History Past Present and Future

Who makes history, the answer to that question is ‘we all do’ it is in everything we do, say or that happens to us, if we go to the supermarket and buy a pint of milk or pick the kids up from school that is making history, but from those two events we learn, if for example the supermarket always runs out of milk an hour before the time that we went to buy ours then the next time we want milk we will make sure that we go an hour earlier, or if the kids are particularly troublesome when they finish school then perhaps we will go a little later and hope to miss them.

So we can and do learn from history even if it was only made the day before, and we then shape the history of tomorrow because of what we have learned today, so history does affect our future in more ways and more often than any of us are ever really aware of. It would be impossible to create a record of every event in every person’s life that would cover even one day, so a massive amount of useful knowledge is lost to humanity and as a result we find that in the main only the most significant national or world events are written down usually at the time or soon after, history tells us a great deal about a person and a nation what they have done and therefore what they may do in the future, so you see history is past, present and future.

This is basically a Scottish website with international interest so first we must try to tell our international members about ourselves and our history but we must also try to include some items that will cover their own countries, so if any member has such an item you think may be of interest to us all then please send it to the Webmaster and we will try to use it on the following pages.

The Highland Clearances

The Scottish Crown Jewels

History

Declaration of independence