On 16 Jul 2009, at 6:00 pm, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com
wrote:
But whatever you do, don't think you are visiting all Scotland when
you go
to Edinburgh, and if you go north to the Highlands, well, take
history with
you.
I love Edinburgh (despite my surname), but next week I
I don't really know about 'Highlanders" and 'Lowlanders" beyond their
being rather artificial
"them and us" categories dreamt up by purveyors of Shortbread in tins
with a portrait of a
highly pansified King Charles III when he was Prince Regent; following
on from Victoria's
Uncle ("William IV')
On 16 Jul 2009, at 09:51, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Historically Scotland has been two cultures, the culture
of the lowland cities, Then you have
the highland culture,
Oh dear me, Peter. If there were only these two cultures, a bunch of
skirt-wearing highland lassies and football-play
While we are waiting for Beta...
When you go to Edinburgh, you're visiting Scotland, but you are visiting
Lowland Scotland. Historically Scotland has been two cultures, the culture
of the lowland cities, commercial, financial, manufacturing and oriented to
England. This was the Whiggish part
