History of Scotland in Ten Minutes.... with 30% Bonus Content
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- The History of Scotland condensed into twelve and a half minutes. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey gives you Scottish history in a nutshell as he breaks down the sweep of Scottish history for folks who want an overview
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
My father was Scottish and my mother English, I’ve been trying for 70 years not to stab myself 😂
Ha! Godspeed, sir!
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Same here, yet my DNA test would suggest I'm more Norse than anything else.
Exact same Stuart. I’m English by birth but family all over UK and have supported Scotland in football ever since I went up with my dad and a coach load of Scottish prison officers to Hampden in ‘85.
Brilliant!
Bruce,
My new Saturday normal, is waking up up, grabbing my morning coffee and watching some new Scottish history. Thank you for the lesson and making Scottish history fun.
No English were hurt in the writing of my comments.
Better than one guy who takes me in the lavvie😂
That's hilarious. Mine neither!
Brilliant. I am losing my eyesight and it makes the storytelling so intense. I jump when you shout. It is hilarious. Please keep doing this it's the highlight of my week..
Note.... more shouting
Scottish education…..scared intae ye! Still working then eh?🤣🙈❤️😁🏴
You are funny crazy Jane. X
@@saidahamelin3118 true tho! Learned my times tables by rote cos teacher hit the board every time with a wooden metre stick and dodged-many a flying blackboard eraser too…those things were like bricks!😂🤣🙈🙈😜❤️
Hi! I'm an American, studying Rhetoric in grad school. I'm writing a paper on how the Scottish Revolution, Reformation, and Rebellion impacted the rhetoric of Scottish Enlightenment. While I've been scouring "scholarly sources," I've actually found so much more benefit in watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of Scottish history in a way that is easy to understand and much more interesting. The McDowell and McPheeters roots of mine are grateful. God bless.
"Built by a guy called Tony", thanks for the laugh.
I'm here for you Stephen
@@ScotlandHistoryTours ye're a gent and a skolar! Now, that's aging me.
And I’m glad to see my earliest work remembered! 🤪
I think of all the impositions on Scotland through the ages, the Highland clearances is the one that leaves me with a fire in my belly the most. Great summary of the history - difficult to do but you did it very well.
My mum, RIP, would've loved you. She emigrated to Canada from Glasgow. She always held a grudge against the English. Ironically, although my Dad was 5th gen Canadian, he came from a long lineage of an English family.
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'she always held a grudge against the English' what for? there is a common misconception that England bullied Scotland, they were 2 nations at war, Scots invaded and slaughtered the English just as much as England did to Scotland, the only difference is England doesnt dwell on the past and doesnt blame modern scots for their ancestors constantly invading and slaughtering us which led to England invading in return.
@@v_cpt-phasma_v689 Sorry, she’s passed so I can’t ask her.
@@v_cpt-phasma_v689 it basically comes down to the fact Scotland feel they lost overall (even though the two nations unified peacefully under a Scottish king)
But to put it differently I am Northumbrian and alot of us have no love for Scotland or the Scots simply because we are old enemies.
@@v_cpt-phasma_v689 the English don’t dwell on the past? Then what the he!l was brexit all about then?
absolutely brilliant. Loved your video about Preston in 1715 and shared it with a friend who's ancestor was hanged drawn and quartered after it. Story teller supreme!!!!! Thank you
from a Lancastrian with Scottish and Irish ancestry.
Thanks Robbie
Thank you so much for your time, and most importantly your knowledge.
I'm learning gaidhlig for about 2 months now and i found myself being able to finally read and understand your hoodie! That's so amazing!
That's awesome!
I love the small pictures of you in costume. Brilliant and great for kids education toooo!
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A fabulous video, Bruce. Your knowledge is indeed encyclopaedic with a great way of communicating it. I wish you had been my history teacher 60 years ago. “No that stabby thing. That’ll get ye the jail “. Magic. I’m still laughing at it! You’re really helping my final months on earth, sadly not on my native soil. 😞
Just love your videos. Old retired Scotsman living in Germany
Thanks 👍
You have a good day, too, Bruce.
Plan to Allison
I need that hoodie lad, I hope you have a good day too!
OMG thank you!!! Alba!!!!
I'm in Australia, I am 2nd and 3rd generation on my fathers side, his family came from Turriff
A brilliant form of education and entertainment done iana microwave format...my poor brain is still spinning. Thanks Bruce. I will seek out a breakdown in the smaller chunk videos. Keep up the good work.
All your talks are awesome, but your vids on the Scottish Enlightenment and the Black Watch Soldier are especially interesting! Appreciate what you do, Fummey.
Morning, I promise I won't tickle a English person with a pointy instrument after this.
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Tickle an Englishman? Many of us can't. We"re (using current political borders) Scot, English, Irish, and Welsh
@@robertolds6178 * Scots, i personally amen`t called scot anyway.
who and where are these 'English' people
@@highlandgames2580 Mainly England I assume, though other places too.
I lift a dram of 15-year-old Balvenie in Caribbean cask to your health. I love these videos.
Cheers Bruce 😊
Excellent summarisation.
I stumbled on to one of your videos yesterday. Loving it so far, keep it up brother!
Welcome aboard!
Good morning sir it looks like I turned on the computer at just the right time ! I've only recently discovered your channel and I'm loving the content keep up the good work !
Delighted
Yet another great, entertaining and informative video.
Thanks Euan
I'm so glad I found this channel. Keep up the great work!
Me too
I'm so happy to have found this channel. You have a spirit that not everyone has: you are a great teacher!
Thank you! 😊
Hope this doesn’t lead to me being stabbed but this Englishman can watch your vids all day. I always loved history at school but feel Scottish, Welsh and Irish history is only ever glanced at. What I love about being British, is the history and culture of all the nations and people that make up the United Kingdom makes me culturally richer. I feel like I’m a bit of everything that makes up Britain and can love all our achievements and deplore all our mistakes and failures.
Good work dude, keep doing this, it's great! I hated history at school but love your channel.
Glad you enjoy it!
Was good chatting with you at Duncarron fort, keep up the good work.
Just found this channel and learning so much about my country’s past thank you x
Since I found your channel I'm binge watching through the vids. I love your way of packing it into a short video with your unique humor. I had to move to Germany last year for family reasons, missing Scotland soooo much. Seeing all those places that are dear to me in your clips is just a tonic. Ok, most of the history I know but there is always something to discover with you.
...and don't forget the bonny pictures.
Real Scottish history buff here...only recently found your channel...really enjoying it. No Celtic-hued or Anglophobic nonsense,just straight story telling....you should have a tv show my man,as you are infinitely more engaging and compelling than the limp revisionists destroying our history on the BBC. Good stuff.
Love your videos dude, informative, casual, friendly and some modern humour .. keep up the good work …. Slainte mhath!!
Much appreciated!
Thanks again, Bruce! Another solid presentation!
My pleasure!
Most excellent! Thank you, Bruce, for another wonderful video!
Thanks
Sharing around, thanks, Bruce!
I spent my formative adult years learning Scottish history, but in my early thirties I moved across the border, and I dare you to do the same. I think once we became a recognised part of Europe, and the Italian Wars begun, we've became just another part of the huge puzzle. I certainly condemn much of what happened in the past, all the way up to the 18th century and beyond, however, modernity was much more important, we were just on the wrong side many of us Scots, though, many of us were on the victorious side, but this helped Scotland become the foremost intellectual civilisation, not just in Europe, but the modern world as it was then known. To learn English history, is to learn about law, commerce and English libertarianism, then you'll know, the English are not out enemy. We dominated London from the American Revolution forward, rebuilding Britain and then America who have done so much for the world despite those people holding onto centuries old feuds they never took part in.
Great video Bruce!
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi, I just found your channel a few days ago randomly after it was in my recommendations and I’ve got to say… it’s pretty damn good! I recognised your face in a thumbnail because I was a student at Perth High School and I remember that you covered my class or something a few years back. So I clicked on it and I was honestly surprised by just how great your videos are. The passion you have for the history of our country and the effort you put into the creation of these videos is obvious and I honestly feel I have learned more about Scotland’s history from your channel in the last couple days than I ever did in all my years at school. Keep up the great work man! :D
Yay😎
Really informative and interesting. Thanks much!
Thank YOU
Love this stuff really good job keep up the good work
Thank you!
That opener was great. The summary was fantastic.
Ah yes, the famous Tony Maceroni wall from the Clyde to the Forth.
You knew him?😮
Ah yes, a Pink Panther fan.
I in joy the History much thanks!! I had to find out my family history by my self, all though I had bits & We little Pieces your Presentations are well done.
Really very excellent. Enjoyed the humour too. 👍
Thank you
Came across your channal recently and have watched quite a few vids. I'm not Scottish, but am one of your cousins from across the Irish Sea. I love your passion for your own history and your story telling and the delivery of your history is excellent. It's nicely presented to dip in and out of without getting bogged down in 'detailitus'.
Carry on Scotland!
That's awesome! That's what I was going for😁
Wonderful abridged history lesson 👍🏻 not sure if you’ve covered it already and definitely not one for your walking tours but would love to here you go over the I’ll fated Darien Venture
There are plans. Question is how to do it without raising a political storm
Enjoyed this! I’ve got to dig into Scottish history a bit more. Trying to find where my ancestors, especially Andrew Cant from Aberdeenshire fits in. Going to be fun digging! Thanks for whetting my appetite!
After looking up The Stone of Destiny, your channel popped up fortuitously in my feed, and I'm much the better for it! Desperately needed an antidote to the gloom and doom/prepper/economic collapse/"precision sports" videos I usually watch on TH-cam : ) Looking forward to watching many more of these videos along with my morning coffee and the occasional weekend tumbler of bourbon. From Austin, Texas, Salud!!!! 🥃
Happy Father's Day and thank you for the videos
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Tapadh leat Bruce! Great video. Will watch a few times through.
Good lad
Awesome video.
Thanks Kevin
I absolutely love these videos. Bruce is some guy 👍
my great grandparents on my mother's side where Scottish Walkingshaw's why they moved south i'll never understand! the highlands have always felt like a spritual home. hope to get back up there again soon. love your channel man, just the right mix of history and humor. keep up the good work
Thanks for the quick recap.
You mentioned that people of Scottish decent outside Scotland care more about the clan system than those who still live in Scotland. I opine that it has to do with a sense of identity. I think there's a correlation with the deconstruction of the "American meta narrative" which has caused more people of European descent to look farther into the past for a sense of identity, and when we find it, we hold on tight, guard it, and sometimes get nasty fighting for it. Case in point, I (an American) qualify to apply for membership in the Clan Gregor Society, but not the American Clan Gregor Society (go figure).
On a sillier note, I continue to appreciate the liberally sprinkled witticisms in your videos. Here are a few of my favorites from this one:
"So, if you can get to the end without stabbing an Englishman..."
"...and the stabby thing will get you the jail..."
"Obviously Nessie has always been Scottish."
"...a wall...built by a guy called 'Tony'..."
"Some non-Gaelic speakers incorrectly call it 'Alba.' Stop it!"
"...although it's thought that her son, James, was also a queen."
"It was also during the reign of James the sixth that the Mayflower set sail to the Americas to organize a Thanksgiving dinner."
"Most of them became actors in the T.V. series, 'Outlander.'"
Scotsman living in England just found your channel bro top drawer Peace
my new binge channel! thanks
Welcome!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Already through five or six videos, Ill be done in a week!
Awesome!
Thank you
I really enjoy your videos. I going to recommend your video to a friend of mine because he is from a town near Aberdeen and he wishes at times to visit again. He really enjoy catching up with me because we both wear kilts (only a small part we catch up) and we talk about Scotland. I believe he would enjoy your videos too.
Please do!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours You make my day and weeks as I wait for videos. I was in Scotland in 2014 and due to the Coronavirus I couldn't back when I planned 2020. You giving me more insight then a visit from Australia.
Well, that was impressive! 11/10!
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If you make it through without stabbing an Englishman….
Hahaha! Having coffee come out your nose isn’t great but that one was worth it.
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He throws it out so fast and under the radar that you almost miss it. Funny Bastard!
PS: I had coffee shoot out my nose the other day, it wasn't pretty. lol
Shame on me. I've been watching your videos chronologically but when I saw this topic I just couldn't resist breaking protocol and sneaking a peak. So glad I did. Great video. I'm still chuckling over your terrible jokes. Thanks very much!!
Finally I get it, best explanation ever.
I like you
@@ScotlandHistoryTours many thanks, we need more people explaining history in this way. Not only for Scotland and GB but for the whole world.
Saw you today at Duncarron, should have come talked to you. Love the channel.
Yes you should. Next time!
5:50 is a Golden reaction ^^
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Again, excellent. I would love your take on Princess Scota (please?).
I feel like I've become at least one of, and I hope there are more of us too because the channel is so excellent, the channel's resident Englishman. ps no stabbing, thanks.
I think there's a few, but you're welcome none the less
I saw you at Duncarron! Just spotted a thumbnail on youtube there and thought "Hey... I know that face!" Was there when the wood cutting boys were asking if you spoke Gaelic :D Great channel btw, will definitely be getting a load of these videos watched :D
Loved this, and will be watching it a few more times until it all sinks in, plus obviously catching up on all your other linked videos. I'm lucky to have plenty of time on my hands to read books as well, could you possibly include a recommended reading list on various periods in Scottish history, (I know, a very broad question, sorry)...or have I missed that ?
In some videos I've included suggested books
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Brilliant, thank you, I'm working my way through all the videos, great fun and very interesting and educational, top man !
I appreciate and enjoy your point of view and your historical videos even though I think you and I may sit on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
We can do that without falling out. Don't let the nut jobs either side say otherwise
I’m Irish, Scottish, Jewish, and German. I would love to visit Ireland, Scotland, Israel, and Germany one day
Great video and is certainly concise enough, it is very difficult to go through such Scottish history in a short space of time, so credit to yourself. Having been born and brought up in Glasgow, I'm proud of my heritage, I have my own belief about the Picts as I don't believe they were wiped out, but would no doubt have intermingled and the name would've disappeared much like you have argued.
Currently reading the Long War for Britannia by Edwin Pace, something that may interest you, it mentioned how our people (Picts) and the Irish made numerous invasions around the wall by boats and invaded during periods when the Romans were at civil war fighting in the East of the Empire.
Something I would love to see your opinion of, however, would be the story of Rome's 9th legion going missing north of the wall. Who knows how true that is, but in Edwin Pace's book 'The Long War for Britannia' he does mention how Picts captured Romans and kept them as slaves. Something I find intriguing.
As for all the religious nonsense and division, a sad part of the history I'm afraid.
I hope you have a great day too (I used an online translator to read your jumper) :-)
Do you agree or disagree that the Darien Scheme (some say Scotland go at Colonialism) was a motivation in why Scotland signed up to the Acts of Union?
Trying to put together something on that very subject
Yes, of course, that bankrupted the country. The English paid their debts in exchange for submission. Worst deal ever. And what's even worse, Scottish people don't even know this history, I don't think it's taught in schools. The English took advantage of the Scots with every opportunity. As with all things, to find the reasons why, you only have to follow the money.
@b n Not for free they didn't and we all know the rest. The expedition failed because the English didn't help the Scottish settlers at all. In fact, by order of the King, all English colonies were ordered to stop trade with the Scots. The English watched while the Spanish attacked the Scots. The Spanish actually showed more mercy in the end and let the surviving colonists go free. All in all, the English did everything right to ensure the demise of the Scottish expedition and keep a tight leash for hundreds of years to come. Never equals, always "in debt". These are historical facts.
@@levyroth they paid the nobility's debts. There was no such concept as national debt in Scotland, unlike the English state who'd been lumbered with the crown's war debts since Henry VIII. A condition of paying the nobles' personal debts was that the Scottish state took on a portion of England's national debt. This move further impoverished ordinary Scots for decades.
@@levyroth shouldn't have got in debt I guess
Excellent brief overview! ABE
Love this! I am visiting Scotland in the Fall/September to see where my Kennedy Ancestors lives: Gilbert William Kennedy / Maybole Castle, Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland. My Kennedy's in Scotland actually left for Ireland in the early 1700s. Through Ancestry DNA, I found that some even left for the Carolinas in North America. Next year, I hope to visit Tipperary (County), Ireland, where my great-grandfather, James Kennedy was originally from.
Many Englishmen also have Scots ancestry due to movements within Britsin during the Industrial Revolution and later. My maternal Great Grandfather was a train driver on Teesside in the early part of the last century. I believe there were also Scots amongst my paternal ancestry.
My experience is that many people in the North East of England identify more with Scots than with their fellow Englishmen in the South of England.
@@jays2877 well we are closer to Edinburgh (a one time Northumberland township (and no we don't want it back)) than London and get treated equally badly by Westminster.
@@jays2877 Nope I'm a Geordie and I'm English not Scottish. What we do share is the distain for the political elite that governs us.
Great sense of humor
Tell my missus😜
I quite enjoy your videos. You should take pride in your excellent history.
I am!😊
I like the prom 'real' English analogy.
True
I'm in Carlisle any chance you can talk about how Carlisle was part of Scotland and then became part of England. Great Channel
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Trying to learn Scottish history growing up was confusing.
The lesson learned, "If it only was that simple."That was answer to most of my questions.
I do remember hearing about Pittsboro but Anyways. I hope other people see the layers in Bruce's stories.
Awesome channel! Do you cover folk lore, ancient gods and magic? Either way my initial statement stands and with that in mind: Thanks for the knowledge brilliantly conveyed!
No, but there must be channels out there that do
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I've found a few decent websites but not much in the ways of youtube, the hunt continues! Glad to have found your youtube though and I hope ye go from strength to strength!
I'm so sorry, my direct ancestor was William the Great, I am part Norman, I still don't know a lot about my ancestors as kings and Royals, I'm glad your around to inform me. I want to learn the good and bad of my old family. Fun fact though, I'm James and my family had 3 James names, and several Williams, I was told we were carrying the family's 1st names to preserve them.
" Detail and nuance" Wow!! Got me. Sharin' wi a the baheid's in the Antipodes!!
Guid lad
Just seen you on the boat over to Inverie
...and you didnae say hello?
Congratulations on the footy last night Bruv, Well played. Your Channel has Great content. Thanks for sharing. One Love x
I wisnae playin'😊
perfect cure fir ma hangover 😎
Dammit, it disnae work on mine
I was the first person in my family to return to South Uist after my forebears were shipped off to Prince Edward island.in the Clearances . No offense, South Uist was a lovely spot, but I returned home grateful to the sheep.
Love the comment about Nessie always having been Scotland!
Didn't get the prom comment. Who does or doesn't use prom?
John Grant. Who would have thought. In Constantinople. Long way from home.
Watching Netflix ‘Rise of Empires: Ottoman’ S1 E3.
BUT narrator called him British. Now being a mere provincial Aussie my ears pricked at that statement.
Mr Grant sounds like a character. Using Greek fire. Go go jock 🇦🇺
3:45 okay will do sir
That's the spirit
Every country deserves it's own independence. The time of empires, Kings and queens is over
"Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long in freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished."
[A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797, 3: The Same Subject Continued]
Scots have had to opportunities to vote for independence and decided to remain part of the Union, surely democracy trumps independence.
There is no Empire and the Act of Union and
Merging of the Crowns 👑 happened at different time
James VI of Scotland became
James I in England 1603
The Scottish King became English King .
The Act of Union
came 17
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Opportunity*
Democracy starts to look a bit false when you look at the make up of the commons, let alone mentioning the house of Lords.
Democracy is the ever changing development to a better future, therefore things pass after being rejected or when circumstances change
@@jamesstewart2176. Very true, but the SNP asked for a once in a generation vote and got it. They then voted to remain with the union. Plus Scotland has its own Parliament something that the English don’t have - we have to share ours with the folks from NI, Wales and of course 50 odd SNP MP. Perhaps once the fair Nicola actually publishes her plans for Scottish independence including stuff like currency, border control, armed forces, the health system, and little matters like pensions then the Scots will understand exactly what they voting for.
Wow. I'd never even attempt such a feat.
Got to try😊
9 generations removed from Scotland and still, it stirs a strange feeling in my gut. I'll get there one day, hopefully to stay.
We're all waiting for you
As an aside, have you ever read Farley Mowat's _The Farfarers_ ? His premise is that Northern islanders (Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetlands, etc.) were the first to colonize Iceland, continuing on to Greenland and North America; partly in pursuit of walrus-hunting grounds, partly because of pressure from Norse invaders. He makes an interesting case, although the evidence has not been entirely conclusive...
Don't know the guy. Jings, another thing on the reading list
I have to say, your videos are absolutely brilliant. You and I are likely on somewhat opposing sides of the political spectrum, but I would love to sit and discuss over a pint or three. I would bet we could come to common ground. Sad that our governments can't do the same. Please keep it up. I love the equanimity and lack of political browbeating in your historical stories, with a nice touch of humour (the "u" added as a nod to your UK sensibilities). Alba Go Bragh and God Bless the USA (and the Declaration of Arbroath which helped found it all)
Thanks for playing Doug
Cracked me up ✌️✊😁
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