#highland english

[adhd-merlin]

0:43 "firsht" 😭😭😭

[scotianostra]

On July 1st 1782 the Proscription Act was repealed.

The Government passed two previous acts  in 1716 and 1725 which were aimed at disarming the clans, but which had proved ineffectual. This time they were determined to get it right, even before the act was in place the Butcher, Cumberland’s men set about committing, what, under no uncertain term  s would be described nowadays as war crimes.

The 1746 Act set out its intentions in its opening lines: “An act for the more effectual disarming the highlands of Scotland; and for the more effectual securing the peace of the said highlands; and for restraining the use of the highland dress.”

I will return to the wording, but before I do I want to point out that the wearing of tartan was not included in the act, it would have impossible to enforce, tartan back then was more coarse and not the colourful thig it is today,  it was the type of cloth that was worn by everyone in the Highlands, including women and children.

That’s not to say it wasn’t targeted, it began to be phased out, returning to the wording here it says

“From and after the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and forty seven, no Man or Boy, within that part of Great Britain called Scotland, other than such as shall be employed as Officers and Soldiers in His Majesty’s Forces, shall, on any pretence whatsoever wear or put on the Clothes commonly called Highland Clothes (that is to say) the Plaid, Philabeg, or little Kilt, Trowse, Shoulder Belts, or any part whatsoever of what peculiarly belongs to the Highland Garb; and that no Tartan, or party-coloured Plaid or Stuff shall be used for Great Coats, or for Upper Coats; and if any such Person shall presume after the first day of August, to wear or put on the aforesaid Garments, or any part of them, every such Person so offending, being convicted thereof by the Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses before any Court of Justiciary or any one or more Justices of the Peace for the Shire or Stewartry, or Judge Ordinary of the Place where such Offence shall be committed, shall suffer imprisonment, without Bail, during the space of Six Months, and no longer, and that being convicted for a second Offence before a Court of Justiciary, or at the Circuits, shall be liable to be transported to any of His Majesty’s Plantations beyond the Seas, there to remain for the space of Seven Years.”

So while tartan cloth was not banned, any man wearing Highland dress was liable for transportation. It was not tartan they banned as such, it was dressing like a Highlander, a clansperson.

What the Highlanders wore was not a military uniform, the were plaids and kilts , worn for specific purposes – for instance, they served as blankets when men were out on hills and glens tending sheep and cattle. Taking away the right to wear this type of clothing was part of a systematic campaign to clear the people from the highlands.

I would also point out that the clans, or parts of clans who fought against the Jacobites were also hit by the act. There is plenty of evidence that many lowland Scots also wore elements of Highland dress such as coats, so to ban tartan coats was an unthinking swipe against the Hanoverians’ many allies in other parts of Scotland outside the Highlands and Islands. 

The part in the act that made exemptions to “ Officers and Soldiers in His Majesty’s Forces “, was a very clever ploy. Cumberland and his fellow generals knew what formidable fighters the clansmen were, so why not use the lure of being able to wear the traditional garb as a recruitment aid? 

It is the “disarming” sections of the Act which are truly brutal, and there is evidence that losing the means of defending one’s family drove many Highlanders off their lands, either abroad or often into the Forces.

So the act was repealed  in 1782, mostly at the prompting of the Duke of Montrose and the Highland Society of London. But the damage had been done in the 25 years it was in force, and Highland culture, if not Highland dress, was devastated.

[obrienpolycule]

Hey unironically i think i should be hired by streaming sercives to fix their subtitles. I think there should be a way for viewers/streamers to report bad or inaccurate subtitles or ways they could be improved. I think they should be able to ask for better translations or ask to be told what language is being spoken if they switch languages. I think this should be an option for big blockbusters and random indie movies and international shows/movies and i think streaming companies should stop paying for the cheapest fucking options for their captioning

[erkmurray]

Roadside attractions, Isle of Skye

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[moniquemartinez]

Exterior Stone Dallas Mid-sized traditional red two-story stone gable roof idea

[politicalprocrastinator]

Ncuti's Scottish accent is so lovely if his doctor is English I think he, Tennant, Pcap, and McCoy should be allowed to kill rtd with rocks

[eoinmcgonigal]

Okay for anyone curious about the Dunkirk 'easter egg' I found...

The character of Mr. Dawson is based very heavily (almost exactly) on Charles Lightoller (who had a son called Roger who went to Dunkirk with him, and another son in the RAF who died in the first weeks of the war (but not before telling his dad things that would save lives on the crossing). Sea Cadet George also existed, but what happened in the movie didn't happen to him irl.)

Anyway, Lightoller was an experienced seaman, having been in the merchant service, and he'd been in the Royal Navy Reserve and served during WWI.

He was also the senior surviving officer of the sinking of the Titanic.

In the Titanic movie, Di Caprio's character is Jack Dawson. Mr Dawson.

If the Dunkirk movie character isn't a nod to that, we should all pretend it is because that makes perfect sense. (Maybe everyone already noticed/knew this, I can be a bit slow.)

(Also the fact Lightoller spent all night on an upturned lifeboat after Titanic sank, getting the other survivors to move with the waves to stop it turning over meant he knew how to get the men to do the same on the way back from Dunkirk, when the wake of the bigger ships threatened his small vessel.)

[georgies-ftts]

my rant about americans and how they refuse to believe that british people are allowed to have culture for some reason cause i saw a tiktok and it did it’s job of pissing me tf off and i needed to rant.

getting real fuckin sick of just rude arse americans saying that the british have no culture (in a way that isn’t satire)

Britain consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

i genuinely fucking dare you to go up to someone who was born and raised literally anywhere in Northern Ireland and tell them they have no culture because you will be launched into next fuckin sunday

My mother is Scottish, her parents were both scottish, so we’re their parents and their parents and so on. You want to look my mother in the eyes and tell her she has no culture?

With her four different middle names all deriving from different branches of our family?

that the glengarry that hangs on my aunts wall, that my grandfather wore in the war has no significance to history of our country?

That different sports and songs, though only sports and songs, that carry great meaning, stories, myths, beliefs and history all mean nothing?

that the highest points of our country that stand away from the mainland that date back to at least 500bc are without culture?

that the welsh language, dishes, music, myths, saints, folklore and battles all what? just mean fuck all?

that the english, yes even the fucking english, do not have a culture of their own, one from hundreds of years ago with folk dancing and saints and traditional dresses and flowers and patterns aren’t cultured?

Kilts? Clans? Instruments? Folk songs? Traditional meals? Saints? Myths? Religions? Fucking Halloween?

Piss off genuinely it makes me so unbelievably fucking mad because you refuse to look past a time in history for a second. Not ignore it but just see anything else for a second and see what you’re missing out on, the pure beauty you refuse to acknowledge because you were tainted to believe we’re all a load of arseholes so please for the love of fuck either piss off and leave us alone or just look at the truly amazing history of four different countries and find some fuckin respect jesus h christ.

[theboost]

As a fairly recent convert to being a Highlander head let me just say, killing myself

[binch-i-might-be]

I actually would LOVE to run a bed & breakfast but where I live, while the best place in the world to ME, is not a place people would like to. Go. generally speaking

[hautecouturehues]

[webkinztournament]

[shadowcovcn]

Crowley's middle name, Roderick, was given to him by his grandparents, Finley and Isolde MacLeod. Roderick was their eldest son who died while fighting for the Royalists during the English Civil war in 1645.

Finley and Isolde would go on to be Crowley's primary caregivers for his first few years of life until their deaths when he was around three.

[moonmothmama]

highlander the series is unabashedly ridiculous in a way that you just don't get these days. they don't make tv shows like that anymore.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.”

Words by Robert Burns, photograph by Patrick Lichfield.

[The Queen's English]

[irn-bru]

something i always notice when watching the christmas invasion is that when david tennant first steps out of the tardis and says "did you miss me?" it sounds so Lothian. not to fault his accent abilities, everybody in the UK can do several perfect english accents (bbc mind control), i just think it's kinda funny