Mountebank History of Scotland

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The Mountebank History of Scotland by Scottish stand-up comedian Daniel Downie is a comedy history series charting Scotland’s history from the 1st century to the current day. Laugh a lot while you learn a little!

13/05/2021

#31 - The Great Montrose

James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, the 'Great Montrose' won a series of brilliant, almost impossible victories over the Covenanters in 1644-45 that is remembered as the 'Year of Miracles'. Such a run of near impossible victories wouldn't be seen again in British history until Leicester won the league in 2016. Montrose fought to make himself 'Master of Scotland' but like Alex Salmond it all came crashing down around him, not because he was 'grabby' or anything, his Royalist cause lost support and unlike Ruth Davidson he didn't have a peerage in the House of Lords to fall back on now he wasn't as popular in Scotland.

43 min
29/04/2021

#30 - War of the Three Kingdoms

When civil war broke out in England in 1642 both the English Parliamentarians and Royalists petitioned the Scots Covenanters for their support. The Covenanters had the strongest army across all three kingdoms, they had defeated the Royalist forces of Charles I with remarkable ease in the Bishop Wars of 1639/40. The Covenanters may have been miserable bastards but they were also very successful - like Andy Murray.

36 min
22/04/2021

#29 - The National Covenant

Charles I tried desperately to assimilate the Scottish Presbyterian kirk with the English Anglican church, when he introduced a new Common Prayer Book to Scotland in 1637 an Edinburgh woman called Jenny Geddes famously reacted by throwing her stool at the Dean of St Giles Cathedral's head - by stool I mean what she was sat on, she wasn't throwing handfuls of shite at the guy. The result of Charles's constant meddling in Scotland's religion was the National Covenant signed at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh in February 1638, the Covenant was sent around the country and pretty soon acquired more signatures than is required to send something to the EU post-Brexit

36 min
01/04/2021

#28 - James VI (Union of the Crowns)

Queen Elizabeth I died in the early hours of the 29th of March 1603 having resolutely refused to name an heir, to marry, or to attempt to conceive an heir. It meant the famed Tudor dynasty came to an end in the hands of a pasty-white, red-headed-leader - just like the end of Celtic’s dynasty, except where Elizabeth refused to be pumped Neil Lennon was quite happy to get pumped every other weekend. Elizabeth’s death meant James inherited her throne and became James VI of Scotland and James I of England and Ireland, the first monarch to rule over the entire British Isles.

46 min
25/03/2021

#27 - James VI (Satanic Panic)

James obsession with sorcery, witchcraft, and satanism would lead to thousands of innocent, predominantly women, being tried, tortured, and executed as witches. Thousands suffered because of one man's obsession, one insipid, sweaty, balding, misogynistic, xenophobic, orange, small-handed, pussy-grabbing, prick of a king - but it's very difficult to put in any kind of 21st century context

40 min
18/03/2021

#26 - James VI (Exemplary Protestant Leader)

James was given a vigorous education as a child, he was being raised to be an 'Exemplary Protestant Leader' - which is what Arlene Foster has printed on her business cards. James was a child genius and probably the most intelligent world leader until Donald Trump, and like Donald Trump he too was in love with a family member, not his daughter but a Stuart cousin Esme Stuart. Esme Stuart was a dashing Frenchman in his 30's and James a 13-year-old boy king, it was an age gap even Rod Stewart would have found inappropriate

43 min
11/03/2021

#25 - Mary Queen of Scots (Prison, Plots, and Execution)

Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire on the 8th of February 1587. The English went and beheaded our queen, and since they got to behead our queen it's only fair we should get to behead their's - head for a head and all that. Mary was found guilty of 'imagining diverse matters tending to the death and destruction of the queen of England', if they executed Mary for 'imagining' the queen's death then Meghan Markle is in real bother.....

39 min
04/03/2021

#24 - Mary Queen of Scots ('Escape' to England)

By the time of Mary’s ‘escape’ to England in May 1568 both her mother and father were dead, she had two dead husbands, she ruled over a country that had changed its religious and political structures overnight, was berated by angry Protestants, put down a rebellion by her brother, witnessed the horrific murder of her secretary, was imprisoned and escaped, won back her kingdom, married the man responsible for killing her husband, was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, imprisoned, miscarried twins, abdicated her throne, escaped again, almost won her kingdom back, then fled to an English relative who had her locked up and murdered – she was like every Eastenders Christmas special rolled into one

35 min

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mountebanktours
Years Active

2020 - 2021
Episodes

32
Rating

Explicit
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Mountebank History of Scotland

Mountebank History of Scotland

#31 - The Great Montrose

#30 - War of the Three Kingdoms

#29 - The National Covenant

#28 - James VI (Union of the Crowns)

#27 - James VI (Satanic Panic)

#26 - James VI (Exemplary Protestant Leader)

#25 - Mary Queen of Scots (Prison, Plots, and Execution)

#24 - Mary Queen of Scots ('Escape' to England)

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Mountebank History of Scotland

Episodes

#31 - The Great Montrose

#30 - War of the Three Kingdoms

#29 - The National Covenant

#28 - James VI (Union of the Crowns)

#27 - James VI (Satanic Panic)

#26 - James VI (Exemplary Protestant Leader)

#25 - Mary Queen of Scots (Prison, Plots, and Execution)

#24 - Mary Queen of Scots ('Escape' to England)

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