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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?
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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 Ja...
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