The Scots and the Highlands in the 18th century

Abstract

Do you discern a major change in the attitudes of eighteenth-century Scots towards Highland culture and society ? Bagpipes, tartan, kilts : How did Scotland as a nation come to adopt these symbolic elements of its cultural identity in the first half of the XIXth century ? Before trying to answer such a tricky question one needs to examine and analyse the tremendous changes that Scotland experienced within its own people from the end of the seventeenth century onwards