WHAT IF...WE HAD WON AT CULLODEN? SATURDAY ESSAY: The finest transport system in the world? A top class economy? THREE World Cup finals? Would all these treasures have come Scotland's way if the Jacobites had prevailed on a bleak Highland battlefield?

The Daily Mail (London, England) | August 26, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: ALLAN MASSIE

COUNTER FACTUAL history became popular, even with academic historians, a few years ago. It is a nice intellectual parlour game, or bar game, i f you prefer. It answers the question 'What if...?' and allows you to construct an alternative version of the past.

The game is being played again following a report this week that some historians believe the Jacobite defeat at Culloden was good for Scotland.

One of the most popular of Scottish historical 'What ifs?' concerns the 1745 Jacobite rising. It usually takes the form: 'What ...

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