In happy news, my meta examination of Scottish tropes in international media is back on track. In less happy news, the more I read about how and why they developed, the more furious I get. For example, in 1745, this discussion happened: #scotland #history - ThreadSky

amuseoffyre.bsky.social • 1 day ago

In happy news, my meta examination of Scottish tropes in international media is back on track.
In less happy news, the more I read about how and why they developed, the more furious I get.
For example, in 1745, this discussion happened:
#scotland #history

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amuseoffyre.bsky.social•1 day ago

This was during the planning stages for how to "Civilise" the Highlands, which then involved banning highland clothing under thread of exile and/or pressganging and/or death, enforced English/protestant education, banning their language, child abduction for parents who didn't comply.
Bleak times.

magdatheodd.bsky.social•1 day ago

My husband descends from Clan Forbes. We've been researching his genealogy for years, and the more research you do the uglier it gets. Did you know many highland men were brought to the US colonies as POWs and sold as slaves? https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/how-scottish-pows-were-sold-as-slave-labor-in-new-england/

amuseoffyre.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh yes. I also know in the 1690s, they had to put in law that "no you can't just abduct homeless and poor people to take them to plantations in America as free labour! You have to ask them first!"

ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Have you read Matt Dziennik’s book The Fatal Land? I don’t agree with him 100 percent, but it’s good. I don’t quite get into this in my own work, but definitely press and political ideas about Highland emigration in the post ‘45 era.

amuseoffyre.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I haven't, no. Mostly I'm neck deep in the historical documents so I'm working through those and wanting to bite a lot of people. Also, set the SSPCK on fire, because those horrible, horrible men did so much damage.

ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Dammit. I misread your first post as 'troops' not 'tropes'. So yeah, I've got a whole chapter in my book on Scotophobia in the 1760s-70s in the American colonies.

ghoulscoutcamp.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Oh yeah, I’ve dealt with them in the earlier period of my work. Useless.

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