Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites
Author: David Forsyth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781910682081

In the summer of 1745 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', grandson of James VII and II landed on the Isle of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. He would be the Jacobite Stuarts' last hope in the fight to regain the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. A major new exhibition on Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites opens at the National Museum of Scotland, and tells a compelling story of love, loss, exile, rebellion and retribution. It will challenge many of the misconceptions that still surround this turbulent period in European history.This book has eight specially commissioned essays on the Jacobites and includes a catalogue that showcases the rich wealth of objects in the exhibition.00Exhibition: National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (23.06.-12.11.2017).

Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion

Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion
Author: Margaret Diane Sankey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Jacobite rebellion of 1715 was a dramatic but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to the new Hanoverian regime in Great Britain. This book considers how the Hanoverian Whig regime was able to quell the immediate dangers posed by the rebellion and bring the Jacobite leaders back into the orbit of the government, beginning the process of reintegrating them back into the political mainstream.

The Jacobites

The Jacobites
Author: Daniel Szechi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9781526123183

This book is a comprehensive survey of the Jacobite movement, from its violent counter-revolutionary origins to its bitter conclusion. Written to be easily accessible, it takes into account the latest research and is designed to provide an easy introduction to the field.

The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry

The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry
Author: R.B. Fleming
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 341
Release: 1994-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1770706917

For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left Lochaber around 1800 to settle in Glengarry County. This book deals with the conditions in Scotland before migration, settlement experiences in Glengarry, and the spread of these Scots-Canadians from Glengarry to the American and Canadian wests. There are fur trade and Métis connections, and even ties with the Caribbean. As well as colourful articles, this book contains a wealth of genealogical information, family trees, maps, photographs and other illustrations.