Bitter Lessons From Scotland's History?... The Archbishop's Murder

[@bobmcclure8069]

I am a teacher in the US. I have taught Physics in a High School in Pennsylvania for 37 years. When I have a particularly good lesson, one where I feel like I was spot on, I make sure I watch one of Richard Feynman's lectures to remind myself that I might be good, but I'm no Feynman and I need to remind myself of this. Bruce teaches and explains almost at the Feynman level. I always learn from Bruce, I always have something to think about, and I always know that when I hear, 'Let me tell you a story...', it will be outstanding teaching. Thank you Bruce. You are a treasure...

[@genuinefreewilly5706]

It is a brilliant thing Richard Feynman's lectures are online. I remember when he was investigating the Challenger disaster. He received a lot of sharp blowback and criticism from many sides. Like Bruce definitely an amazing communicator

[@pamelamorrison4086]

History repeats itself Has to No-one listens ~Steve Turner~ A profound truth, tragically Thanks again, Bruce - another excellent video

[@helenswan705]

Actually, the reason I am here is you. I am not Scots, well my Dad's Mother was half Scots. But you have the ability to make education so digestible, so real and such fun, because of your infectious enthusiasm. And sometimes you ask us some quite stirring questions. I reckon you could do a video about rawlplugs and I would love it! Seasons Greetings and Happy Solstice to Bruce and everyone. Tomorrows day will be a few seconds longer.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yaaaaay

[@tiffanyannhowe1712]

Chills at the line “history repeats itself. It has to. No one listens.” Thank you Mr Fummey. May your holiday be merry and bright.

[@DraigBlackCat]

No family links to Scotland, my interest is simply that wanted to address my very basic, anglocentric, view of Scottish history and I love the presentation.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks for joining in

[@davidmclean3465]

Once again you tell a thought provoking and timely story. Well done! History doesn't repeat itself but it sure does rhyme... over and over again.

[@rabby-u]

Yes, that's a clearer picture. ❤

[@jackiemartin5441]

From South Carolina and I am proud to say that I’m a descendent of Covenanters. I chose their side from the moment you asked at the beginning of this wonderful video. I still belong to an Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church here and there are many more all over this area. Very traditional and Bible believing. Many of the members fought and died and were heroes of the American Revolution. Very proud and that obstinate side of me understands them. Now to your next video. I wish you would come to SC?!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

By American revolution I take it you mean tthe tax dodging rebellion😜😜

[@jackiemartin5441]

@ I’m laughing so hard after reading your question. I believe it was taxation without representation!

[@reb0118]

​@@jackiemartin5441more like too much representation for not too much taxation. 😂 It could be argued that the average citizen in the Thirteen Colonies was the most represented of all British subjects (what with their local assemblies et al.). Remember, hardly anyone had representation of any kind at that time. Politics was a closed shop (actually has that changed?...🤔).

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

@@jackiemartin5441 No, I know. It's the fairy story you tell yourseves. There were loads of folks in the post rebellion country that continued faced taxation without representation. Don't worry, I know we have our own fairy stories too. It's these legends that bind counties together with a sense of patriotism, but they're all fairy stories, no matter the nation.

[@jackiemartin5441]

@@reb0118 we didn’t want a king. We were new and fresh with new thoughts and ideas. We acted on them and that is why we wanted our own nation for better or worse.

[@frankgellenthin3733]

Another excellent video, Bruce. Your way of provoking serious thought about a subject is rare these days. Merry Christmas to you and your family from across the Pond!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you kindly. I hope you have a wonderful festive

[@jaycee6996]

My late wife had an ancestor who was a prominent Covenanter and was sought by Claverhouse. It was claimed that he was shot dead in front of his wife and children by Claverhouse. His grave and memorial still exist.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@frenzalrhomb6919]

​@@ScotlandHistoryTours Were the Covenanters sent to colonise the 7 Counties that make up the English enclave of Northern Ireland? I'm sure you'll know what the answer is! I hope to see you at your Sydney show, anyway, Merry Christmas, from Australia .. 🍺 🇦🇺

[@reb0118]

​@frenzalrhomb6919 not really (but also yes in part). The Plantations mainly occurred before The Covenant began. However, many Covenanters moved to Ulster & parts of Connaught to escape persecution in Scotland. There was discrimination in Ireland too, so after a generation or two their descendents moved again to the Thirteen Colonies.

[@Linda-z2t]

My husband's ancestor was a minister in Scotland in 1740. Conflict drove him to N. Ireland then the US. The history of religion in Scotland is very interesting. Thank you, Bruce.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

You're welcome. It's a good job there's never been religious conflict in Ireland or US😜

[@Linda-z2t]

@ScotlandHistoryTours Laughter is the best medicine. Thank you.

[@PixieDustedTara]

Another great video Bruce You are so talented! Merry Christmas to the Fummey family🎄

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks, you too!

[@kierananderson5807]

Hope your 16 day tour went well Bruce. I bumped into you at Rosslyn chapel this autumn. This is a fantastic video here. I think it is wonderful that you don't shy away from the necessary dark and ironic realities of our country. Keep it up. :)

[@ThatElfTorunn]

Saturday is Bruce day! Love a new upload from my favourite history channel.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Morning!

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Thanks Bruce, for another very cool and enlightening story! It always surprises me how much Scottish thought has gone into American philosophy. The fact that these graves and monuments can be so close to each other without being maligned in the modern age is proof of this. I was raised in the Episcopal church. It was, back then, the most liberal of the churches in my southern state! I didn't even know it had connections to the Anglican Church of England until I was a teenager and was shocked to find out that the church my history classes had taught me was evil had also brought forth the loving church I was raised in! It was the first time I had to reconcile the idea that right and wrong could technically come from the same point of origin when placed in different hands. You asked why I learn Scottish history. Apart from your storytelling, which is always fantastic, I suppose that I'm one of those folks who still hold onto the idea that horrific history shouldn't repeat itself and we'll learn that someday! I guess I'm foolish in that way, but I won't change that belief one iota! At least in death, we can find a way to commemorate all who brought us to where we are, for better or worse. Like you, I always hope it will be for better! I hope that you and yours have a very Happy Christmas! 🎅 A very Happy Holidays to all of your viewers too, wherever they are! 😊 🎄🌟✡🎁🎊❤

[@callumgordon1668]

Another excellent video. I’m from St Andrews and this added detail I didn’t know and I’ve never visited those locations. A mate of mine runs ghost & golfing tours in St Andrews. Most of his mates and myself are sceptical about the ghost stuff, but by default his tours are excellent on the history of the town, particularly the reformation and of course Archbishop Sharp’s coach plays a prominent place.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@murrayscott9546]

Well, Brucey-boy. Jes when I thought all the lights had gone out in this world, along came you. Pray wirh me .

[@nancyM1313-Boo]

Hello Bruce Merry Christmas🎄🕊

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

and a Happy new year

[@duncanwilliams4534]

Thanks!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks so much

[@jameshorne9351]

Another great video as usual Bruce, I loved your Star Wars reference, it was perfection.. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😁

[@DanielE-dk1ws]

I am Stewart. Love your Channel. ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤

[@Hrossey]

Look into Orkney Earls and check out the Earls Palace in Birsay if you wanna learn more about your Stewart ancestors sir 😇 The seat of the Stewart’s x

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

The channel loves you😘

[@irenepaulton3392]

That poem by Steve Turner is one of my all time favourites and, like you, it influenced my interest in history a lot. Also, if I had known you were only 4 miles away, I would have happily met up with you and had a real coffee! I often go to Bishops Wood to do the circular walk up to the Covenanters' grave and back past the memorial pyramid to Shairp.

[@rabby-u]

Good question Bruce. I've been arguing with myself for the past forty years that same question. And with each new day, I'm getting closer and just when one side wins the day, it all falls apart. But the answer is getting clearer and i'lll know it on the other side I'm sure.❤ Slainte mhath!

[@melissavancleave8686]

Again I am wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and thanking you for acquired knowledge and interest. I wish i could remember how many holidays it has been. You feel like family now. Thanks again.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant! Thank you

[@Allastrology]

Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa everyone ❤❄🎄✡☮🕎❄❤☃️

[@etiennesharp]

No relation as far as I'm aware, but it's interesting seeing someone who shares a surname become a wrong 'un. Except he may not have been. That's those shades of grey that make Scottish history so interesting.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It's all about perspective

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍 and Merry Christmas to you and your family 😊

[@lorrainegrattan8528]

I'm interested in Scotland because my family originated from there. I come from NI with lot of Scottish influence here. Love your videos 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

What about ye?

[@lorrainegrattan8528]

​​​@@ScotlandHistoryTours fine to middling Hun ☺️ Blessings from my home to yours.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀🍀

[@Soduhpop76]

First! Love your videos!!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Well done

[@tina6824]

I like learning about Scottish history because I was adopted and raised by not Scottish people - but my DNA tests pointed me to online family trees that show I am mostly Scottish. It is interesting to learn about what was going on when my ancestors were making decisions that affect how we came to be in Canada.

[@alistairkilpatrick3907]

Another great vid bruce. Happy christmas tae you and yir kin hope yis hae a brilliant time aw the best and lang may yir lum reek🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Same to you!

[@stevetournay6103]

"History repeats itself. It has to. No one listens." Oh for that not to be true...😢

[@kentait66]

Brilliant presentation, as ever, Bruce!😎👍 (This channel outta be a must for History studies in schools, far & near!) So many profundities about the history of our people... (Whilst SO MUCH adversity came from without/South, I'm always stricken by how much yet came from the betrayals & warring within!) An uncle of mine (a Fifer) used to mention that he'd thought many Jacobites were actually Episcopalians... (I wonder if that's true???)🤔 ... then to think of 'The Covenanters,' all/most of our own family in Ulster have a Covenanter past; & indeed (with a "No Surrender" ethic) half a million of 'em all signed up for their own 'Covenant' in 1912! Many thanks for such an invaluable historical resource... (These all are!)☺️👍 All the best to your dear Wife🌹& the rest of the Fam! Have a great Christmas! (🤭Riding a wee bit low☺️I see😜but they're yet a point above Hearts!)😂

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye, most Jacobites Were Episcopalean

[@bobsteele9581]

Another great video Bruce. Although I'm not religeous myself, I've always been interested in the Covenanters, ever since I visited one of their grave yards with my Mum and Dad as a wee boy (just over a mile from our house). Oh and sorry about this, but I just can't resist - Charles 1st completely lost the heed 😉

[@Wee_Langside]

In answer to your initial question all of the above. C'mon you Saints⚽️ I'm always impressed by the number of humans who choose active resistance and potential or actual death for what they believe. More of a passive aggressive person myself. Wasn't celebrating Christmas illegal in Scotland in 1679? Still a lot of dogma around the country, people need a religion and the disciples need non-believers to persecute, now for people who don't believe in a God it's the climate. Good to be reminded of dark stains on our nation's history. Thank you Bruce.

[@RichWoods23]

Climate change -- unlike God -- has solid evidence in its favour. But neither are welcome.

[@shankarmall8340]

Hi Bruce, another smashing video as always, even if the subject matter is quite unpleasant. As an Edinburgh resident, a video focusing on the Pentlands Rising and the battle of Rullion Green would be great - I can't find that much information about it on here, and I would love to hear you tell the story! Cheers!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm sure we'll get round to it. To be fair folks from Edinburgh do quite well out of me compared to folks in Glasgow😜

[@shankarmall8340]

@ScotlandHistoryTours aye that's true tbf haha, but you gave the weegies a video last week! 😜 Looking forward to next week's video Cheers!

[@philomenahearn1717]

You are absolutely right, Bruce. Revolution could be just round the corner for us all and neither side will really win…. At least the “people” will suffer while the ones really in power at the top will remain unscathed. Look at Syria, Persia, Yugoslavia, Serbia etc.and yet do we ( the human race) ever learn?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@ApathyParabellum]

What I always find, as a subscriber to historical materialism, is that the keystone every injustice turns around is class and its reinforcement.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@downtownxmastree6074]

I’ve forsaken Twitter for the time being yet it pains me to not being able to share this particular video there right now.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Feel free to share it elsewhere😎

[@TX-biker]

Merry Christmas from the great(est) state of Texas. You give both sides of an issue equal time, and help show cause and effect. History isn’t always tidy💁🏽‍♂️ Decisions are not always easy

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Indeed

[@TheRastler]

I was taught that History was the means by which we learn, unfortunately it must have fallen on many deaf ears. ( Goodlyburn Secondary 1967 ).

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye, true

[@robinsmith5442]

I love history and I want to learn about where a lot of my ancestors came from even though my ancestry account says my Scots Irish belong to Ireland.

[@edithengel2284]

Sharp's daughter Isabella survived, though she was wounded in an attempt to protect her father.

[@marypasco2213]

Absolutely LOVE(D) your 'classroom' in this video. I think I would have been in trouble back then. I'm 'spiritual', but not religious. Everyone is on a path to whatever God they believe in. I should have said they all believe in the same Heavenly Being. They just have different roads for getting there. Happy Holidays.

[@igorscot4971]

Archbishop Sharp tomb was opened in 1849, but apparently the body of the Archbishop was removed in 1725. It whereabouts are unknown.

[@davidmartin2957]

Unfortunately in the 15th and 16th and the 17th centuries I would have been burned as a heretical monster, shame being a Tibetan Buddhist but that’s a whole different story. lol.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye, but would you have been that then?🤔

[@davidmartin2957]

@@ScotlandHistoryTourstrue. Living in a covenanting village in fact in an English church I and my family became the first family on the census to do so I even became the first Buddhist in the village ( no welsh jokes) the church was an ecumenical union one. But that’s a different story.

[@katiemoyer8679]

Not to worry, plenty of interests & belief systems to surrender your life for back then 💁🏻‍♀️

[@seanH1768]

Wasn’t the Scots first prayer book called the Carmina Gaedilca ?

[@peterkelly1665]

Lesson learned the things people do in the name of a particular brand of worship do not change. Back in time of reformation brutal, current religious wars still brutal ,. But we do not learn form history we just repeat it

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

Can you release an upload on Xmas, please? I'll need something to break up the silence. Thanks.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

As long as Christmas is on a Saturday

[@fatherted79]

Where can I get that hoodie!?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

That particular hoodie was made exclusively for the folks who came on my 60th birthday tour in September, so there are no more I'm afraid. There are others in my shop at scotland-history-tours.creator-spring.com

[@fatherted79]

@ScotlandHistoryTours thank you, too late for Christmas but not for me!

[@elizabethlyons1066]

I would have stayed Catholic like my Jacobite ancestors.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

To be fair this particular conflict was between two different flavours of Protestant religions. As with the Jacobites Scotland was predominantly Protestant, although there were, of course Catholics kicking around. I'm guessing they would have been 'beyond the pale' as it were

[@moodymoody5397]

Also came across James Moody sax and flute man amazing black American musician. Dan Moody who took down the kkk in 1921 i think they where all Scottish Americans black and white Jacobites descendants

[@stevetournay6103]

Twitter, Bruce? What the X is that? I think I see what you did there...

[@alansmithee8831]

A'reyt Bruce. Another video to remind me that "Oh come all ye faithful " was allegedly an English Jacobite song disguised as a Christmas carol. I suppose that could have been a statement in itself after Cromwell's pals cancelled Christmas? With stuff about the "English church", "King Charles", "traitor" and "not my king" you were starting to sound like a channel for English nationalists. I sometimes wonder whether Scottish nationalists watch such stuff? One advantage of being from my county is that I can leave arguments to others and just say "Be reyt wi' folk". Happy Christmas or Yuletide and New Year or Hogmanay to you and anyone reading this comment.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😎😜

[@murrayscott9546]

Upa .

[@empatheticrambo4890]

Huh, I wonder if this has any cultural or theological connection to the Brethren Christian communities I think were in the 1800s and 1900s? That’s how my grandfather was raised in Glasgow

[@anulfadventures]

What's the other one? "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (I paraphrase here) So any "modern" thinking person(there is no God or he wouldn't have let any of this happen) who didn't want to have anything to do with either side would have been crushed between the two of them.

[@ianpattison841]

Charles I Really lived up to his description “The wisest fool in Christendom”

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

No, that was the description of his father, James VI