Scottish Clans
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It is believed clans started to emerge in Scotland around 1100AD and were originally the descendants of kings – if not of demigods from Irish mythology. As well as kinship and a sense of identity and belonging, being part of a clan was an important part of survival throughout the centuries that would follow.
Scotland’s leading cultural historian, Professor Murray Pittock, joins Dan on the podcast to share the history of the clans from their Celtic origins through to the Clearances and the present day. They discuss the structure of clans, how the system collapsed and the paradox of how global clanship has become today.
This episode was produced by Hannah Ward, the audio editor was Dougal Patmore.
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| 0:24.5 | Today we're talking about the clan system, |
| 0:27.4 | the world famous semi-tribal groupings |
| 0:31.8 | that we associate with the Highlands of Scotland. |
| 0:33.4 | The problem is, does the clan system really exist? |
| 0:36.3 | Did it ever exist? |
| 0:37.4 | And this is where historians come and inverse |
| 0:39.0 | the old bubbles, folks. |
| 0:40.3 | It is an absolutely fascinating topic. |
| 0:43.0 | Many people know about the clasps, |
| 0:44.3 | particularly around the 45, the Jacobite uprising |
| 0:48.4 | that saw Charles Edward Stuart Bonnie Prince Charlie land |
| 0:52.0 | on the West Coast Scotland, raise an armed force |
| 0:54.5 | largely from the clasps of the Highlands |
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