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Just got off the phone with parents who are apoplectic about the lack of Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Edinburgh (and Glasgow per relatives) - with no mass events taking place. Is this anti-Union politics from the govt? Or are Scots themselves not huge royalists? ๐ค
Meanwhile, in London: 
Even crisps are getting involved #plattyjoobs
How long has Scotland been British?
A look across over 2,000 years of history referencing archaeology, etymology, place names and historical records to address this question...
A look across over 2,000 years of history referencing archaeology, etymology, place names and historical records to address this question...
National identities are, by their nature, often politicised but in an era where some claim they are #ScottishNotBritish there is a case for a historical examination...
The very word 'British' comes from the Brythonic term 'Pritani' or painted / tattooed people, and was described the tribes in Scotland who had been here from around 800BC
A few years ago All Saints Church in Hereford got funding for the erection of a cafe on a new mezzanine level. A new seating gallery had excellent lighting, all the better to illuminate detail of the magnificent intricate carvings cloaked in shadow since the 14th century! โฆAh.
The man in the carving has appropriately been nicknamed Seamus OโToole, and it is thought that his spirited salutation was created by a disgruntled medieval artisan.
Stone gargoyles and decorative misericords have all sorts of symbolic meanings but there is some anecdotal evidence that the more ribald version was a final flourish of carpenters and masons scammed of their pay.
