Assoc for Scottish Literature“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”
—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment
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The Scottish Bagpipe: Political and Religious Symbolism in English Literature and Satire - The Bottle Imp
If you try typing the word ‘bagpipe’ in Google Images, you might be forgiven for assuming the bagpipe world extends little beyond Scotland. Out of the first fifty images, only two show non-Highland bagpipes. This is indeed a culturally interesting detail, since there are hundreds of different kinds of bagpipe in the world — from […]
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