HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vestiarium Scoticum, Highland Clearances, Kilt
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Independent and sovereign state, last year referendum on separating. 1707: political union with england: house of stuart, james i (1603-25, charles i (1625-49, charles ii (1649-85, james ii (1685-89) 1700"s movement to restore stuart kings to thrones of england, scotland and. Idea popular in scottish highlands: uprisings 1715 & 1745 that amounted to civil war in scotland. Highland clearances: highlands subjected to widespread social and agricultural reforms, traditional clan system largely dismantled, people fled to north america, mass migrations, scottish lowlands, north american colonies. Criss-cross patterns on cloth: people reinvented themselves as sobieski stuarts: vestiarium scoticum (1842, put out several different patterns of tartan (patterns), sold commercially, not invented by scottish. Scottish enlightenment: mid 18c most advanced country in europe, 75% literacy, philosophers: francis hutcheson (utilitarianism), david hume (empiricism, adam smith: first great work of modern economics, significant advances in medicine, law, physics, chemistry, agronomy and geology.
