… or why the kilt was invented for the benefit of factory workers.<\/p>\n
Ronald Hutton told some of this story in Witches, Druids And King Arthur<\/a>, but here is a review of a new book on the invention of Scottish-ness<\/a>, the late Hugh Trevor-Roper’s The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … or why the kilt was invented for the benefit of factory workers. Ronald Hutton told some of this story in Witches, Druids And King Arthur, but here is a review of a new book on the invention of Scottish-ness, the late Hugh Trevor-Roper’s The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-celts","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":741,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=741","url_meta":{"origin":1044,"position":0},"title":"Who’s a Celt now? – 2","author":"Chas S. 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