If polled, I’m pretty sure that most here would side with the Jacobites historically, rather than with the House of Hanover or staying neutral. Some might even today still state support for a Jacobite sovereign on the British throne.

But would a Jacobite victory in 1745/6 actually have been good for Scotland ?

Take off the tartan-tinted spectacles and the answer might be no, as Arthur Herman, argues in his book “How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It”.

What do you think ?