See John Knox, The Man Who Changed Scotland here kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGq1lq2qZdBoaqc
@gustavmeyrink_2.03 жыл бұрын
2:22 Voltaire was a good friend of Frederick II 'the Great' King of Prussia. He lived in his Potsdam palace Sanssouci for many years having his own specially designed room. Voltaire declared Frederick to be a 'philosopher king'. Fredrick himself was untypically fairly ambivalent towards religion and at one time declared that he welcomes everybody into Prussia as long as they contribute positively to society "...if they are Jewish we will build them synagogues and if they are Muslim we will build mosques". PS: These days I live where Scottish engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch are buried: Birmingham which is clearly the best town or city in England.
@gustavmeyrink_2.03 жыл бұрын
PPS: What do you think of the crest of Clan Borthwick? Genuine question and I can't think of anybody more appropriate to ask.
@GenealogistBuchanan3 жыл бұрын
Some years ago I read the book "How the Scots Invented the Modern World". I started off as a skeptic, but in the end I had to admit that universal basic education and the Scottish Enlightenment have changed the world.
@terrencemunro3 жыл бұрын
The book “How the Scots invented the modern world” changed my outlook on Scottish history. Loved the video 🏴👍🏴
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Terrence. An enlightening book about the enlightenemnet indeed
@terrencemunro3 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Keep informing, good sir. You have a talent for narration.
@joefreeman37723 жыл бұрын
Wow, I've gained a new found respect for Scotland
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
I'm delighted
@gm0hzi2 жыл бұрын
my great grandfather had a coffee shop on the royal mile he used to work at the old Balmoral hotel (not the one thats there now ) in Princess street
@TheFarout693 жыл бұрын
My ancestor and namesake James Boswell is in this story. I got some pride about that. He was a great writer. And a man with vision. Tour To The Hebrides is a good one. Published in 1936 when it was found ..hidden away. He tours with Dr. Johnston the subject of a more famous biography also written by James as well.
@alastairchestnutt6416 Жыл бұрын
Great talk.Thanks.
@paulclarke47763 жыл бұрын
Amazing stories.. 👍👌 For a small country on this tiny island we have had a MASSIVE impact on the world..!! Great stories and information! Can't wait to binge watch 'hunners' more!! 😉👍👌
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
That's the spirit Paul
@Valhalla88888 Жыл бұрын
England is only about 15% larger i believe u night be talking about the population of England 55m Vs Scotland at 5.4m yes big impact ❤
@Valhalla8888810 ай бұрын
It's not a small country it's close to having the same land mass as England yes it only has a 5.4m population the same as Norway England has 55m population 😂
@geowidman3 жыл бұрын
Marvelous! I walked those same streets not long ago and never absorbed how vitally important those streets and places were to the modern world's society. Thank you.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Welcome
@peterstoddard62252 жыл бұрын
Outstanding work. How John Knox did what he did in one lifetime is beyond remarkable. Thank you Bruce!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@amyferebee2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating 🎶😎🎶
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@howler64902 жыл бұрын
I've got a book about the enlightenment...strangely enough by an american...so it was incredible to see for my first time, the actual rooms where conversations that made the modern world, took place. Awesome Bruce...well done indeed.
@JohnConner83 жыл бұрын
Bruce is the best!!!
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
😊😎😎
@vickibamman83333 жыл бұрын
It's such a pleasure to see how you enjoy talking about your subject!
@coniwatson95123 жыл бұрын
Your insight is so appreciated. Helps to understand the history on a personal level.
@abbu.robinson3 жыл бұрын
Long time viewer first time commenter. Your videos are great Thanks Bruce
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@area609joe73 жыл бұрын
Amazing video would be an understatement,
@ChristophersMum3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bruce...I had never heard of ''the Coffee House'' before...enlightenment has come to me also.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@ChristophersMum3 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours 🎇😁🎇
@bettyrobb82192 жыл бұрын
What a great narrator !! Great accent! 👍🏻🏴🇨🇦
@fabiennedeuxant42733 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your videos. I learn so much on a country I love Sorry for my english I am from Belgium
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time Fabienne
@alsturrock89402 жыл бұрын
Great video Bruce! My workshop made the new doors for the former coffeehouse. That big heavy door you opened from the close. Very cool. I supplied the doors but had no idea about the discovery on site! Thanks
@davidmckay7373 жыл бұрын
Another quality video, very underrated channel
@thomasmoore59492 жыл бұрын
Another brilliant insight into our history! Thank you!
@colinp22383 жыл бұрын
To anyone watching this and thinking of visiting Scotland, contact Bruce and hire him for an interesting, amusing and a great time. Earlier this year Bruce took me around Robert Burns Museum, and despite the weather, it was an amazing time. I was born in England from a family from Inverness, I describe myself as a Sassenach from a long line of Teuchters, but Bruce really made a gracious host, warm and welcoming and he is really like you see him here, if you meet him you feel that you already know him. Go on dip your bread in and enjoy yourselves, you know it makes sense.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
😘
@maureennewman9053 жыл бұрын
Ah ! My home town ,love when I return home , love the people , love the humour
@Dishfire1016 ай бұрын
England had 2 universities and Scotland had 4 universities an educated class and most of these Scots worked in the British Empire and the East India Company 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@BoadiceanRevenge10 ай бұрын
In 1970, I was aged 12, and travelled overnight on a coach from Essex in England with my dear mum to Ayshire to visit my father's mother who lived on the top floor of a tenanment building in Kilbirnie (Whitevale Terrace). There was a bed in the wall. Some of the bedding was real silk and there were big cupboards under the beds. And of course there were lots of stairs! I can't remember whether the toilet, which was shared by other tenants, was still at the end of the communal landing, or if a bathroom had been installed by this time. But I do remember seeing a large porcelain po in my Gran's flat! Two of the reasons why I remember this visit are the horrendous screech of brakes from the Glasgow buses, and the fact that no sooner had we got to my Gran's, she asked when we were going back! My poor mother! She was so tired bless her! The memories, eh!😊🙋🏴🇮🇪🙏
@handsomepiper57613 жыл бұрын
Superb as always 🏴👍
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thanks again!
@shauncooper97563 жыл бұрын
Brilliant videos I would love to hear about The black Douglas.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Got to get round to it
@Bikedaftdave3 жыл бұрын
Very informative Bruce, thank you🏴
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@jacquelinebain573 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bruce. Really enjoyed this. I can see a themed restaurant or cafe with actors in the background enacting important discussions from the Enlightenment and possibly modern ones too. Can we go to see it?
@rajanagalaut26473 жыл бұрын
Coffee shop but please no actors & theatrics let the discussions & creativity flow.. Don't forget JR Rowling wrote Harry Potter in an Edinburgh tea shop
@johnmcgarvey47583 жыл бұрын
Now that was one helluva good story!👍
@julianshepherd20383 жыл бұрын
About time BBC Scotland have you a call. I hear Mr Oliver has gone to pastures blue
@christophersherman11983 жыл бұрын
This Gentleman is a Natural. Very knowledgeable. A National Treasure.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
😂
@JohnConner83 жыл бұрын
Love to hear of the "close" stories of Edinburgh. When in town a couple years ago, some were quite mysterious.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Did this no suit ye? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnibpoSJiK16Y9k
@ruthmclennan19143 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thanks for this Bruce.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thank YOU
@stevenmclaren27303 жыл бұрын
Mt home city. And a wonderful teller of stories.
@OkieJammer27363 жыл бұрын
Wowwww. What a history. Thank you.
@davidmacgregor51933 жыл бұрын
Aye Bruce, there was also the Dumfriesshire blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan who invented the pedal driven bicycle in 1839. Macmillan's bicycle had a wooden frame and steel rimmed wooden wheels like those on waggons and coaches of the time. Macmillan is one of Scotland's unsung heroes as most people have never heard of him.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
One of a long list
@junestewart50983 жыл бұрын
Fascinating as always, what a fabulous place for a antiquarian book and coffee shop 😊
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
There's a suggestion
@angelamarieanntrejo53803 жыл бұрын
another amazing video thank you for sharing
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for keeping watching
@69adeen3 жыл бұрын
aye Bruce great video, again. My da is nae doing great but your videos are getting him through the days. we both love them . take care mate
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Ah wow, it really makes me feel good that I could help even a little
@sherrieschoening65812 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Thank you!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome Sherrie
@ppavery3 жыл бұрын
Another interesting informative and entertaining video thank you.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Peter
@dynamitecity96673 жыл бұрын
😂😂 yeah that pish smell coming up those stairs from Waverley hit you like a ton of bricks. Always walked up that way going to work at gigs on cowgate. Great music venues like: Sneaky Pete’s, Bannermans, the Mash House, and my favourite: The Caves(stunning venue)
@StarfishTaxisStAndrews2 ай бұрын
Thank you
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
You're welcome
@TheAmerican19633 жыл бұрын
Great video as usual !!!!! Thank you !!!!
@zaynevanday1423 жыл бұрын
I hope they restore it as a coffee house and meeting place to honour its history ! let the next generation do the same
@zaynevanday1423 жыл бұрын
@Info - The Lost Close soul cries for joy ! what was once lost has now been found and restored to former glories !
@zaynevanday1423 жыл бұрын
@Info - The Lost Close The Scottish Declaration of Independence? lol
@zaynevanday1423 жыл бұрын
@Info - The Lost Close har har har (Laughs in Scottish)
@caseyhanna86453 жыл бұрын
Great content as usual my friend👍Would like to have your take on the Scots Irish. Thank you for your time💓🇫🇮💪🇺🇸🙏
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Hey Casey. I tend to look for specific stories rather than broad groups. I' sure there are loads of stories though. If I can find good stories and relate it back to a home audience as well then I'll definitely cover
@-jechanovia-4083 жыл бұрын
I received that book for Christmas and have just finally had the chance to pick it up!
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
A good read indeed
@stevenmackintosh81603 жыл бұрын
Wonderfull!
@josephriddle95523 жыл бұрын
I watch your channel I'm glad to see some one telling the history. I've been doing research of my family lots of the history is gone maybe you have some information I don't know
@blairglynn53163 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video just to think the world changed 10 mins up the road from me!!
@christophersherman11983 жыл бұрын
💪🏻👍🏻
@chuckmarks85563 жыл бұрын
Great video and a great book! Always appreciate your work Bruce! Tapadh leibh!
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
'S e do bhaetha
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
'S e do bhaetha
@elizabethghent1943 жыл бұрын
Love all your videos, this one is super interesting. I read that book quite a while ago. I am working through your topics and I have still got many more to watch. Thank you and I appreciate all you are doing. I think a wee cup of coffee is coming your way. !
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Good lass Elizabeth
@elizabethghent1943 жыл бұрын
Coffee is on its way. A’ the best.
@SuperMYSHKIN3 жыл бұрын
American?
@elizabethghent1943 жыл бұрын
Referring to me? I am Scots.
@Sasmafras3 жыл бұрын
My parents went to a trivial pursuit party, they won. People were surprised that my dad was so educated for a weilder.
@douglasherron75343 жыл бұрын
We used to be an educated people... Now our children are just indoctrinated!
@Th3_Gael3 жыл бұрын
@@douglasherron7534 it's a crime
@jamieduncombe97293 жыл бұрын
Never underestimate the working class of Scotland 👍🏴
@kevingalloway93383 жыл бұрын
Great video
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Kevin
@joseraulcapablanca85643 жыл бұрын
A fascinating video. I just became aquainted with your stuff. I like it. I find it fascinating that just as many of these enlightenment figure fought agaianst as for the jacobites. also that the fine way educated folks in Edinburgh speak is because folks use to take the pish out of Hume in london because they did not understand his accent, hanec for many years fine speaking baecame a priorit in Edinburgh schools.
@lloydgush3 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@DuncanMcAdam Жыл бұрын
Medical science, antibiotics and infection, operations and first caesarean birth in Glasgow Royal infirmary.
@vincetytler61753 жыл бұрын
New subscriber here, really enjoying your content
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Yay! Thanks Vince
@cent1783 жыл бұрын
Reading this now and been enjoying linking the info from two sources 🤣
@joanhuffman2166 Жыл бұрын
Found it. Yes, I've read "How the Scots Invented the Modern World". A good explanation of the Scottish Enlightenment, but not clear enough on how it began, how it the change was made.
@clairebeebum3 жыл бұрын
Really interesting thank you!
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@sam.dubya4203 жыл бұрын
Spot on description of the Mile during the festival. As a local, I always avoid it en route tae work 😂😂
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
I can imagine
@DCMamvcivmEvony2 жыл бұрын
I'm English by accident of birth, although tracing my roots I find that my maternal grandfathers line Graham could be traced back to Scotland (still need to continue following this line) and my paternal grandfathers line Casey's traced back to Ireland. Lots of difficulty tracing this line as it's turns out my grandfather was adopted into the Casey family and was originally Garford I have not been able to find any records of adoption etc yet which makes tracing my Irish lineage very difficult. My maternal grandmothers line I have been able to trace back to Yorkshire specifically tiplady hall where it seems one of my ancestors may have been a gardener that then fell in love with and married a daughter of the house (probably pregnant) who was then disowned for marrying below her station. I say all of this to establish that I hold Scotland and Ireland as much a part of me as I do England the county of my birth. I love Scotland and our shared history the good bits and the bad, and would be sad to see her break away but would support it vehemently. I believe everybody should have self determination. I just hope of the Scots do decide to go for independence they do so with the spirit of Adam Smith and the enlightenment and not with the spirit of the economically illiterate and authoritarian SNP they currently have in power. I would like to see a free Scotland make a massive success of being free, the snp certainly appear to be a barrier to that from where I'm sat.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 жыл бұрын
Let's see what the future holds
@Parker_Douglas Жыл бұрын
Scottish & free as a bird & happy to remain in 🇬🇧
@zhubajie69403 жыл бұрын
Personally Joseph Black is my hero. Hard to have an I-phone without electricity and hard to generate electricity without the science of thermodynamics and chemistry even if its not fossil fueled.
@robertknox23923 жыл бұрын
I've just watched the video on the proscription of clan MacGregor at the hands of the Cambells and Calhoun. Can you talk about the Clan MacFarlane, also proscribed, with lands in north Loch Lomond?
@cambelleniouskorsakoff3 жыл бұрын
Got a new follower sir!
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Yay
@Prel83 жыл бұрын
Hi Bruce I really enjoy your videos and went so far as to buy one of your hoodies from tee spring. I love the message on the front, but I'm somewhat confused by the message on the back, "Tioraidh an Drasda". Is it supposed to be laundry instructions?
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣Thanks for buying a hoodie Tiorraidh an drasda
@sapien823 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love these videos Bruce , 's math sin!, SO coffee is the reason we got the enlightenment done then hahahaha BUZZIN
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
😄
@ChristophersMum3 жыл бұрын
Definitely ''smashing''...😉
@imawaffle1482 жыл бұрын
7:12 Adam Ferguson was so important he got mentioned twice lmao
@philippa50043 жыл бұрын
Ace to know 👍
@kurtbogle29733 жыл бұрын
So, do you have any information on the Bogle Tobacco trade in Glasgow?
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
No, but that sounds interesting
@jimross76483 жыл бұрын
I was aware of the taverns, reading rooms, tea rooms and houses but not coffee houses. Maybe I just didn't pay attention, because because I don't care for coffee and almost never consume it. It's not that I thought people didn't consume coffee, I just thought it was like you can get tea or a fruit smoothie in a modern coffee shop, you could get coffee in a tea shop or reading room. Establishments that were specifically called coffee houses, I didn't think existed till much later. Learnin stuff.
@johanyousef19513 жыл бұрын
Woah you were in Edinburgh?? Damn did I choose the wrong day to hit the beach
@RoderickGMacLeod3 жыл бұрын
Fleshmarket Close? More Rebus references! I love this KZbin Channel.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
I love Rebus, but it's just the close that best illustrates the point
@RoderickGMacLeod3 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours probably why Mr. Rankin chose it.
@duneideannaer59903 жыл бұрын
Suggestion= dressing rooms for the fringe street performers, then just meet n greet for the new enlightenment for the remaining 11 months 😁 anyways I love my city I’m so proud to be an Edinburger! Even if Knox didn’t approve of my likes……..
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
That's a great idea!
@benturnbull40093 жыл бұрын
How about the border reivers or covenanters. All good reading and listening
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
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@barbaralavoie10453 жыл бұрын
Sometimes, I watch you twice🤣👍
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. I'll be honest sometimes it takes me more than one take to do it😂
@alastairwright29293 жыл бұрын
Thank you, could you tell a story of William Smellie, (born 1740, Edinburgh, Scotland Encyclopaedia Britannica fame and publication of Philosophy of Natural History. Has been described as a “precursor of Darwin”
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
...and publisher of Burns
@alastairwright29293 жыл бұрын
Shrewd Willie Smellie to Crochallan came; The old cock'd hat, the grey surtout the same;
@josephcianflone99013 жыл бұрын
It also lead to William Burke and William Hare.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
😂😂 IMMIGRANTS !
@Boksburg19823 жыл бұрын
If only I had been taught Scottish History the way that you explain it. I was basically taught that to get on and improve my life I had no option bu to leave Scotland. As it turned out that advice was good. Pretty sad really.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
I stayed and I think I got on fine😊
@bettyrobb82192 жыл бұрын
Hope you are ‘ Happy ‘where you are! 👍🏻🏴🇨🇦
@elizabethghent1943 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know why I cannot share these videos to Facebook. I have many friends who would enjoy them .
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
You should be able to.
@elizabethghent1943 жыл бұрын
Scotland History Tours I used to do it all the time, now when I. Click ‘share’ I get several options but not Facebook.
@elizabethghent1943 жыл бұрын
@Scotland History Tours I Found out I have to use a different browser.
@gustavmeyrink_2.03 жыл бұрын
Bruce if you have a moment you might want to look at the Midlands Enlightenment at the centre of which were the Lunaticks (Lunar Society of Birmingham). There is some overlap with the Scottish one in the form of James Watt and James Keir but besides Charles grandad Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, abolitionist Josiah Wedgewood et al there was also an international contingent from France, Switzerland, Germany and in the form Benjamin Franklin the USA and at least two women: Susannah Wright and Anna Seward. PS:If it wouldn't be for Birmingham I'd live in Scotland or back in Germany. Birmingham is extremely welcoming! According to Professor of Local History Carl Chinn to be a bona fide Brummie you don't have to born here, you just need to live here on your own free will.
@ianb90283 жыл бұрын
A suggestion if you haven’t covered him already is James Clerk Maxwell.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
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@ianb90283 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours thanks much appreciated really enjoying you channel from Aust.
@ianb90283 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours thanks again that was excellent.
@akiram66093 жыл бұрын
It was James Clerk Maxwell whose work suggested that light was an electromagnetic wave and this discovery would serve as the basis for Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.
@jamesoneill50703 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I was on my own at a quiz and the question was "Whose portraits did Albert Einstein have in his study?". I had no idea but immediately came up with Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell and after a little thought Michael Faraday. I mention this because Maxwell is the greates Scotsman that ever lived. The modern world we live in was kick started by him. I watched a program on T V and the science presenter was next to Maxwell's statue and nobody had heard of Maxwell and had no clue who he was. I'm a Sassenach and I was fuming. Have you done a series on Rob Roy, another of Scotland's folk heroes?
@velondabe68683 жыл бұрын
John Knox, started the Presbytearian denomination, correct?
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGq1lq2qZdBoaqc
@belesariius3 жыл бұрын
And at the other end of that square is where John knox and about 30,000 other people are buried ;) creepy square that lol
@gordonwilson16313 жыл бұрын
Eh, how about a new John’s Coffee House? To help spark the badly needed Enlightenment 2. The World is waiting. Mine’s a mocha with a slice of good old fashioned Scottish socialism.
@craigmiller18703 жыл бұрын
Do you think they shipped hashish from the middle east as well as coffee?
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Sorry man... what was the question again?
@craigmiller18703 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours In Paris there was a social club named the Hashish Eaters Club with many famous intellectuals of it’s day as members. I was curious if Edinburgh had any familiarity with the drug during this time. If coffee, a new imported drug from the East could act as a catalyst for original and creative thought, then maybe hashish or cannabis also could have contributed?
@leojordan51193 жыл бұрын
I beg ye to keep making these
@SuperMYSHKIN3 жыл бұрын
Please stop.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 Now that actually did make me laugh out loud
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry Leo. In spite of the bloke downstairs I will
@odetbeauvoisin3 жыл бұрын
Wow, again 😁
@dasewen3 жыл бұрын
Love that book, written by an American with a German name.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Aye, but his great great grandpappy was Jock Tamson
@stevepeebles613 жыл бұрын
Well I've been in Mary Kings Close, but I never knew about this, just across the street. You forgot to spit, on the Heart of Lothian mate. Cheers Steve aka Benjamin Button 😉
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
I didnae pass that. It's further up the street to the west of St Giles
🤣🤣🤣No, I have no history qualifications whatsoever. I used to teach maths ad physics though
@jameslugton22093 жыл бұрын
I've just found your channel mate and can't praise it highly enough. I'm watching your clip about The Enlightenment. I've read before about the quote from Voltaire........ "The great French philosopher and historian Voltaire (1694-1778) said ‘We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation’. At this time European thinkers challenged old ideas about almost every aspect of life. They argued that the way forward was to use “reason” when seeking answers to questions. People should not just accept what they were told, they should question ideas. It was the beginning of the modern world as we know it." ewh.org.uk/learning/classroom-resources/old-edinburgh/city-of-genius-the-scottish-enlightenment/ What do you think of the new 'hate crime' laws which allow the polis to arrest or caution you for things said or uttered in your own home? Personally I see Scotland heading towards a tartan hued East German Stasi like state. I'm interested in what your view is on this? I personally believe freedom of speech and thought are hard won human rights.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes laws are well intended , but poorly worded
@par5763 жыл бұрын
I thought the enlightenment started in Ecclefechan!
@gardener30303 жыл бұрын
What about a coffee shop?
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
Genius! I think that would actually work
@donaldpaterson58273 жыл бұрын
If you want the best for Scotland and are a Unionist you could start a Unionist Club or Society promoting the transparency of political parties financies.
@ScotlandHistoryTours3 жыл бұрын
You could start any group you want I reckon. I's happily support your transparency group, but I don't think transparency of political parties finances is a Unionist issue. Few parties are without sin there
@richardparsons70122 жыл бұрын
In any other video, I would have expected the trademark 'boo' on the reveal of the Adam Smith statue. What a dreadful legacy has been wrought by The Wealth of Nations.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 жыл бұрын
Oppenheimer didn't drop the nuclear bomb
@richardparsons70122 жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I'm not so sure that Oppenheimer and the bomb are analogous to promoting a harmful ideology? It would seem to me that ideology directs the application of science. There are piles of well written ideas that have been discarded as bad or harmful!
@georgestewart13253 жыл бұрын
Even today you can still get a whiff of pish! 😂 So true 😂