At High School in History I learned about the following:
Gavril(o) Princip of the Black Hand Gang shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand (and his wife). An incident that started World War 1.
Tsar Nicholas had a son who was a haemophiliac and his wife might have had an affair with Ra-Ra-Rasputin. A man with mystic powers who proved very difficult to kill.
A lot of Irish people moved to America around the 17th or 18th century.
I did not learn anything about Mary Queen of Scots, William Wallace, Rob Roy, 1707, Robert the Bruce, Macbeth or James I.
Infact, Mel Gibson is responsible for the vast majority of my knowledge of Scottish History and that, I've been told, is a decidedly shaky foundation to build from.
I know I'm a big boy now and could get a book out the library and find out for myself who our famous ancestors were, but let's give a proper history education to Scots when their young and have the capactiy to learn the Scottish equivalent of whether Mr Princip had an O in his name and what gang he was a member of.
For one thing, it would stop most of us giving a rather shameful "Uuh, I don't know" when tourists ask us about our past.
Crisis? What crisis?
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Did you not learn that Trotsky was 'hacked to death with an ice pick' that WW1 was all about a ship building competition between Germany and Britain, that Julius Ceasar invaded in 55 BC and that King Charles II gave the guy that invented ice cream, a pension for life? So he wouldn't have any problems with the collapse of the sub prime market..
Hmm, this is something that I have been thinking more about in recent times (since a move South).
I am slowly developing a self-growing conspiracy theory which describes how our Southern brothers have depicted the Scots as barbaric thugs with little intelligence or use other than being hard as nails. I sense that the ‘truth’ of the matter is that our culture has been watered down over the years to suppress the nationalistic pride that would result.
The worst and most embarrassing aspect of it all is the fact that the sandstone sculpture at the Wallace Monument is a depiction of Mel Gibson.
That is outrageous.
Ah yeah, I did do the Arms Race, well reminded Julie. The Dreadnought introduced in 1913 I believe. Ah, the good old days, when the biggest decision was whether to spend your £1.20 lunch money on chips or a sausage roll. (When I was a kid, no 1913. With £1.20 you could probably buy a car back then)
And Fred, I was honestly going to touch on all of those points but for some reason my passion had been diluted, my wings had been clipped and there just wasn't enough in the tank...
They've got to me already! The watered down culture has stripped me of my Scottish zeal but we must still fight.
After all, they may take our lives, but they'll... ucht, you know the rest.
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