Battle Of Killiecrankie 1689
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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).
Author | : Gregory Fremont-Barnes |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147281035X |
The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on the British throne and it saw the death throes of the independent martial prowess of the Highland clans. No event in British history has been more heavily romanticized, but Gregory Fremont-Barnes succeeds in stripping away the myths to reveal the key events of this crucial period. From questions of dynastic succession to religious dominance, the events leading to the Rebellion are carefully explained and analyzed, drawing upon a host of primary research. From the landing of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the battle of Culloden, this book offers a complete overview of the Rebellion, complete with detailed maps and beautiful period illustrations.
Author | : Robert Chambers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. Pringle Thomson |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2022-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)" by J. Pringle Thomson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Pittock Murray Pittock |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : Clans |
ISBN | : 1474471684 |
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in The Economist and Scotland on Sunday, on Radio Scotland and elsewhere. The argument of the book has been widely accepted, although it is still ignored by media and heritage representations which seek to depoliticise the Rising of 1745.Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this new expanded second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years.
Author | : Alistair MacLeod |
Publisher | : Emblem Editions |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1551995476 |
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.
Author | : Jonathan Oates |
Publisher | : Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781804513866 |
This book covers the campaign of 1715-1716 in Scotland which had as its defining moment the battle of Sheriffmuir on 13 November 1715.
Author | : Martin Coventry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 9781899874019 |
A pocket-sized guide to Scottish history, and the dark deeds, battles, and political struggles involved. Details of over 200 historical places to visit are also included.
Author | : Rosemary Sutcliff |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448172888 |
It is seventeenth-century Scotland, and the Covenanters – those wanting religious freedom from the dictates of English rule – are gathering strength. Hugh Herriott, fresh from a Covenanting background, finds himself working for redcoat Colonel Claverhouse and his Lady Jean: first as the stable-lad and in later years, as galloper to Claverhouse. The tension mounts between the two sides of the divided country. Claverhouse, with Hugh always by his side, leads his troops in bloody battle against the Covenanters, through forest and valley, village and town, victory... and loss.
Author | : Paul Hopkins |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788853954 |
Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national politics. Besides filling a blank in our knowledge of the Highlands in the decade following the Massacre, the book transforms our perspective on lowlands politics by showing that the Inquiry was part of a secret patriotic campaign to break the aristocracy's political stranglehold and increase the Scottish parliament's powers.