Thanks Neil. There are so many now that appreciate you standing up for democracy, freedom and our future. You are one of the best orators that I listen to. I admire your bravery for sticking your head above the parapet, giving all of us who can see what's going on hope for the future. You have kept me sane in a totally insane world and I salute you and thankyou from the depths of my soul. Sending much love to you and your family. xx .
Well put - standing up for British culture, and revisiting, reminding and reviewing British history in order that we can face the challenges facing Britain's present and future issues; is what I learn by watching Neil's podcasts.
Not exactly….Many want nefarious things like child porn and other perverted life styles and what in is the way of fully “enjoying” nasty stuff like that is The Law, not fear.
@@psalm1197 That isn't at all what I meant and I think you have missed the spirirt of the intention behind what I was saying and perverted it. well done 🙄
I'm afraid I've become hopelessly addicted to these wonderful podcasts. They give me such insight into human nature and how important our link is to the past in understanding how much our own present is also the future for newer generations.
Excellent podcast! As an American, the bulk of my bloodline hearkens back to the British Isles, including Scotland, and I love to read about, and hear the history! It is always sad and thought provoking to walk across battlefields, and other areas where our ancestors have walked, lived, and died.
Neil you are never ever talking to empty space. You are a beacon of reason, rationale and downright interest in this increasingly crazy world! Thank you 🌟🙏🥰
Thank you Neil. I had to go away half way through this to have a cup of tea and a good cry. I'm Aussie of convict ancestry and Scottish/Ulster descent and I have a son of more recent Scottish descent. My grandmother taught me Highland Dancing. Her grandfather left Scotland after the Crimean War and went to Nova Scotia and then on to Australia. I sometimes wonder if there is a continuum, in our DNA, of the experiences of our ancestors. Is this what makes us cry when we go to places to which we have never been or when we hear traditional music which is not familiar to us (except in the stirring of the soul), or the silent knowledge (which we call instinct), or the Deja Vu feeling when we meet a stranger or smell something which takes out of the present moment or feel the wind blow across us or the silence of a mist?
Neil your work through the years speaks for itself! Now you continue to draw like mined souls together to fight for freedom from Nobles, Elites, special interest groups from taking over the right of free thought! Hope you feel the love of those following you! Keep up the good fight!
At school I found history so dry and distant. 55 years on I find that same history utterly intriguing thanks to Neil’s ability to carry you through time so you can almost sense it in the present. Thanks Neil for opening my eyes to this boundless wonder.
The halcyon days of my 20's, waking and having a doobie on a Sunday morning watching Time Team. Love you Neil! Things more serious in my 40s with kids and all the sh!t going on. You are a beacon of hope.
Hello from Canada! I thank you so much for all the time and amazing information and commentary; you have been a rock of sanity to me over these past 2ish years. Deeply appreciate it.
I remember two men in a trench it is great to see you have not lost the passion for history. The trouble is people have not learned the lessons of the past. Freedom for all not just the rich and powerful.
Thanks Neil; now I understand better. I grew up in Derby, and have taken a special interest in Derby Museum and Art Gallery in recent years, as well as the Silk Mill museum. Outside the latter, now renamed, much to my disdain, the 'museum of making' is a statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and in the former is a dimly lit room that sets out to recreate the room in Derby in which BPC and his friends discussed what to do next, complete with sound effects. Having said that, I fear it may have been destroyed in the recent woke purge of museums, along with the displays of geological ages behind glass that fascinated me as a child. Someone put a lot of work into those, complete with plants and animals, but last time I visited they had gone, replaced with a 'world exhibition' of random objects without explanation or meaning. The Museum of Making had also been purged. This is only a few steps from the final home of Erasmus Darwin, and for fifteen years I have been urging the museum to feature the story of the 'Lunar Society' men: Erasmus Darwin (famed for his poems which influenced all the Romantic poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, etc, as well as for his description of Natural Selection, long before his grandson Charles expanded on the idea); James Watt, of steam engine fame; Josiah Wedgwood of pottery fame; Whitehurst the clockmaker with fossil interests; Mathew Bolton the pioneering engineer, and Thomas Day - writer of the first book for children, who promoted the education of girls. This is a fantastic story, key to the Scientific Enlightenment, yet all I see now is Darwin's microscope amidst a jumble of random objects, and alongside it a sign that reads 'here you will find no stories of white men; instead we invite you to make up your own stories around these objects'. Atrocious!!! I'm pleased to say that I have 4k video shot in the museums prior to the great purge, which I hope to do something with.
God Bless you Neil for having the courage to speak the truth in public at great risk to yourself. I pray that God will watch over you and your family; You stand in the breach!
I watched and listened fascinated by your presentation Neil. The full story being told in this manner will stay with me, better than any school lesson.
Thank you for all you do and also for putting the record straight on Culloden. It was Clan v's Clan / Religion v's Religion / Royal House v's Royal House / European Nation v's European Nation. What it absolutely was not was England v's Scotland.
Great episode Neil thank you! My dad before his passing traced our family tree back to bonnie Prince Charlie and the Stewart’s, was thinking it maybe explains my rebellious side.
I just watched a very good documentary on the peasants revolt of 1381. It seems that nothing has changed. In fact, the situation now is frighteningly similar. I am sure, being a historian, you would agree. The rich controlling everyone and seriously put out by anyone who doesn’t consent.
I grew up on your documentaries & I am now 40. I'm half Scott & half Dutch. The older I get the more red I get in my dark brown beard. If anything you could imagine I'm a trusty sword for warfare. Part Charlegmagne, part Wallace :) Two count's of tier1 skills in an insurgency against a papal monarch.
Love the sense of honesty and most importantly impartiality in the telling of this tragic story by Neil.......I could feel the sadness of this place and time, not to mention the sheer horror of it all. An excellent recounting by Neil again.......thank you for this perspective!
Culloden spookiest place I've ever been 100yards of clear ground around u feeling like ur moving through a dense crowd wouldn't willingly return certainly not at night
Another brilliant epistle! Thank you Neil. I was at Culloden once, July 2, 1971. It was a grey day, and there was only my then wife, a Johnston from St Andrews, and myself there. We walked the field and reviewed the cairns. I concluded that my Lamonts must have been lumped in with the "Mixed Clans". Only later, when I began to study Scottish and clan history ("The Clan Lamont", Hector McKechnie, 1935), did I realize that if there were any Lamonts at Culloden, they were under General Hawley, commander of the Hanoverian forces. It might have been one of the few times when the Lamonts and the Campbells, who had feuded in Cowal for centuries, were on the same side. Still, I found the experience of being at Culloden a powerful one full of sadness. Donald MacKay starts his little book "Scotland Farewell, The People of the Hector", with an account of seventeen year old Alexander Cameron standing on the rain-soaked northern slopes of Culloden Moor on 16 April, 1746, there to see "the battle". A non-combatant, he returned to Loch Broom and eventually sailed with nearly two hundred fellow highlanders aboard the ship Hector to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1773 where he settled and lived out his life. It was the beginning of serious Scottish emigration to Nova Scotia. MacKay's book is a good read. My Grandad, born in Ayrshire in 1873, who came to Canada in 1910, retired to Pictou after WWII, and I visited him there several times when I was a boy. He rests there now, with Jean Robertson, my Grannie, in Haliburton Cemetery just west of town. I never fail to pay a visit when I am back home in Nova Scotia.
First time listening and what a fantastic show, just subbed to this channel and now going to listen to all of the love letters to Britain podcasts. Nice one Neil, very informative. From and English Man living in The Port Of Glasgow. :-) 😀
The French have caused much strife between Ireland, Scotland and England. So many people have understood this down the years. Probably why people voted against EEC in 1973/5 and Brexit happened in 2016. Thank you Neil for such truthful videos of history. I read the book Culloden and was saddened that yet again politics had caused so much pain.
WE NEVER GOT TO VOTE IN1972 , WE were never asked for our Sovereign Consent Heath committed FRAUD, SEDITION & TREASON finally High TREASON by breaking Queens Oath of Office. and it was a clear Act of Treason and because of this Heath was in Fact Never the Prime Minister at LAW much like any Criminal in supposed Public Office, meaning we never joined the EEC/EU AS YOU CAN'T CONTINUE A MEMBERSHIP THAT'S NEVER EXISTED LEGALLY or LAWFULLY.
As a British/French I think your reasoning is simplistic. Through History divide and rule to survive and/or to thrive has been very much one of Britain policies in Europe and beyond. Britain joined the EEC in 1973 and, as a Brexiter myself, I am sure France has nothing to do with people voting to leave the EU; they were plenty of good reasons to do so!
@@JP-ve7pp yes my post was simplistic. There are very many nuances to history. However the further you go back….long before France became a unity of Kingdoms the rulers were fighting each other for power. England, Burgundy, Normandy, Gascony, Picardy and many more were under the same monarch and families intermarried. It was the infighting between those families that finally created France as we know it. Then came the Protestant/Catholic infighting. It is this infighting that I refer to. Again families who wanted Catholic rule which meant Rome and indeed the growing financial system. When making my comment I was thinking also of the Battle of the Boyne, and before that the French supporting the Spanish to dethrone Elizabeth 1 and subsequently the French supporting Mary Queen of Scots to take the English throne. Everywhere you look the French or the Parisians have wanted England for themselves. It goes all the way back to those original Kingdoms and families. It was Royally political. Now its Government Politics but still many of those old families are in the background.
Dear Neil, it was exactly one year ago that you presented your first episode of your podcast, now we are one year further, and it is still a interesting & informative, broadcast! Congratulations Neil!! In this month, in some places in February, they celebrate carnival, when there is in the same time celebrate your birthday. I wish you on this way a happy birthday!! A lot of joy, happiness, a good safety health, good luck, enjoy every day. Congratulations Neil 🎂🎉😉🍀
I visited friends who live at Logie. As we drove near the battle field I could feel the past. I have similar sensations at Lockerbie, there it's far more intense which I think is because none of the lost had any idea of what was going to happen. When it's a battle, those that are there know loss of their life is possible and so the essence left is different.
Thanks Neil. I'm in NZ, I have been to Culloden Battlefield. It was on my itinerary from the get go. I drove there and walked around the field and stood before the stones of remembrance. I felt like I was there again when I was watching your video. I don't know if my clan Elliot was anything to do with the battle but I felt a connection while I was there
I visited last year.. I feel a connection to the place from an Irish perspective, it is a sad place but very moving.. I love Scotland, the highlands in particular.. Thankyou for bringing everything to life..
I love our British history. Fascinating, thank you. It does make me wonder, with obvious corruption to more recent history, ensuring control/compliance. Was our history changed to fit a narrative?
👍 “Neill”: Ending so well said - ‘personally connected (to everything)’! / Paternal g-g-grandfather, Alexander Stewart, 2d Gen Scot, who lived in Culloden….(Prince Edward Island, Canada). His grandparents emigrated, sailing from Skye, presumed homeland. / Aloha! 🤙🏝️
I loved your insight from the time I was a wee lad watching you on Coast. Keep up the work, Neil. I hope we can still conserve and save Scotland 🏴 from complete eradication. May God bless Scotland 🏴 and may Scotland 🏴 return to Catholicism.
My great grandfather changed his name from O'Connor to Connor so he didn't appear to be a first generation immigrant from Ireland. All my DNA is from those Islands with a tiny bit from Scandinavia. It's strange to think of my ancestors possibly fighting in these battles and walking the places you show us. Thanks Neil.
Thank you Neil, it keeps me connected to my father who died in 2009. He was proud to have Highland danced for the ' old queen ', as he called her , as a child at the Highland Games.
My mom's real father was a Stewart from Glasgow. My mom was told she had direct ancestry to Bonnie Prince Charlie. My mother used her mother's maiden name as her middle name. Her biological father joined the merchant marine sometime after 1924 while she was a baby. She never saw a photo of her father. My grandmother sent the only photo she had of him to the police in Australia to try to locate him. Apparently, there are many Stewarts that emigrated there. My theory is that he settled there and probably never returned to England. My grandmother was a nurse in training at a hospital when she met him.
Gday from NZ! Keep it up guys. Discussing the topics that need light shined on them. Always seem to be more and more these days. One could say, too many to be contemplated at once. Together though, anything is possible. Keep it real, we'll done for the stuff you've already done. Stay groovy Neil and Co.
A brilliant love letter Neil. I too am affiliated to the Clan Cameron with a surname Chalmers. The way you summed up connections and random tentacles spreading back in time is at times,mind boggling. My father was a Dundonian (though we tend to gloss over that part 😊) and a German mother I guess makes me confused especially having been born roughly 6 miles from Neanderthal…. Love the way you add all sides into the mix.. Thank you.. Mike
As an Irishman I was never a fan of the act of union. Having said that, our shared history is very important and I believe we have far more in common than some might admit. I’m becoming a big fan of Neil and I’m really enjoying this video.
I think it's been many years in fact when you were much younger and if am mistaken did you do some excavation or something there at the barn ? Well I have camped many times at clava cairns I have been to Culloden millions of times originally am from Inverness and at balnain house 🏡 I played music there for a while but that's beside the point but balnain house had a connection to the battlefield I think it was used as a casualty point or a hospital for the English soldiers from what memory tells me but Culloden itself always has a sadness about it I can never explain it anyway another great podcast Neil ...
I'm a Gunn, a Jamison/Wilson and I have come to look at the battle in an entirely different way. The English monarch was an employee of the Dutch bankers, since Charles 11 who was a salaried employee of the bank as were the Redcoats. The fight was lost at the Battle of the Boyne, at a time when James was still minting his own money. It was a hopeless cause. !!!
Thanks Neil. There are so many now that appreciate you standing up for democracy, freedom and our future. You are one of the best orators that I listen to. I admire your bravery for sticking your head above the parapet, giving all of us who can see what's going on hope for the future. You have kept me sane in a totally insane world and I salute you and thankyou from the depths of my soul. Sending much love to you and your family. xx
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Well put - standing up for British culture, and revisiting, reminding and reviewing British history in order that we can face the challenges facing Britain's present and future issues; is what I learn by watching Neil's podcasts.
Excellently put. V well done. When 99.99% in TV Land went the way of £ and cowardice he stood strong. He truly is a great hero.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for dinner.
Two important things to keep in mind; Everything you want is on the other side of fear, so take the power back!
Not exactly….Many want nefarious things like child porn and other perverted life styles and what in is the way of fully “enjoying” nasty stuff like that is The Law, not fear.
I only went once so quite emir
Again. Thanks Neil. Who needs fictional narratives ? Reality always more poignantly interesting.
Offcom are coming for this dude
@@psalm1197 That isn't at all what I meant and I think you have missed the spirirt of the intention behind what I was saying and perverted it. well done 🙄
God bless you and your family always Neil. 🙏🏻
I'm afraid I've become hopelessly addicted to these wonderful podcasts. They give me such insight into human nature and how important our link is to the past in understanding how much our own present is also the future for newer generations.
Lovin the podcasts. 👍 . Many thanks. Neil for keeping us sane❤
Thank you Neil! just love listening to your soothing voice! it makes my day! 🥰
Thank you Mr Oliver for your podcasts. Sydney Australia
Excellent podcast! As an American, the bulk of my bloodline hearkens back to the British Isles, including Scotland, and I love to read about, and hear the history! It is always sad and thought provoking to walk across battlefields, and other areas where our ancestors have walked, lived, and died.
Thanks Neil.All the brilliant comments and you and others help me feel I am not alone...
It's always nice when you show up, you belong to the small exclusive group that uses your head for more than processing food..
Neil you are never ever talking to empty space. You are a beacon of reason, rationale and downright interest in this increasingly crazy world! Thank you 🌟🙏🥰
Thank you Neil. I had to go away half way through this to have a cup of tea and a good cry. I'm Aussie of convict ancestry and Scottish/Ulster descent and I have a son of more recent Scottish descent. My grandmother taught me Highland Dancing. Her grandfather left Scotland after the Crimean War and went to Nova Scotia and then on to Australia. I sometimes wonder if there is a continuum, in our DNA, of the experiences of our ancestors. Is this what makes us cry when we go to places to which we have never been or when we hear traditional music which is not familiar to us (except in the stirring of the soul), or the silent knowledge (which we call instinct), or the Deja Vu feeling when we meet a stranger or smell something which takes out of the present moment or feel the wind blow across us or the silence of a mist?
Neil your work through the years speaks for itself! Now you continue to draw like mined souls together to fight for freedom from Nobles, Elites, special interest groups from taking over the right of free thought! Hope you feel the love of those following you! Keep up the good fight!
We could not be a community without you and your amazing and informative videos plus we love your dogs too
At school I found history so dry and distant. 55 years on I find that same history utterly intriguing thanks to Neil’s ability to carry you through time so you can almost sense it in the present. Thanks Neil for opening my eyes to this boundless wonder.
Such a satisfying podcast - measured, thoughtful and revelatory - I learn something new and helpful every time
The halcyon days of my 20's, waking and having a doobie on a Sunday morning watching Time Team. Love you Neil! Things more serious in my 40s with kids and all the sh!t going on. You are a beacon of hope.
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Ditto
✊ *truth* too power ♾️👊🔥🐍🤺
Hello from Canada! I thank you so much for all the time and amazing information and commentary; you have been a rock of sanity to me over these past 2ish years. Deeply appreciate it.
I remember two men in a trench it is great to see you have not lost the passion for history. The trouble is people have not learned the lessons of the past. Freedom for all not just the rich and powerful.
Your podcasts reassure me that I’m not alone too. 🥂
Thanks Neil; now I understand better. I grew up in Derby, and have taken a special interest in Derby Museum and Art Gallery in recent years, as well as the Silk Mill museum. Outside the latter, now renamed, much to my disdain, the 'museum of making' is a statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and in the former is a dimly lit room that sets out to recreate the room in Derby in which BPC and his friends discussed what to do next, complete with sound effects.
Having said that, I fear it may have been destroyed in the recent woke purge of museums, along with the displays of geological ages behind glass that fascinated me as a child. Someone put a lot of work into those, complete with plants and animals, but last time I visited they had gone, replaced with a 'world exhibition' of random objects without explanation or meaning. The Museum of Making had also been purged.
This is only a few steps from the final home of Erasmus Darwin, and for fifteen years I have been urging the museum to feature the story of the 'Lunar Society' men: Erasmus Darwin (famed for his poems which influenced all the Romantic poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, etc, as well as for his description of Natural Selection, long before his grandson Charles expanded on the idea); James Watt, of steam engine fame; Josiah Wedgwood of pottery fame; Whitehurst the clockmaker with fossil interests; Mathew Bolton the pioneering engineer, and Thomas Day - writer of the first book for children, who promoted the education of girls.
This is a fantastic story, key to the Scientific Enlightenment, yet all I see now is Darwin's microscope amidst a jumble of random objects, and alongside it a sign that reads 'here you will find no stories of white men; instead we invite you to make up your own stories around these objects'. Atrocious!!!
I'm pleased to say that I have 4k video shot in the museums prior to the great purge, which I hope to do something with.
God Bless you Neil for having the courage to speak the truth in public at great risk to yourself. I pray that God will watch over you and your family; You stand in the breach!
As a Scot living in Austria, this episode was fascinating!
I watched and listened fascinated by your presentation Neil. The full story being told in this manner will stay with me, better than any school lesson.
Wow
Thank you
I thought it was the English & Scots
I hope more people watch your love letter and understand the real reason
More strength to you..
Thank you for all you do and also for putting the record straight on Culloden. It was Clan v's Clan / Religion v's Religion / Royal House v's Royal House / European Nation v's European Nation. What it absolutely was not was England v's Scotland.
Good afternoon Mr Neil Oliver. David from Scotland UK. Love your shows brother. 🙏🙋♂️
Love these talks, you often untie the knots of lies, misunderstandings and distortions we are taught. Thank you
Brilliant podcast. So interesting. Love and light to you and family x
Great episode Neil thank you! My dad before his passing traced our family tree back to bonnie Prince Charlie and the Stewart’s, was thinking it maybe explains my rebellious side.
Sad story but beautifully told by you Neil thank you
Thank you Neil for the Truth
I just watched a very good documentary on the peasants revolt of 1381. It seems that nothing has changed. In fact, the situation now is frighteningly similar. I am sure, being a historian, you would agree. The rich controlling everyone and seriously put out by anyone who doesn’t consent.
I grew up on your documentaries & I am now 40. I'm half Scott & half Dutch. The older I get the more red I get in my dark brown beard. If anything you could imagine I'm a trusty sword for warfare. Part Charlegmagne, part Wallace :) Two count's of tier1 skills in an insurgency against a papal monarch.
Thanks Neil ☺️
Neil Oliver national treasure..
Human Treasure.
@@nadine_ghc3465 tosser for $$$ fromgb bs news
@@patriciashannon6631If you say so.
@@nadine_ghc3465 fooled by msm
Visited Culloden, as a tourist, found it fascinating, and very interesting, but good to here you bring memories bach, thank you Neil
The Cameron Clan Stone is majestic!
Love the sense of honesty and most importantly impartiality in the telling of this tragic story by Neil.......I could feel the sadness of this place and time, not to mention the sheer horror of it all. An excellent recounting by Neil again.......thank you for this perspective!
Keep speaking our truth better than we can..! Love and Peas you’re our Man.✊🖖🙏
Culloden spookiest place I've ever been 100yards of clear ground around u feeling like ur moving through a dense crowd wouldn't willingly return certainly not at night
I really enjoyed that.
Excellent podcast, as usual! Please keep up the great work!
Another brilliant epistle! Thank you Neil.
I was at Culloden once, July 2, 1971. It was a grey day, and there was only my then wife, a Johnston from St Andrews, and myself there. We walked the field and reviewed the cairns. I concluded that my Lamonts must have been lumped in with the "Mixed Clans". Only later, when I began to study Scottish and clan history ("The Clan Lamont", Hector McKechnie, 1935), did I realize that if there were any Lamonts at Culloden, they were under General Hawley, commander of the Hanoverian forces. It might have been one of the few times when the Lamonts and the Campbells, who had feuded in Cowal for centuries, were on the same side. Still, I found the experience of being at Culloden a powerful one full of sadness.
Donald MacKay starts his little book "Scotland Farewell, The People of the Hector", with an account of seventeen year old Alexander Cameron standing on the rain-soaked northern slopes of Culloden Moor on 16 April, 1746, there to see "the battle". A non-combatant, he returned to Loch Broom and eventually sailed with nearly two hundred fellow highlanders aboard the ship Hector to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1773 where he settled and lived out his life. It was the beginning of serious Scottish emigration to Nova Scotia. MacKay's book is a good read.
My Grandad, born in Ayrshire in 1873, who came to Canada in 1910, retired to Pictou after WWII, and I visited him there several times when I was a boy. He rests there now, with Jean Robertson, my Grannie, in Haliburton Cemetery just west of town. I never fail to pay a visit when I am back home in Nova Scotia.
First time listening and what a fantastic show, just subbed to this channel and now going to listen to all of the love letters to Britain podcasts. Nice one Neil, very informative. From and English Man living in The Port Of Glasgow. :-) 😀
Neil is it possible to increase the amount of love letters to the British Isles to 200 please. As this series is just wonderful. Thank you very much.
It's time for good people like Neil to stand (pun intended) for the people. Trust is 100 % thanks from new Zealand.
What an extremely insightful talk. Thank you Neil.
Absolutely lovely to see you too Neil xx ❤️
Neil keep up the great work . You make so much sense.on this weird world we live in ❤
The French have caused much strife between Ireland, Scotland and England. So many people have understood this down the years. Probably why people voted against EEC in 1973/5 and Brexit happened in 2016. Thank you Neil for such truthful videos of history. I read the book Culloden and was saddened that yet again politics had caused so much pain.
WE NEVER GOT TO VOTE IN1972 , WE were never asked for our Sovereign Consent Heath committed FRAUD, SEDITION & TREASON finally High TREASON by breaking Queens Oath of Office. and it was a clear Act of Treason and because of this Heath was in Fact Never the Prime Minister at LAW much like any Criminal in supposed Public Office, meaning we never joined the EEC/EU AS YOU CAN'T CONTINUE A MEMBERSHIP THAT'S NEVER EXISTED LEGALLY or LAWFULLY.
As a British/French I think your reasoning is simplistic. Through History divide and rule to survive and/or to thrive has been very much one of Britain policies in Europe and beyond. Britain joined the EEC in 1973 and, as a Brexiter myself, I am sure France has nothing to do with people voting to leave the EU; they were plenty of good reasons to do so!
@@JP-ve7pp yes my post was simplistic. There are very many nuances to history. However the further you go back….long before France became a unity of Kingdoms the rulers were fighting each other for power. England, Burgundy, Normandy, Gascony, Picardy and many more were under the same monarch and families intermarried. It was the infighting between those families that finally created France as we know it. Then came the Protestant/Catholic infighting. It is this infighting that I refer to. Again families who wanted Catholic rule which meant Rome and indeed the growing financial system. When making my comment I was thinking also of the Battle of the Boyne, and before that the French supporting the Spanish to dethrone Elizabeth 1 and subsequently the French supporting Mary Queen of Scots to take the English throne. Everywhere you look the French or the Parisians have wanted England for themselves. It goes all the way back to those original Kingdoms and families. It was Royally political. Now its Government Politics but still many of those old families are in the background.
BTW my paternal grandparents were French/Scottish. My maternal grandparents going way back were Welsh. And therein lies more interesting history.
May eternal light shine upon him!
It’s so very powerful, the vibe you get even driving by there 🙏🏽
I’ve repeated the phrase “the cat and the torch”over and over.
Bless you, Neil!
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Dear Neil, it was exactly one year ago that you presented your first episode of your podcast, now we are one year further, and it is still a interesting & informative, broadcast! Congratulations Neil!! In this month, in some places in February, they celebrate carnival, when there is in the same time celebrate your birthday. I wish you on this way a happy birthday!! A lot of joy, happiness, a good safety health, good luck, enjoy every day. Congratulations Neil 🎂🎉😉🍀
Thanks neil, we all need your light at the moment.
These are dark times
I visited friends who live at Logie. As we drove near the battle field I could feel the past. I have similar sensations at Lockerbie, there it's far more intense which I think is because none of the lost had any idea of what was going to happen. When it's a battle, those that are there know loss of their life is possible and so the essence left is different.
Love you Big Man 🏴 you keep the faithful righteous my fellow patriot 🏴
Wonderful stuff. Thank you Neil and for your strength and resilience. 🙏
Thanks Neil. I'm in NZ, I have been to Culloden Battlefield. It was on my itinerary from the get go. I drove there and walked around the field and stood before the stones of remembrance. I felt like I was there again when I was watching your video. I don't know if my clan Elliot was anything to do with the battle but I felt a connection while I was there
Perhaps the connection was to do with being human, as they all were who died on that battlefield.
I feel as you do when i find out about my past family who fought in wars etc., i feel connected
That was so incredibly interesting, thank you so much, Neil!
Great.to.see.you.again, dear.Neil.! 😊😄Always.so.interesting.How.you.tell.us.about.the.Glorious.history.of U.K.
In my eyes your a scholar and a gentleman God bless the work you do its very interesting and informative.
I visited last year.. I feel a connection to the place from an Irish perspective, it is a sad place but very moving.. I love Scotland, the highlands in particular.. Thankyou for bringing everything to life..
Thank you. I enjoyed it.
Does anyone else hit the like button on Neil's excellent videos before even having watched it?
Never fails to deliver.
I love our British history. Fascinating, thank you. It does make me wonder, with obvious corruption to more recent history, ensuring control/compliance. Was our history changed to fit a narrative?
Culloden is a place where you can still feel the viciousness of war.
Great video! So well balanced as always!
👍 “Neill”: Ending so well said - ‘personally connected (to everything)’! / Paternal g-g-grandfather, Alexander Stewart, 2d Gen Scot, who lived in Culloden….(Prince Edward Island, Canada). His grandparents emigrated, sailing from Skye, presumed homeland. / Aloha! 🤙🏝️
I loved your insight from the time I was a wee lad watching you on Coast. Keep up the work, Neil. I hope we can still conserve and save Scotland 🏴 from complete eradication.
May God bless Scotland 🏴 and may Scotland 🏴 return to Catholicism.
This is an incredibly brilliant podcast on Scotland🏴 and on other parts of our isles!
This episode was so fascinating! It really put things into context for me.
We are behind you
Great show, Mr Oliver.
My great grandfather changed his name from O'Connor to Connor so he didn't appear to be a first generation immigrant from Ireland. All my DNA is from those Islands with a tiny bit from Scandinavia. It's strange to think of my ancestors possibly fighting in these battles and walking the places you show us. Thanks Neil.
The Mad Red Queen is gone!
Glory Hallelujah
Thank you
I’m sorry for your loss.
Great episode.
Thank you Neil, it keeps me connected to my father who died in 2009. He was proud to have Highland danced for the ' old queen ', as he called her , as a child at the Highland Games.
All the best!!
Thanks Neil. I think we got taught about this in school in the mid 80s, but probably not to this depth, thanks again.
Just clocked there's a Mrs Doubtfire appeal about Neil That TV broadcast that reassured the children and adults alike Priceless♥️
My mom's real father was a Stewart from Glasgow. My mom was told she had direct ancestry to Bonnie Prince Charlie. My mother used her mother's maiden name as her middle name. Her biological father joined the merchant marine sometime after 1924 while she was a baby. She never saw a photo of her father. My grandmother sent the only photo she had of him to the police in Australia to try to locate him. Apparently, there are many Stewarts that emigrated there. My theory is that he settled there and probably never returned to England. My grandmother was a nurse in training at a hospital when she met him.
Wonderful channel. I'd love to see you interview Scott Mannion. (A RUclipsr for the defence of tradition).
Best wishes
Thanks for helping me from thinking I’m mad through covid
That was really interesting, Neil. I learned a lot from this. Thank you.
No doubt about it, Man is a fighting critter.
Thank you for this. I will never visit that place of such tragedy.
Gday from NZ! Keep it up guys. Discussing the topics that need light shined on them. Always seem to be more and more these days. One could say, too many to be contemplated at once. Together though, anything is possible. Keep it real, we'll done for the stuff you've already done. Stay groovy Neil and Co.
Imagine having Mr Oliver as your history teacher when we were at school ?
Another school day on so many levels ✨
A brilliant love letter Neil.
I too am affiliated to the Clan Cameron with a surname Chalmers. The way you summed up connections and random tentacles spreading back in time is at times,mind boggling. My father was a Dundonian (though we tend to gloss over that part 😊) and a German mother I guess makes me confused especially having been born roughly 6 miles from Neanderthal….
Love the way you add all sides into the mix..
Thank you..
Mike
As an Irishman I was never a fan of the act of union. Having said that, our shared history is very important and I believe we have far more in common than some might admit. I’m becoming a big fan of Neil and I’m really enjoying this video.
This is excellent, thank you Neil!
I think it's been many years in fact when you were much younger and if am mistaken did you do some excavation or something there at the barn ? Well I have camped many times at clava cairns I have been to Culloden millions of times originally am from Inverness and at balnain house 🏡 I played music there for a while but that's beside the point but balnain house had a connection to the battlefield I think it was used as a casualty point or a hospital for the English soldiers from what memory tells me but Culloden itself always has a sadness about it I can never explain it anyway another great podcast Neil ...
I've been listening to a podcast on the secret history of Scotland. So fascinating. My paternal grandmother was a Scot.
I've been to Culloden 3 times now.... the first time I went I felt overwhelming sadness.
Keep on telling the truth as God is behind you! I need say no more.
I'm a Gunn, a Jamison/Wilson and I have come to look at the battle in an entirely different way. The English monarch was an employee of the Dutch bankers, since Charles 11 who was a salaried employee of the bank as were the Redcoats. The fight was lost at the Battle of the Boyne, at a time when James was still minting his own money. It was a hopeless cause. !!!
I love your podcast Neil. Bringing a friend next week to see you at the Delingpod live in London.
Can't wait!