AHC: Prevent the Crushing of the Highland Clans

With no PoDs more than one year prior to the outbreak of the Jacoboite Rising of 1745 (so August 1744), how can the measures that sought to crush the Highland way of life following said rebellion OTL be prevented or delayed as long as possible? And what would be the effects?

One answer I found:
the way of life of the highland clans was dying before the purge, the advent of the clearences was driven by the english co opting of clan chiefs into becoming english aristocrats with a funny accent. if you fast forward the rise of colonies such as new zealand and australia and their herds of sheep you could delay the shattering of the clan structure (there would be no money in getting rid of the tennants) what you would be left with would be areas with resources becoming industrialised as in OTL and the rest becoming even more of a squalid pesthole than it was in OTL yeah you would have clans, you would however get simular levels of emmigration as subsistance farming sucks and you need lots of free labour ie kids to even have a chance, producing land hungry young people (in OTL whole families/villages were turfed out) when you get to the victorian age even more faux hunting holiday resorts would exist as they would have cheap labour on hand
 
Perhaps have the Jacobites succeed. Which could lead to a remenant of Gaelic culture still
Being there.

Also I'd say calling the highlands a squalid oesthole is not only insulting its deeply naive and full on stupid.
 
I mean. It's a class structure based on feudal norms, there the landlords lived it up down south while their tenants starved.
 
I suspect that a Jacobite victory in 1745 would delay but not avert the destruction of the Highland clans. There was a considerable amount of animosity, of a similar kind to what you always find when pastoral and more settled communities are living in close proximity, between the lowland Scots and the Highlanders, and with the increasing pressure of industrialization that will boil over eventually. It is just a question of when the restored Stuarts forget who they owe their throne to. Alternatively, the establishment of a probably unpopular Catholic monarchy could eventually trigger a British Revolution, which would then crush the Highlanders.

teg
 
@VVD0D95 and @teg What about the opposite approach, where Bonnie Prince Charlie decides to take the hint from the failed French invasion and agrees to cancel his plans to return to Scotland?

That might delay things for a while, potentially until as late as the mid-19th century. By that point though, we've reached the age of print capitalism and nationalism, so the highland clans might end up being destroyed in a way more akin to the Blue Books. I think its more likely that they'll be ground down by piecemeal land disputes and local clearances by the Scottish aristocracy, who after all will still have the British state backing them up.

One significant change from this, particularly the slower clearances scenario, could be that Highland culture never becomes as accepted among the lowland Scots as a mark of Scottish national identity and instead is considered 'barbarous'.

teg
 
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