Emily Chalmers | Exploring Scotland on Instagram: "🎄♥️Merry Christmas from the Highlands♥️🎄 Wearing tartan and celebrating Christmas.. two traditions deeply connected to Scotland.. were once suppressed for generations. Tartan was banned after the Jacobite Rising of 1745, when the British government outlawed Highland dress to break clan identity and resistance. Christmas, meanwhile, was discouraged by the Presbyterian Church for centuries as a Catholic or pagan excess. It wasn’t even recognised