Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapters 3-4

[regshoe]

But till my last moments my words are the same: there'll never be peace until Jamie comes hame...

The penultimate week of the read-along, and in these chapters we are still very Jacobite.

Next week we will, sadly, read Part V Chapter 5 and the Epilogue.

Comments

[luzula]

I think Ewen would be very confused about the EU and Brexit! What do you mean, most of the European countries have been at peace and sort of had a common government for the past fifty years? ...where's the French king? ...why are there so few people in the Highlands and no one is farming it?? ...OMG, women are wearing pants! ...oh hey, Scottish independence, I'm definitely for that! \o/ And I can still go to the Episcopal Church, but arrrgh, they now accept the descendants of the Elector of Hanover! /o\

[hyarrowen]

Makes one wonder what it'll look like in another 250 years, if we all survive that long.

[regshoe]

One of the interesting things about learning about Jacobite history has been seeing how some contemporary political issues—like IndyRef!—are very much the results of that history having happened the way it did, or part of the same historical story, while other things about the world today are so very different from anything anyone in the 18th century would have recognised.

(Would women wearing trousers be easier to accept for someone who was used to men wearing kilts, or not? Certainly anti-Jacobite propaganda made a lot of the 'petticoats' thing, idk whether that generalises...)