Romantic highlands with sheep or the end of highland life? (1780-1850): people living in the Highlands were moved off the good lands to make way for massive and very profitable sheep farms, destroying a communal way of life dating back to the Picts!  The stereotypical and idillic portrayal on calendars of sheep grazing peacefully in the romantic hills of the Highlands shows disrespect for the history of the most authentic Scots.  Many moved voluntarily to seek work in the big factories or were recruited to fight in the British forces extending or defending the Empire, but most were forced to leave – their cottages were burned.  Draconian laws were introduced to uproot Highland culture by forbidding the tartan kilt, playing the bagpipe, orgainizing Highland Games, etc (gradually repealed starting in 1792).