{"id":1523,"date":"2020-10-03T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T09:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:17","slug":"scotch-songs-and-english-perceptions-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/scotch-songs-and-english-perceptions-of-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Scotch Songs&#8217; and English Perceptions of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog from the Centre for Scottish Culture&#8217;s Dr Allan Kennedy we learn about the &#8216;Scotch&#8217; songs that were popular in England during the time of the Restoration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1524\" style=\"width: 569px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-10.25.36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1524\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-10.25.36.png\" alt=\"A popular song\" width=\"569\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-10.25.36.png 569w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-10.25.36-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A popular song, The Scotch Soldiers Kindness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the late 17th century, we learn, the English viewed their Scottish neighbours in a particular way that was reflected in these songs about rural life and love affairs. Find out more on the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/dundeescottishculture.org\/history\/scotch-songs-and-english-perceptions-of-scotland-in-the-restoration\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog from the Centre for Scottish Culture&#8217;s Dr Allan Kennedy we learn about the &#8216;Scotch&#8217; songs that were popular in England during the time of the Restoration. In the late 17th century, we learn, the English viewed their Scottish neighbours in a particular way that was reflected in these songs about rural life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-music"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}