internationalbagpipeday

“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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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

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