“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”
—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment
🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day! A 🎶🧵
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