :-) Thanks for making this piece, and I will certainly check out your channel!
That's what I thought, we don't get as much detail in Scottish schools as this.
This is very well written and presented, and as a Scotsman, i learned some more of our history today.
This means can forgive the misleading title, dubious pronunciation (never easy for a non native) and geographical issues.
Good job!
It's not misleading. Scotland raped and pillaged a good chunk of the world as the UK.
The only thing that seperates them from Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Spain and Israel, other Germanic countries, is at least they weren't sadistic and saying "scumbag" all the time
You're such an idiot.
Now to be fair, I've known Americans of Scottish descent, not many actual Scots, however I knew one, and while he wasn't a mean guy, he was pretty standoffish. If he was like that, imagine his racist family.
English are not the uptight ones, at least not the ones who aren't white, meaning the Roman/French descended ones.
I am from Scotland and I like being in the uk. My clan McCallum (in the past they were known as Malcolm) My clan has always been loyalists in the Jacobite rebellion they sided with Clan Campbell along with other loyalists clans. It’s nice that you talk about the U in UK.
Why are they now called McCallum and not Malcolm anymore?
Brilliant video! I'm always looking for any new documentaries on Scotland because I think there's a lot of unknowns and disagreements on our history which can leave things all too confusing when you're growing up. I'm from a town right next to the western isles and I have always felt that there is so much lost history around my area, makes me want to start digging for more info!
As a scotsman this has to be the least biased video I've watched on my countries history. Its definitely a breath of fresh air from political propaganda. Thanks I look forward to seeing more like this!
History is political propaganda regurgitated and re-spun.
In what are they normally biased
@@jdlc903 look through other videos on Scotlands history on UA-cam you'll know what I mean
The fact that there are other people out there who know who Gus Johnson is and are also interested in Scotland’s role in British Colonialism makes me feel better about myself 😅
You forget about the impact of Scots in South Africa. I, and many other South Africans, are extremely proud of our Scots’ roots.
How about the Irish (Scoti) roots of ancient Scots culture?
South Afrimutts
How is that a fantasy? It's a 100% fact, Gaelic culture originated from the Gaels who are from Ireland. Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, and Manx all are derived from Old Irish. In northern Ireland most Mc names are from the north, the north was the Kingdon of Dal Riata which included much of Scotland, that's why the Gaels of Scotland have Mac and Mc names and not O', because they descend from Northern Irish clans, you can see Scotland from the north of Ireland on clear days, its proven fact.
@@MrVipasana of course different groups settlet in Ireland to make the Irish, but they adapted to their environment mixed with the other groups and created a separate genetic group, everyone descends from one cell organism and aquatic life, doesn't mean we still are, the highlands and western scotland is genetically Gaelic/Irish.
@@MrVipasana Your source is laughable, Campbell is the only person to dispute those claims. Origin myths almost all come from an event that happened in history, the Scots of Gaelic culture themselves say that is their origin. The book of invasions is the orgin story of the Irish, it was taken as fact for a long time, than for a brief few hundred years it was considered a christian propaganda story, until recent evidence shows major population changes and new dna groups being brought to Ireland mirroring the "myths", especially the Tuatha De Dannan and Milesains. Theres another myth that dark haired irish descend from the survivors of the spanish armada, this has been disproved, however it has also been proven that the dark hair gene of Ireland did originate in Iberia where the Milesians are said to have come from. Obviously it is exaggerated to make certain races in the stories into demon like creatures, but this is also an effect of the Gaelic and Celtic traditions being recorded orally and not written.
archive.archaeology.org/0107/abstracts/scotland.html
www.irishorigenes.com/content/origin-irish-and-scottish-gaels-revealed-their-dna
www.globallanguageservices.co.uk/gaelic-language-come-ireland-scotland/
www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/ireland-invasions-0011852
www.britannica.com/topic/Scots-Gaelic-language
The notification for a new video on this channel really puts a smile on my face
Day 10 if #CCPV lock down, I took up Day Drinking today.
England and Scotland are fierce warrior nations. They fought against each other, and the Romans, Vikings and French. They are creative and inventive, industrial nations. Giving the world so much. Is it any wonder that they ruled half the globe.
It was the William the Bastard of Normandy, that invaded England and then Ireland, that built up all those 12 century castle ruins, still standing in the Irish/English Countryside, In Ireland they became more Irish than the Irish themselves. The Franco Normans in England made the French Language the National Language until the Angles and Saxon Danes took over.
@IOTBWEngland is quite fierce.
@tony-montana2.0Romans, Normans, and then the Scots took over England in 1603 😂
India would like a word…
I was looking for somthing to quench my boredom
@Harry Harry yes... and this video quenched that
How about learning to spell basic words correctly to fill your time?
@@sunnyjim1355 what happend in your life to make you such a loser
Quell. To quell your boredom.
Ah, you have spoken my words dear friend
Does Gus Johnson know you used his face for the soldier on the cover image?
😂
Came here to say this exact thing, lol!
Also came here to say the same thing. And did so, before I saw this comment.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I thought it was jesse pinkman
I want to add that there are likely tens of thousands of people of Scottish descent living in South Africa, ironically often classed demographically as 'English' but you'll easily come across a McDonald or a McKenzie.
There are just as many of us High & Low Scots; living in Canada as in the auld country....7,000,000 strong and growing!...
My family landed at the RN's Newfoundland Station at Qudi Vidi, with the Royal Navy in 1790... We were thankfully then granted 350 acres on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in 1815, for 'Services Rendered' against Napoleon and those pesky Yankee raiders.
Slain'te.🍁🍻
R PM good man
@@RickBrode Alot of scots have Irish ancestry so even the 16 million scottish americans including the ''scots''Irish are in reality also of Irish ancestry. McGarty being a Irish surname for example. Just see this as hypocritical how the ulster-scots who make up 5 million in America are grouped with the scots as opposed to 40 million Irish Americans who came mostly from the 1800s famine, can be labeled as such but not the scots of Irish ancestry, another scot of Irish ancestry is Monroe, yet no one would call the Monroe clan Irish-scots, so why scots-Irish?
Sean Mcdermott 1916 a lot of Scottish names and clans are from Ireland, I’d say typically in the Western Highlands.
@@RickBrode Alot of mc surnames in the comments here are of Irish origin.
Scotland has fought through the ages and has managed to survive , unbelievable.
Ye they really played their cards right by joining the union and becoming rich from the empire after having to put up with the English for decades
@@tillerman7272 No we didn't. Our elite betrayed us, the Scottish people did not want to join the union and there were riots for weeks after the union was formed. The English crown later abolished our parliament which led to the jacobite rebellion that was crushed. We only got our parliament back in the late 1990s. I am Scottish, not British and 80% of Scots also feel this way according to the recent census.
Scotlands role in the British empire was one as a colony. Our elite only joined because of English embargoes on Scotland and the Alien act, the Scottish people were never consulted, only a small number of oppurtunistic Scots (hardly scots, most were anglified scots who were educated in private schools isolated from the native Scottish population, these people still use the word Scot as a slur among themselves.)
To pretend like Scotland was some equal partner in the empire is to whitewash our history as a colony, a few opportunistic English educated Scots does not make Scotland responsible for the empire and the same can be said for Ireland or Wales.
@@thevis5465 Be that as it may, the Empire still made Scotland very rich (At least, the Lowlands, not so much the Highlands)
However, I've always thought that if the Jacobites had succeeded, putting Charles Stuart on the Scottish throne and dissolving the union, Scotland would have been able to use its oil in the North Sea for its own gain and would have a similar quality of life what the nordic countries have today, so perhaps Scotland would have become rich anyway
@@tillerman7272 Of course Scotland would've become rich anyway. The union really helped us with nothing at all, the lowlands is a post industrial hellscape due to the empire, all our taxes get pumped into london, we have very little power to fix our societal problems.
Scotland was not helped by the empire, only its landowner elite were and they make up a miniscule fraction of the population, most of Scotlands land is owned by a few hundred people.
The union has only been a hindrance and especially recently with the oil and how we were lied to about Scotland not being able to join the EU if it became independent and then the English turning around and voting us out of the EU.
In fact Scots actually did vote for independence in 2014, it was english people living here (they make up 10% of the population in Scotland) that pushed the vote to a no.
There is no real democracy in the UK, we ARE and always have been a colony.
@@thevis5465 Scotland have more slave than England.
Your title is rather misleading: only in the last 15 minutes is there much about the overseas Empire.
only in the last half of the video what we consider the British empire to be was in existence of the British empire was it more than Ontario,Quebec the British isles themselves and for a hundred years or so the 13 colonies the British empire was not what we think of it as until the 17th century and he covers history from the 1400s through to the modern day so yeah was it misleading yes but there is a reason why he only talked about the overseas empire in the last 15 minutes there wasn't much to talk about until the 17 hundreds.
To you and a few others such as myself, perhaps, but for others who dont know Scotland's history, learning about it is important.
Piggy /Andrew It is important, but the title suggests that the video is going to be about Scotland’s role in Britain’s worldwide empire. I get that context has to be laid down, and that compressing centuries into 5-10min is challenging (to say the least). That being said, I feel that a name like “Scotland’s relationship with England” would’ve better served this video.
It's important to establish context for why things are the way they are. The history doesn't start at 1707.
I just wish they'd given it a more accurate title like "Modern Scotland." (I'd love to see a documentary focusing on the Scots in the Empire!)
Worth noting, the enlightenment in Scotland was not a result of French and English enlightenment. In fact, Voltaire specifically cites Scottish thinkers as the inspiration behind his works.
I absolutely bring to serious history of Scotland I have learnt so much myself as a Scott living in England and have done for most of my life well done for your excellent work 👏👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Scot Saor Alba 2021
Scot, not Scott...
Your not a Scot because we'd never call ourselves "Scotts".
@@LunarJim69 same as people who call themselves brits
Fantastic, simply fantastic. As a scot trying to learn more about Scottish history this has been a big help
I live in Canada, My mother is a Bell. One of our ancestors did a neat thing, he invented the telephone! He grew up here in New Scotland
Big Alexander? some man for the wan man so he was.
"I recommend you watch all my videos...twice"
You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.
Real Man watch his videos 10 times. In a row.
ROOKIE NUMBERS!
Anyone else watch these & accidentally fall asleep & have to rewatch it?
Kayla twice
Just tucked myself in and was hoping as much
Goodnight
Im Scottish, British and proud. The United Kingdom has accomplished so much together.
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This series is amazing. Thank you for your hard work!
I love your tongue in cheek way of laying out history. You had me laughing and replaying much of the video simply to laugh again. Bless your heart as well as your tongue. ;) Keep up the good work and your double entendres!!
An admirable history, Scotland. Many lessons to be learnt.
Do believe the British Union must prevail.
I am an Englishman and I must say how grateful I am for my Scottish ancestors and my brothers up north. They have played such an important role in British history, and yet it seems whenever I speak to others about the British empire (or the United Kingdom in general) it’s always just England they seem to refer to, without even seeming to know there is a difference between Great Britain and England.
Well researched and informative video. You could have touched more on Scotland’s role in slavery and North America (I.e the Tobacco Lords etc ). Sadly a lot of contemporary Scottish historians are nationalists who seek to gloss over the parts of the empire that are unsavoury that Scots had a part in, portraying it as a mostly English endeavour and presenting us as an oppressed people rather than enthusiastic partners. Nonetheless, really good video!
The leading pro-independence historian Tom Devine has done a great deal to highlight the role of Scots in the more sordid aspects of empire. You engage in a we bit of propaganda yourself. You suggest that supporters of independence are nationalists. Nationalism implies a great deal more than the right of self determination. There are very few nationalists among SNP members and voters. I have given up on expecting any honesty from Unionists.
gerard dearie “Moral martyrdom”. I didn’t realise not wrapping our history up in cotton wool was now a purely SJW pursuit.
John Kelly Terrible straw man. A nationalist in Scottish politics refers to Nationalism within the context of Scottish politics. I.e, Scottish nationalist party, civic nationalism, pro-independence. Honestly what did you try to achieve with that ridiculous response? Do you think anyone reading the comments would think Scottish nationalists were far right ? Give people some credit, I doubt anyone is that clueless.
@@nordicblood6329 Give people some credit? Listing to many a speech by Kezia Dugdale, one fiuly expected to see Sturgeon in an SS uniform, festooned with swastikas. Dugdale was not a fool. She was throwing crap, hoping some would stick. Just as you call the the SNP, the Scottish Nationalist Party, when its official name is the Scottish National Party. The SNP is no more nationalist than any progressive European social democratic party. There are nationalists in the Scottish context. The Unionist parties are British Nationalists. One party that is safe from having its name taken literally is the Liberal Democrats - now neither liberal nor democrat.
Trust me, only morons and dumbasses think Scotland (and I mean the Lowlands at that) wasn't involved in brutal imperialism. And it makes you kinda an idiot for thinking that it's somehow a misconception. This is like the morons who think Nazism was Nordicist or that Greenland was uninhabited so hence Denmark couldn't have a brutal colonial empire. No they had a brutal colonial empire and contrary to some rather stupid sayings, they were quite big, oppressing Norway, oppressing parts of Germany. They were devils for me.
Shhhhh! We’ve been letting others blame this on the English for years
Cousins owa tha wall. Geordies wee frocks on, haha.
@Stefan Dubois like fuck are we the welsh innocent. We were the original marines. We did most of the fighting and invading. Scotland built the boats that carried the welsh to invade for the English. The perfect triangle.
Catastrophic spelling error there. I think that counts as a self burn
@JayoJay Piss off
@JayoJay you must be one of those fine immigrant fellows, who never commit any sort of crime ever.🙄🤥🤥🤥
This is a weird account of the rise of the Intergalactic Great Empire of Fife. Neither Angus McFife, nor his 12 descendants (also named Angus McFife), nor the Apocalypse Battle of Mars in 1992 that destroyed the Earth and transported the King of California (the Hollywood Hootsman), the valiant hero Angus McFife XIII and the evil wizard Zargothrax to another dimension are mentioned.
Hail Hoots!
Hail to the King of Dundee!!
I simultaneously gagged and laughed when I read king of Dundee
Honestly that place is the last location I would chose to base my intergalactic empire around, unless its' economy was centred around heroin
hahaha nice
Dundea eh. Chips an fash Gary.
is this a reference to something or did u just right a hilarious paragraph about the best alternate history I've ever heard?
@@MatthewBaxter88 It's the overarching plot to Scottish band Gloryhammer's albums... Needless to say they're fucking awesome and well worhta listen.
I don't know if you do requests but I'd like to see a history of Canada (my home country) video from you in the future.
Wales: *sad forgotten noises*
The Welsh are the Real Bretons and Gaelic. Cornwall is also Gaelic.
I've always liked and appreciated the Welsh and there history. Nice people. And I'm English. 👍
I will be going to Pembrokeshire next year for my holidays if corona don't mess things up.
@@johndoe-ss9bz None of those countries are Gaelic
Ireland Scotland and the Isle of Man are Gaelic and the ones you mentioned are Brythonic
Nice thumnail sketch of Scotland, well done. Since you skim over the part on their early adoption of education for all, which led to the Scottish Enlightenment, let me recommend to all interested the book "How the Scots Invented the Modern World" , or, for fast relief, at least a search in the internet.
Thank you for your amazing videos! I think a history of Greece through the ages would be very interesting given the impact it's civilization had at Europe.
Today’s Greeks have nothing in common with ancient Greeks sorry
Comprehensive, accurate and well put together
Im scottish and i just love my accent
fantastic video, a great watch and very informative on the history of Scotland, something that we don't really thing about. However I agree with other comments that the title is a little misleading. Nothing wrong with calling it the History of Scotland extended for example. Anyway, as always I love your videos and keep up the good work!
God bless Scotland! i hope our union continues for many centuries to come and the unfortunate economic divides of the north and south are resolved. with love from England
Awesome vid! Hope to see more about Scotland/England
Have you considered one on Australia and or on NZ ? I know they're storys are short compared to others but non the less interesting wouldn't you say? I'd be interested ! :D
We sent a bunch of prisoners to the other side of the planet and they declared war on emus.
The end.
@@PiousMoltar :: People in Ireland became Convicts for practicing their Religion, for Playing Irish Sports, for catching a Trout or Salmon in an Irish stream.
@@PiousMoltar Cringe
Silly Poms sent their crims to paradise......mate.
FoL: "I'd recommend watching all of my videos. Twice."
Me: "Way ahead of you, buddy."
I am thanking you ,as a woman with Scotch Irish ancestry it is so informative and well put together.Your a brilliant man...Thanks again
Scotland is British, i have no idea why people are trying to constantly separate the scots.
I was waiting for this! Thank you!
As a man of direct male Scottish descent. Scotland was heavily involved Britain's empire from major wars. And involved in the slave trade to the 13 colonies and the Caribbean.
very fun times!
gerard dearie theres a large movement of scottish nationalists who like to paint the "evil" empire as a solely english affair. Despite scots actually being overrepresented.
@@louisromero2320 They are not nationalists. And, the Scots role in empire is irrelevant to the issue of independence. Their sense of gilt shows that they have a conscience. Unlike many English nationalists, who look back on empire with pride.
@@johnkelly3886 English nationalist don't look back at the empire at all
@@jdlc903 There are probably some English nationalists, who do not look back on empire with pride and longing; but most do. The evidence is all over the social media.
My ancestor, John Spottiswoode, was a Scottish historian under James, and Lord Chancellor of Scotland under Charles I. Proud to be of Scottish heritage. Great video!
Who cares?
@@PiousMoltarI did
As an Irish Scot my family played a small but determined part in creating and maintaining the empire. I’m proud of all of this.
"How do you understand all this Quantum Mechanics?"
"We'll, it's less confusing than Scottish History!"
A very thoughtful insight of history , i enjoyed it very much !!
Had no clue Gus Johnson was a British Soldier in the late 1800s.
England wasn't responsible for the lion's share of the formation and administration of the empire, as you state. The Union of Crowns between Scotland and England occurred in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became also James I of England and Ireland. He henceforth became James VI and I. The Kingdoms remained distinct realms until The Union of Parliaments between Scotland and England in 1707. Thereafter, all affairs of, Government, Parliament and, of course, the British Empire were decided by British Members of Parliament. In effect, there was no Scotland and England, as distinct political entities, at least, after 1707. Since then we've had a British Monarchy, British Government, British House of Commons, British House of Lords, British Parliament, and British State. Some people, mainly Americans, refer to the 'Queen of England'. This is inaccurate as there hasn't been a Queen of England since 1707. Also, some often describe Britain as 'England'. I watched an American produced documentary about WWII some time ago ago and the English narrator alluded to "the English Royal Navy". Shocking, and very offensive to proud Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish British people.
You're just basically repeating the information he provided here, why? How does anything of that disprove the fact that England does have the lion's share of everything in Britain?
@@chingizzhylkybayev8575 It doesn't though? England having 80%+ of the UK's population is obviously going to get more representation but Scottish cities like Edinburgh and Aberdeen have the highest incomes of any city in the UK except London. Glasgow is the 3rd largest economy in the UK beating its rival Manchester which has a similar population, and at the height of the empire, Glasgow was the "second city of the empire" dominating the tobacco trade world-wide. Edinburgh alone has 100+ more millionaires than the English city Birmingham which has 700,000+ more people. There's your disapproval.
Geordie Dubya mostly accurate, but Northern Ireland is not part of Britain, but part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It’s a subtle, but actual very important distinction with current internal uk politics.
@@slick_slicers I know Northern Ireland is not part of Britain. I can't see in my post where I said that it was.
Im more offended you blatantly leave out key facts in your comments which mostly include Scots being Slaughtered and even a king you mentioned betrayed by his own peoples in England. Not to mention the fact our last queen was executed whilst under the roof of the queen of England but hey why let facts get in the way of some good old brain washing propaganda.
Another major factor, that contributed Scot's support Union, was the fear of the Jacobites.
If I remember correctly the Highlanders didn't just fight the French but if I recall they clashed against the American Army in the battle of New Orleans.
Grew up with the Rennie brothers descendants of the Colonel that was killed in the British assault.Jackson was a smart leader and fought that battle in the only way possible.Amazing victory!
the scots have been in amerikay since the 1500s(mainly lowlanders. then the british army hired scots highland clans to help fight the spanish and were given large tracts of land in return. one battle was that of..fort king george i believe.
I realy like the pic you are showing while the facts are presented
Great video. I'm from Scotland and thought it was hilarious when you said "wee lad".
Thank god 'Glasgow' was not mentioned otherwise we would have had to listen to him pronounce it as 'glass cow'
@@garymcatear822 Ah, the Glasgae banter.
@@garymcatear822 is it bad to pronounce it "glass-gow" ?
@@OliverFlinn There is no 'glass' in Glasgow, the proper pronunciation is 'glazgo'
@@garymcatear822 yeah sorry, thats what i meant..
I’m from Wales, all I know js that there’s a town in Argentina that speeds welsh
Yes, it's in Patagonia. The original colony almost starved but the Argentinians helped them out. I think there's more of a mix of Spanish and Welsh in most of the area today. People of Spanish Argentinian descent in the area also speak the same Spanish/Welsh mix.
I dunno if there's actually a whole town that speaks Welsh, also it's dying out. Only older people still speak Welsh.
Hell most Argentinians are of Italian heritage but they speak Spanish anyway.
Brilliant video your one of the best history UA-camrs. You should do one on Australia there’s a lot of interesting history (and I’m biased lol)
clans were around alot longer than from the late middle ages , throughout history going back to pictish times . look at the individual history of surnames with 'Mac' in them and you will get an idea . Norman influence in the middle ages made the clan stucture more organised, and it evolved to more modern times but had already been in place .
The Pictish version of mac was Map.
I can trace my family back to 1745 (clan D'hud Gaelic for David) the 'son as affixed when translated in English (sons of clan david) the root name was Clan Chattan (c.1314) the era of the Bruce. I myself was named after a distant relatives clan, the clan Strachan (pronounced Stra-hawn) and the Strachan-Davidson combination has gone unbroken since 1745. My son has the honour of the name and has said he will also (when the chance arises) bestow the same name to his children. Thank you for a great, nay excellent quality video.
I was expecting to see more about Rab C Nesbitt
Absolutely amazing watched both of the documentaries, learnt about the origin of my own clan
I thought it was Gus Johnson in the miniature and was like WTF is this going to be an informative comedy sketch now ? lol
Adam Smith "The Father of Modern Economics"...as mentioned at 50:40, is referenced very often in most books & speeches by the late Dr. Milton Friedman, (Economist, University of Chicago & Nobel Prize)
Smith is also referenced by Dr. Thomas Sowell, a close associate mentored by Milton Friedman.
Both are Very Brilliant Economists....Dr. Sowell is still living & publishing books as recently as 2020. IMO - A National Treasure to the USA, based on the principle teachings of Scotsman, Adam Smith.
Yep, pretty much spot on. Only your second last graphic which showed Elizabeth II as leader of all countries of the UK, she is in fact Elizabeth I of Scotland and does not command the title of Her Royal Highness. I look forward to your next installment in a couple years from now, Why Scotland Left The Uk. :)))
They should have really sorted out regnal numbering 300 years ago, as part of the Acts of Union. I've always thought it should have just been a hard reset: the current queen should be Elizabeth I of the United Kingdom, since... well, she is the first Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom. Churchill's idea of always using the higher regnal number is also a potentially good compromise (in which case, she would still be Elizabeth II), but I'd rather they just started from scratch. Too late now, I guess, unless they just avoid the more problematic names going forward.
Having said all that, and agreeing with the general gist of your comment, you are incorrect. There is no such title as 'Queen of Scotland' (or 'Queen of England', a pet peeve of mine), so she can't be Elizabeth I of Scotland. She's either Elizabeth I of the United Kingdom, or Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. And purely factually (even if we agree it shouldn't be the case), she is Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
And on a personal note, I'm looking forward to his future video entitled "how the UK fixed its problems by federating, and everyone stopped their petty squabbles", but each to their own.
@@monkeymox2544 There was a great stooshie in the last 60s when my father was building what we came to know as the QE2. Job number 736 as she was known was creating a lot of debate over its launch name; How can it be Queen Elizabeth II when she's been built in Scotland and we never had a Queen Elizabeth I? and so on. A great number of the ship yard staff were of course union members and 'Red Clydeside' members of the communist party. After months of negotiations it was settled and she would be known as Queen Elizabeth 2 (as opposed to II) RMS Queen Elizabeth had been built in the same yard in 1946. I know this addresses none of your points but it might be of interest to someone.
@@PaulEcosse What a fantastic bit of trivia!
Thank you for such a learning experience!
We are all brothers and sisters on these islands.
And in the rest of the world. But, soon to citizens of different sovereign states.
@Robert Cawley With hard work, discipline, enterprise and innovation; Scotland, like its Scandinavian neighbours will prosper. We have good reason to have faith in ourselves.
Good and correct attitude. Nicely positive.
Very well done. Thanks...
It benefitted both to begin with. Scotlands debt was paid off, and England got rid of their oldest enemy, and friend of their enemy. Although it was extremely unpopular in Scotland for a while.
Scotland didn't have a debt. The Scots nobles were skint. Difference. Scotland's first National Debt was a share in England's after 1707.
Gizmo Madug I always thought that the scots were taxed to raise enough money for the Darien scheme, which was around 20% of the entire countries wealth at the time?
@@callummcgregorenthusiast5545 No, it wasn't a tax, no more than the English East India company was. It was more like buying a patriotic lottery ticket.
Considering it debt in the modern sense might be a bit problematic, but losing 20% of the country's wealth was still a heavy blow for the nation.
You have no idea how much Scott’s love having our country talked about (true Scott’s anyway)
What the hell is a Scott? We were called Scots last I checked.
Idris McMillan it’s called iPhone 6 auto correct
@@cameronlaing261 twice? I smell shite
I McMillan haha my keyboard is fucked so I can’t rype some letters so I just hope autocorrect gets it right
Was just watching History Buffs' review of Braveheart. Coincidence? I think not.
Aye....the way yuoooo like it.
Enjoyed this very much, thank you
It was not an English army at Culloden. It was more a civil war. Many Scots were on the side of the English. Also, the union of parliaments was decided by very few people. 175 to be exact. All land owning rich people who would get money from the deal. 106 voted yes, 69 voted no. Basically 37 rich people sold Scotland to recoup their losses from the failed American colony. Not exactly democracy.
not exactly slaved by the english either. such a stupid concept
@@robertmclean8358 look you little pea brain fuck. If your country can be sold by a handful of people, and you have no say so and you're transferred with the property...you're a slave. Scotland doesnt deserve to be independent because the men who lead Scotland have always been less than we deserved. We fight each other, we fight our natural allies the Irish, our nobles betray us, and when we put a Scottish king on the throne of England, he sells out and sympathizes more with the English...and by the look of your comment, fellow Scot...nothings changed. I'm sure you're more than content being Englands battered wife, you seem to be trained quite well.
Robert Higgins as well as Irish
Vance McLeod Fucking well said mate, modern Scots are cowards - no pride whatsoever.
Vance McLeod I don’t know what you’d expect to happen when putting a Scottish king on the English throne
Very interesting & informative, love history... I've subscribed 👍
21.58 "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey" by Paul Delaroche
Great job! Very educational and interesting.
Any other Scots here?
@@RobespierreThePoof Aye thats a classic American blunder but the rest of the video is solid.
@@RobespierreThePoof fun fact, scotland is on a different tectonic plate to england, the north american plate
@@wormthirtyfour I hope that was a joke.
@@wormthirtyfour that was true about 390 million years ago, but the plates fused and split up since then, and all of GB is on the European plate. (Iceland on the other hand is half European, half American).
@@michaelbalfour3170 nope
Hi as a proud English man. That was top on. Thanks so much. You certainly did you history. England is a proud and historic country.our identity goes back before the roman invasion. Tens of thousands of years.
You mean Scotland?
OMG I know about the Anglo Saxons arrived in the 6th century that's where the English arrived not before the Romans kingdom of England was formed in the 10th century and Scotland was formed as a kingdom in the 9th century ❤
At first I was like, "what's Gus Johnson doing in the thumbnail?"
You and me both
I think i actually have watched most of your videos twice
Gus johnson definitely
Really would like a video/series on the Ottomans. They've been mentioned a lot in other videos and really deserve their own video
They guy in the thumbnail looks like Gus Johnson
Good series on Scottish history. It is a small but complicated country as seen by it's history. Always in a struggle for its identity and independence over its larger Southern Cousin. Scotlands future history will be impossible to predict, it will take many turns and twists in the future but whether that is part of the UK or not will be a close one. The World has shrunk considerably due to Globalisation, if you are not in that club then things may get difficult and so it may be for an independent Scotland. Scotland should be better off as part of the Union, but the Union has withered. There is no love or respect for it, as the UK media keeps bleating on about disrespectful Scot's, Welsh and Northern Irish it is actually the changing and uncaring face of the people of London and Westminster that are destabilising the Union. London is more interested in becoming the next Singapore and a World City than governing the island of Great Britain, meaning the other nations and many parts of England also either take control of their own destiny or allow Westminster to lead. However, like I said, Westminster or London is more interested in itself and the interests of those who are part of that inner circle, this will be the undoing of the UK. NI will go first, then Scotland. I hope Wales finds a way to protect itself, England will be fine in one form or another but Wales will need to find its way. Wales may feel the over bearing weight of a much larger England if it is left alone by itself. The only reason England holds onto the other Nations now is security of borders and natural resources, but also mainly to keep face as the main undisputed power in the Western European islands.
Chris Petrie yes I believe Brexit will be the last push for NI and Scotland to seek independence. Both want to continue enjoying the trade and economic advantages of the EU and Brexit has made it untenable for NI because of its border with Irish Republic. There’s a chance that NI might prefer to unite with the Republic and reunify the island then to remain in UK/GB. Scotland also wants to remain in EU and thus Brexit brings the independence issue back with a better reason.
Chris Petrie May be all true, but The votes to stay in EU were largely from London, the areas outside voted Brexit. The irony is that decision will lead to the dissolving of GB/UK as neither Scotland nor NI want BREXIT.
Yea, Brexit is a major factor in the further fracturing of the Union. However the EU itself is in trouble and not just because of Brexit, the EU started of as a trading block but has morphed into a political project of monetary centralisation with Germany and France weilding too much power and influence. I remember Brexit happening and a worker from the North of England getting slandered from the press for his so called thicko comment. This worker argued against the comments about UK GDP being damaged by Brexit, his reply was your GDP will be damaged it will not make a difference to me. Of course the press slandered him as GDP is the Gross Domestic Product of the country as a whole. But he was not wrong in a sense as most UK GDP is unevenly distributed and held by our corrupt and opaque financial sector. So what he is saying is his slice and 99% of the rest of the UK populous slice of GDP is pathetic. Uneven wealth distribution is one cause of Brexit which our bullshitting government managed to shove the blame for much of onto the EU, many of our own screw ups were blamed on the EU. Brexit was a two fingered salute to the effects of globalisation and the flight of capital from the country by the people, along with the crap bargaining power of wages due to the threat of relocating globalised cheaper labour elsewhere. Brexit was a symptom of many things, of course a large chunk of the UK electorate are simpletons full of racism and what not too. The UK will fracture due to ignorance and apathy from the centralised powers of London. Like I said the old Empire is dead, the new Empires are centralised global mega cities sucking in all Capital and wealth. This does not go well for any country in the World not just the UK, the USA could have states depart as could Australia and many other European countries. Also one main driver of Brexit was from certain powers in the UK financial sector, take good old peoples champion Nigel Farage (sarcasm), this little worm was acting on behalf of the very people helping capital take flight to off-shore tax havens. The EU was trying to plug up these loop holes that were causing the collossal losses in tax income for many states. The financial cossetting mega cities pushing to keep the loop holes open like the City of London are causing damage to their own outlayer districts that depended on them for leadership. These other districts and states will have no choice but to take their futures into there own hands, however they will be set against the very mega cities that used to control them and it will not be a level playing field. Scotland will suffer whether being in the UK or not.
@@nk53nxg A large chunk of the UK electorate are racist simpletons???? Interesting conclusion. In all international surveys the UK is one of the very least racist countries in the world. Clearly not achievable if a large chunk of the electorate is actually racist. The UK is also the 5th most educated country in the world. Clearly not possible if a large chunk of the electorate are simpletons. I think the difficulty might be your own very limited ability to understand the complex political and economic reasons for why people from the wealthiest to the poorest voted to leave the EU. Interestingly, the group that voted the most as a % were middle aged men with A level or similar professional qualifications, so clearly bright but did not go to university. At the time they were in their teens, a much lower % of people went to university than do now. I think you need to look more closely at the statistics than just parrot mainstream media headlines from the BBC, Guardian and the Independent.
Nice and thorough video. Your passion and love for history shines through your work!
I legit thought it was Gus Johnson on the thumbnail ( a comedy you tube content creator) , but then realized, this is a actual documentary, not comedy and not Gus
@impactofredemption I am glad you appreciate my humor, I want to share a funny story with you. Back in 9th grade math class, I sat next to these 2 guys. One of them was always going on about a "speed pass", which was to have sex with the mom of the guy who sat behind him. I asked the guy behind him if he even knew him, he just shook his head. It made math class more enjoyable
Now, onto the bush of Scottish women, is it plaid?
Ha. He said "James Stuart". Several times. Loved his movies... Jimmy Stuart. (I know...)
Knox, Knox.
Who's there?
The Presbyterians.
I must protest.
I like that allan.
Nice picture of Rothesay Castle
The Scottish were the Englanders mercenaries.
The Scottish (The Orkany Boys) were the manager class of the Hudson's Bay Co.
They and their descendents built Canada and were the richest of the robber barons in the USA 1800 to 2020 see Carnegie....
I think the French were building Canada for a couple of hundred years before the English. It was the United Empire Loyalists who ready were instrumental in building Ontario.
It's not too shabby for a fifer.
I think the Scots 'transported' to America and the subsequent immigrants were the backbone of building America. People like Carnegie were important, or course, but the vast number of new Americans from Scotland were the nuts and bolts of nation building. I recommend a book by Arthur Herman called "How the Scots Invented the Modern World."
nomine * Is that book like “How the Irish Saved Civilization?”
I believe many Scots who “transported” to the US also became “plantation managers” and many settled in the highlands of the Southeast, that being the hills, ridges and “hollers” of Appalachia, bringing their folk music and fiddle, which evolved into what was called “hillbilly,” then bluegrass and now country music. To this day we see their rebellious, independent, “don’t tread on me” spirit, which can be traced to our 1st populist President, and leader of the massacre of the native people, Andrew Johnson right to our current one.
@@pbohearn Andrew Jackson you mean, Andrew Johnson took over after Lincoln was assassinated. Andrew Johnson treated the south like dog shit. He is largely the reason the north south division exists to this day. Southern Americans have more of an identity because they experienced a shared tragedy. If Lincoln would have survived the south would have been introduced back in to the Union with limited hostility. It was warhawks, carpetbaggers and the overall pillaging and vindictive mindset that created an almost English/Scottish divide. We are one country, we shared in our achievements, but we are not the same, and one of us had much less of a choice.
2:05 beautiful drawing of ancient Edinburgh
This is definitely the weirdest video Gus Johnson ever made!
Thank you very much for this video. I never learned any of this in school, and damn this should be something in the education system indeed.
Thank you very much, and good day to you as well. 👍