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The UK is a colonial fiction #FreePalestine Search #ScottishHistory or #DecoloniseScotland for key ๐งตs
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New on Substack: Scotland: The Empire's Last Colony A more detailed expanded version of the popular X thread. "And in that comment lay the truth of it, the elite that sold Scotland, and then benefitted from blood soaked Imperialism." https://t.co/7bmCoExPMV
There's a lot to unpack in that exchange. The Dalrymples, for example, were the same family responsible for the Glencoe Massacre. Then, as part of the Scottish elite, they helped build the patronage structures that Dundas (the "Great Tyrant") later used to funnel Scots into the
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Let's go futher, and examine line-by-line what the most informed modern historiography is actually saying about the Jacobites, Scotland, and Culloden. This is the final, concluding paragraph, of Murray Pittock's "Culloden" (2016): "The politics of Jacobitism has been strongly
@HS2Angus Yes, I have. Around 12-15% of Cumberland's army were from outside the British Isles, mainly from Hanover. The supposedly Scottish regiments were likely mixed according to Pittock/Duffy, likely far less than 50% Scots. Most of the Argyll militia were placed behind the lines
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Union myth bursted (no3) โโScotland isnโt a colony because Scotโs participated in the empire.โโ Native elites often benefited from ๐ฌ๐ง colonialism by acting as subordinate partners to the British, which allowed them to gain wealth, status, and power within the colonial system.
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Let's go futher, and examine line-by-line what the most informed modern historiography is actually saying about the Jacobites, Scotland, and Culloden. This is the final, concluding paragraph, of Murray Pittock's "Culloden" (2016): "The politics of Jacobitism has been strongly
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Always a good read ๐ keep up the good work
Let's go futher, and examine line-by-line what the most informed modern historiography is actually saying about the Jacobites, Scotland, and Culloden. This is the final, concluding paragraph, of Murray Pittock's "Culloden" (2016): "The politics of Jacobitism has been strongly
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The British imperialists called the Irish dirty, backward and primitive, exactly the same sinister propaganda they used against the Jacobite's: https://t.co/Zl0SGCk84e & the natives of every other country they invaded & colonised.
Let's go futher, and examine line-by-line what the most informed modern historiography is actually saying about the Jacobites, Scotland, and Culloden. This is the final, concluding paragraph, of Murray Pittock's "Culloden" (2016): "The politics of Jacobitism has been strongly
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Well worth a read and a Substack follow ๐
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So Pittock is saying, in polite scholarly English, that: Scotland was annexed, not united; the Jacobites were the last national army resisting that annexation; and the "primitive Highland" myth is the colonial cover story that made the UK's birth look like destiny instead of
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So Pittock is in fact pointing out the fact the Jacobites were anti-colonial, sovereigntist, Scottish resistance, albeit in the coded, careful language of a senior academic operating inside a British university system that still instinctively punishes anyone who uses the word
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4. "Arguably no battle out of living memory is remembered so powerfully and so falsely." That is an extraordinary statement for a senior academic. He is saying flatly: Culloden is the most falsified battle in modern European historiography. 5. "What was in some ways the last
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Let's go futher, and examine line-by-line what the most informed modern historiography is actually saying about the Jacobites, Scotland, and Culloden. This is the final, concluding paragraph, of Murray Pittock's "Culloden" (2016): "The politics of Jacobitism has been strongly
@HS2Angus Yes, I have. Around 12-15% of Cumberland's army were from outside the British Isles, mainly from Hanover. The supposedly Scottish regiments were likely mixed according to Pittock/Duffy, likely far less than 50% Scots. Most of the Argyll militia were placed behind the lines
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Worth a read if you can handle some harsh truths on Scotland's status as the British (English) Empires last colony.
New on Substack: Scotland: The Empire's Last Colony A more detailed expanded version of the popular X thread. "And in that comment lay the truth of it, the elite that sold Scotland, and then benefitted from blood soaked Imperialism." https://t.co/7bmCoExPMV
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Union myths busted. The myth that Scotland isnโt a colony because it has a level of self governance. All colonies had some level of devolved or self-governance in domestic matters, though the degree varied significantly depending on the imperial power, the type of colony.
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Scotland is shackled to colonialism.
For 300 years we were told the Jacobites were feudal reactionaries. The evidence suggests the opposite (see Murray Pittock, Culloden, and Christopher Duffy). This is the one that will really blow a few minds ๐คฏ An anti-colonial resistance movement that, far from being
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Why the 2014 referendum has "settled" nothing and never could have: "Scotland never lawfully entered the incorporating Union of 1707; the Kingdom of Scotland was never dissolved and its sovereignty remains in abeyance. The 2014 referendum therefore asked the wrong constitutional
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๐๐๐จ๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐โ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ: ๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ-๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ In recent weeks and months, AI systemsโwhen pressed into strict legal reasoningโhave been producing remarkable assessments of
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This is brilliantly written and informative. It debunks the myth (and it has been many times) that Scotland receives subsidies from the uk government, which has never been the case
Taylor is using a classic propaganda trick. The Barnett formula doesn't "give Scotland back all its tax plus ยฃ2,600 more." It isn't based on tax at all โ it only adjusts Scotland's block grant when England's departmental spending changes. Scotland raises around ยฃ88.5 billion
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For 300 years we were told the Jacobites were feudal reactionaries. The evidence suggests the opposite (see Murray Pittock, Culloden, and Christopher Duffy). This is the one that will really blow a few minds ๐คฏ An anti-colonial resistance movement that, far from being
And here we have our "Anti-Colonial colonial resistance". "The "victors' history" conveniently stripped the Jacobite cause of this profound anti-Union constitutional identity, reframing it as a simple act of Catholic rebellion and treason. However, your coherent model correctly
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