It is always poignant being at a spot where many have died and Culloden, particularly, has deep resonances in the Scottish psyche - on both sides. Sadly society was less inclusive in those far off days and the aftermath of Culloden was anything but unique. You only have to consider the fate of native Australian and American peoples or the massacres in India to realise that the British Empire was hardly a beacon of enlightenment and that many Scots took part in the expansion of that empire just as they did at Culloden.