Old & Rare Scottish Tartans - was D.W. Stewart Colour Blind?

**Bugbear** · 10th November 10, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by figheadair

I don't have a problem with that unless one then states that the aim is to present the real facts which have been missed or misinterpreted by previous authors. Stewart presented his work as historically accurate. Hence my thread title.

I stepped in a history discussion again!

It sounds like he made it up, but I'm going by the information in this thread. I only know that there is a history of history being presented as historically accurate, later being found to have been partly made up or produced by unintentional blindness. Same goes for some of the archeology over here in the States. I'm not a historian, and I do not intend this to be a criticism of historians or the process of interpreting history.

**figheadair** · 13th November 10, 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

It sounds like he made it up, but I'm going by the information in this thread. I only know that there is a history of history being presented as historically accurate, later being found to have been partly made up or produced by unintentional blindness. Same goes for some of the archeology over here in the States. I'm not a historian, and I do not intend this to be a criticism of historians or the process of interpreting history.

I don't think he necessarly made things up but I do think that he was a sloppy historian/tartan expert. To demonstrate this I hope to get an article on-line today about the MacDonald of Kingsburgh that he was the first to show.