When Scotland BANNED Christmas

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

My ex's family were Scottish, so we went over for the holidays over Christmas/New Year's, and it's where i first heard the bagpipes played live, in a more original context than pop culture represents, and i bawled like a baby, it was so beautiful. We went to Hogmanay in Edinburgh, and i had whiskey for the first time (technically 14 whiskeys). :) That was the same trip where i discovered UK Christmas music like "Stop the Cavalry" "Mary's Boy Child" "I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day" and so much more awesome modern/pop holiday tunes. It's also when i discovered how much the Scottish love to sing, and they know the words to everything. Some of my fave memories are of singing karaoke with strangers in Forfar.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

It's seriously never too late. A good partner or trusted friend who could tend to your basics/business for even 10 days would give you a dream journey, honestly! The bluish-purple of the sky, the sweet dusty smell of the fields of yellow flowers in the summer (don't know what plant?), and even the acoustics of a different landscape or the massive, resonant cathedrals with traditional choral music or their majestic bells... You can do it!! :) @@viscache1

[@scotlandunplugged]

Ah, I never thought about Christmas tunes being uniquely UK. Makes sense that Slade would be peculiar to us 😂

[@slydermartin6008]

Every story about Scotland starts with "It's Complicated". It's the explanation I use when friends and family ask why I've been a visitor for going on 50 years although the family that have traveled there with me "get it". ( It's not really that complicated ). Merry Christmas and Happy Hogmanay Robert to you and your Family!

[@scotlandunplugged]

It’s true! 😂 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes 🙂

[@alanaw27]

I was a child in 1950’s Scotland and it very much was a working day for most people. We children has stockings and we did have gifts from Father Christmas and our close family. My father’s young cousin died and his funeral was on Christmas Day 1951. It all seems so strange compared to how things are done now but it was alway spoken as, Christmas for the children and New Year for the adults. Both still feature lots of family and friends and lovely food and drink and we in Scotland have public holidays for both.

[@davidpaterson2309]

Very similar memories. My father had a shop and his “January” Sale started on Boxing Day, which wasn’t a public holiday and didn’t register much with a lot of Scots - I remember my mother telling me it was “an English thing, I suppose”! And though many people did have Christmas Day (civil servants, retail etc) some didn’t - eg trades; my uncle was a joiner and arrived for Christmas dinner in his brown overalls, straight from a building site, and got changed.

[@suellenspencer-eb2nv]

Get better soon. Cold & flu abound across the pond in the Mitten state of Michigan. 😢❤❤❤

[@lindaarmstrongjackman9788]

Hogmanay is celebrated here in Peterborough, Ontario, at the home where Sir Sandford Fleming lived. The home was turned into a living museum many decades ago. 😊

[@helpinyerdasellavon]

Thank you for this wonderful historical lesson about this festive season. Bonnie Scotland is always a treat all year round. Merry Christmas, Robert 🎄🎁🌟

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas! 🙂

[@alicegamble6145]

Awesome story. Its amazing the history behind Christmas. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to everyone.

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas 🙂

[@haggielady]

I hope everyone enjoys the holidays this year, whatever you may call it!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you. You too! 🙂

[@oldschoolman1444]

Happy winter solstice! 😊 🥂

[@jamesvoiss7122]

Love the content and the humorous edge to the delivery! Thanks.

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you!

[@vharrald]

Nollaig Chridheil to those of the beautiful Highlands of Scotland. And the rest of the world

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas! 🙂

[@vharrald]

@@scotlandunplugged first time I heard, " Nollaig Chridheil", was in the movie " a Merry Scottish Christmas" it's a great movie

[@herstoryswitness]

I didn't know John Knox was buried there. Who wouldn't want to spend eternity in Scotland?

[@morganlafae1882]

Blessings of the season to you and your family!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! And to you! 🙂

[@timothylivingston4135]

I really like your videos. I find them informative and entertaining. Want to visit Scotland one day!

[@kathleenmuller306]

Merry Christmas to you and your family Robert! Enjoy!!!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas 🙂

[@janetmackinnon3411]

"Frowner- in- chief"...Yes , I remember when it was only the Italian-run cafés that sshut in Christmas Day.

[@giannabarrow7764]

Huh…..I’d never have thought so many negatives about Christmas. I prefer life through rose coloured glasses surrounded with twinkling lights. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! I stole that line. 🎄🎅

[@charlesmugleston6144]

HAPPY ZAPPY CHRISTMAS Rabbie and Family - keep on keeping on Unplugging X

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas when it comes, Charles!

[@Emma-Jayne]

Merry Yule Robert to you and your family and a Happy New Year 🥳 🎉too. Enjoy all the celebrations you can 😊

[@smscoal8579]

That was interested. Thanks for sharing it. Merry Christmas from Arizona, USA!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas! 🙂

[@lorettablakeman3335]

I hope you and your family have a joyous,warm and full-bellied holiday season🎄🎁☃✨🎅

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you. Happy Holidays! 🙂

[@camerongibson6342]

A merry Christmas and a happy new year Robbie to you and your family. Nothing surprises me about Scotland in the early years anymore.

[@scotlandunplugged]

Haha. Me neither! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes, Cameron.

[@GoBlueGirl78]

Great video! Love the jumper! LOL

[@cindyrissal3628]

As always, love the lessons. Maybe by the time you get to video #1000, I'll have all these historical figures straight😂 Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to you & your family, too. Love the shirt, btw..😆💕

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🙂

[@katherinemcconnell1531]

….🎄Wishing You And Family A Merry, Merry And A Happy, Happy From Here In Texas, USA🎄….

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours! 🙂

[@suellenspencer-eb2nv]

Very interesting. Well told.❤❤❤ Have a blessed Christmas.

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! You too! 🙂

[@deniseatkins9407]

Happy Christmas Robert and family and merry Hogmanay

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes! 🙂

[@Anne-pk1qj]

Wow, I had no knowledge of that, thank you for the history lesson. Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays! 🎉🎄

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you. Merry Christmas 🙂

[@nataliegraham9552]

All the best to you and your family this holiday season, Robert! 🎄🎅🎁💞 Another fascinating history lesson and I would have never thought that Scotland's generations of leadership was so determined to be utter Scrooges for so very long. Wow!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🙂

[@pjk1714]

Hope you and your family have a special holiday season 🎄 Appreciate you sharing.

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you. Happy holidays!

[@Tamara-db3ep]

Merry Christmas and a Happy Hogmanay you and yours.

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🙂

[@nenaelliott8058]

White! Very informative. I really enjoy the spirit of the holiday season. Most people just seem so much kinder. Merry Christmas to you u and your family. Blessing for a bright and prosperous New Year!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🙂

[@davidcreager1945]

Thanks for the very interesting info on Christmas in Scotland ! Glad you're able to celebrate it now ! Love your sweater by the way ! Hope you and your family have a Very Merry Christmas ! ❄️⛄🎅🦌🌨️✨🥶🧊☃️❤️💚🎁🎄

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes! 🙂

[@junesmith852]

Happy Christmas Mr Parker hope you and your family have a braw wan.. an ah the best fir 2024 🎉🍾🥂🎂🎄

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you. Merry Christmas when it comes 🙂

[@Emma-Jayne]

That flippin King Hakkun! Needs a flick with a tea towel the bugger. Up the Yule and the Yule log 🪵 😊

[@Wotsitorlabart]

The Yule Log is actually late 12th century and from Germany.

[@Emma-Jayne]

@@Wotsitorlabart actually it’s Germanic or Scandinavian and the date of burning the Yule log tradition is lost to us. It is however a pagan tradition and one that I celebrate every year. 😊

[@scotlandunplugged]

😂 Merry Yule and Happy New Year when it comes Emma 🙂

[@Wotsitorlabart]

@@Emma-Jayne It's not pagan in the slightest. The earliest reference to burning a log at Christmas is from Christian Germany in 1184 and subsequent medieval references to it are to be found there. By the 19th century its range had extended outwards and it could be seen to ring Germany - France, Italian Alps, Serbia and most parts of Northern Europe. But of course you can enjoy it as part of your pagan tradition if you so wish.

[@Emma-Jayne]

@@Wotsitorlabart I am aware of what I can enjoy and not. However it is a pagan Scandinavian celebration for winter solstice. Christians may well have highjacked it but everything they highjacked was pagan in origin. The dates are lost to us from its earliest and original point, so cannot be singled to your date I’m afraid. However you enjoy your Christmas as you wish to. 😊

[@jeremy1350]

Happy Christmas Robert and to the whole Parker clan !!! and the MOO COWS too !!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas! 🙂

[@Jyn58]

🎄 Merry Christams Robert and to your family.🎅🎄🎅 I really enjoy your stories of Scotland. Doing my family history, I found 2 of my Great Grandparents came from Scotland 1 from Ireland and 1 from Wales, England. 🎄🎅🎄

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas 🙂

[@patriciamccormack7626Teashee]

Amazing Christmas history Robert 👍♥️ Wishing you and your family Robert a Very Merry Christmas 🎄 and a Happy New Year 🎊 Hae a Gid Yin 🥃🥂❤

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes 🙂🎄

[@shirleylaboy603]

Merry Christmas to you and your Family Robert. 🙂❤️🎄

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas, Shirley 🙂

[@neilfinlay2828]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thanks, Neil. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes!

[@mschoy1597]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS SCOTLAND UNPLUGGED!!!!!!!! 💙💥💫💖💚💓💯💢

[@scotlandunplugged]

Happy holidays! 🙂🎄🎄🎄

[@lizbethholt1154]

Another history lesson... YES!

[@pamelaquirke4059]

Merry Christmas and Happy Hogmanay to you Robert and to your family. I spent 3 Hogmanays in Stonehaven Scotland and have amazing memories of the Fireball Ceremony there and first footing. Scots hospitality is amazing ❤️😄

[@triciagreer9130]

Im sorry i dont comment everytime i watch but i do watch them all. I really enjoy your content I hope you have a wonderful christmas and new year . thank you for the time you take and the work you do

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes! 🙂

[@ersikillian]

Christmas celebrations were banned in New York until 1750. Catholic priests were forbidden to enter New York on pain of death until 1720. As late as 1789 almost no one could be seen in New York putting so much as a Christmas wreath on a door. It was considered a "papist" conspiracy. Such were the attitudes of the era.

[@BadHairdayKimmie]

I'm celebrating everything anyone will let me celebrate. Hanukkah, ok. Christmas, sure. Saint Nicholas Day, cool. Winter Solstice/Yule, I celebrate Summer Solstice so this is a no-brainer, Santa Lucia, I'm not Scandinavian but it sounds like fun. Saturnalia, toga toga toga! Festivus, who doesn't like meatloaf, airing of grievances, and feats of strength? Kwanza, I'd love to learn more and I bet the food is spectacular. Wishing everyone a kind and wonderful holiday season!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Quite right! Merry everything!

[@crystalcollis178]

A Happy Christmas 🎄 and New Year to you and yours!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🙂

[@GingerGrutzius]

Hey, with all that back and forth with and without Christmas. Why not say MERRY CHRISTMAS now that you can? Thank you for the fascinating history lesson. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Blessings to you all in the New Year. GG from Texas.

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes!

[@stephaniehallman9749]

Was in Edinburgh on Hogmanay 2019 - it was amazing!! The torch parade was fantastic and the concert at St. Giles was wonderful. Hoping to get back for another Hogmanay soon. Thanks for another great video. And I totally agree… John Knox was the frowner and chief. 😂😂😂

[@Annie6460]

My goodness never knew that about Christmas and Scotland. Thanks Robert.❤️🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@kathleendolan2062]

Will you do a video about Hogmanay? Please❤

[@scotlandunplugged]

I’ll see what I can do 🙂

[@lillybell6024]

Always love your videos. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas 🙂

[@midgetuley4262]

Happy holidays, and a blessed new year to you and your family ! ❤

[@Cent4man]

May you and your family have a blessed holiday season

[@Vanjonsorz]

Feel better mate and happy Christmas to you an yours 👍

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas when it arrives!

[@robertamity3563]

Merry Christmas 🎄Robert to you and the family say hello to your brother’s ! Why don’t you do a short with each ? With The HGP you could talk about cows and with the artist he could explain his art and what enspires him ? Happy New Years 🎉 ? Scotland unplugged ! 👍😎🇺🇸!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Robert!

[@herstoryswitness]

As always very informative! 1958??????

[@lifeoflucretia]

I almost have no memory of what u say...cuz your accent is so fun & that's all I can hear!😂 Merry Christmas! LUCRETIA

[@scotlandunplugged]

😂 Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@herstoryswitness]

You need to come and be our first footer!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Haha. I'm a walking biohazard just now. Seem to be catching every cold going.

[@herstoryswitness]

@@scotlandunplugged you did sound under the weather and that's tough in the drear winters. It's not any better across the pond just now. Take care and have good holidays!

[@hildabower314]

Hot toddy!!! Poor thing you sound like you are sick. Loved the story!

[@nhmooytis7058]

Someone left Santa haggis instead of cookies so he said no more presents delivered to Scotland. He only relented when they sent him a case of Lagavulin.

[@nhmooytis7058]

My housemate stopped celebrating Christmas when she discovered its pagan origins. Like who doesn’t know that? Now she’s unhappy (and so is her family) because she misses it! You can still do the traditional things with no pretense that it’s connected to Jesus, to enjoy family time. She also says it’s ‘too commercial’- again, you don’t have to make it like that in your own home.

[@mickeyh53]

I found that information extraordinary..wow 1958!!.. you’re definitely not sounding well at all..may need to drown it with a single malt?..Thank you Robert for an exceptional body of work throughout this year..it’s truly been most enjoyable.. Wishing you & the family a Merry Xmas & a Happy Healthy New Year in 2024..all the best from downunder 🇦🇺 Michael

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you, Michael! Merry Christmas to you too when it arrives! 🙂

[@oldschoolman1444]

Happy winter solstice everyone! 😊

[@bronwentillman8385]

I can see it all...Scrooge McDuck banned Christmas, then realized he was wrong in the 1950s and was regretful....😂 Merry Christmas to the entire fam and a safe season!!!

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

[@molecatcher3383]

My Father had to go to work on Christmas Day in the early 1950s.

[@koriw1701]

You're sounding under the weather. Catch yourself a winter cold? You're a bit stuffy. Drink lots of fluids and take vitamin C! Hope your holiday is happy and your New Year is merry!

[@Hailstonepie]

Official naughty stool, cool.

[@AmyJost1976]

Do you have a cold? my hubby and 2 sons have colds, it stinks! if you are under the weather I hope you feel better soon!

[@MorbinNecrim86]

I like the idea of Christmas being banned

[@Hailstonepie]

😊

[@philthycat1408]

John Knox was Santa’s Auntie ? 🧐

[@scotlandunplugged]

Nothing would surprise me 😂

[@philthycat1408]

@@scotlandunplugged merry Xmas when it comes 🎄

[@sarahhunter1114]

Any excuse to celebrate is a good excuse!

[@deedorothypapineau6920]

Have yourself a very Merry Christmas 🌲🌲🌲

[@scotlandunplugged]

Thank you! Merry Christmas to you too 🙂

[@jldisme]

Well, bah humbug.

[@bethotoole6569]

Okay,,, that's one I haven't heard before. But I got some death and, as expected, lots of religion.... I'm happy!! Have a wonderful holiday however you choose to celebrate,, imbibe for me!! The older you get the less imbibing you do😂😂😂

[@scotlandunplugged]

😂 Happy holidays!

[@stufromoz8164]

To save money....????

[@My3jtr]

Oooooooooooooo You are in so much TROUBLE!! You intentionally broke an ornament! 😮 You can't even lie about it. You RECORDED IT, then posted it on the internet. Your wife is going to get you!

[@scotlandunplugged]

😂

[@Thomas-ky3rl]

Glad I don't live in Scotland.

[@thenoobalmighty8790]

Ray Pjörn an scay nuss