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Nadine Lee
‘Outlander’ Set For The Small Screen
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With over 20 million copies sold, Diana Gabaldon’s hugely successful series of novels set in the Highlands has been greenlit for televison. Outlander centres around a love story between an 18th Cent...
Topics: 1745 rebellion, Castle Leod, Claire Randall, Diana Gabaldon, Dr Who, Earl of Cromartie, Historical Fiction, Jacobite, Jacobite Rising, Jamie Fraser, John Mackenzie, Outlander, Starz, Television, Fraser, Mackenzie
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Clach na Bratach
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The Clach na Bratach is considered to be the most precious relic of the Clan Robertson. It is a rock crystal charm stone and was unearthed when the chief's standard pole was pulled from the ground w...
Topics: Clach na Bratach, Countess of Breadlabane, Jacobite Rising, Robertson
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The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie
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The Battle of Killiecrankie, fought on the 16th of July, 1689, was part of the Jacobite Risings trying to get James VII/II back on the throne in Scotland, England, and Ireland. It was a bloody victo...
Topics: Battle of Killiecrankie, Glorious Revolution, Jacobite Rising, Scottish Hauntings
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Battle of Prestonpans site changes
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A team of archaeologists led by Dr. Tony Pollard from the University of Glasgow's Centre for Battlefield Archaeology (Guard) have concluded in a report that the 1745 Battle of Prestonpans probably too...
Topics: Battle of Prestonpans, Jacobite Rising
Nadine Lee
The Sonny Sonny Banks of Loch Lomond
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In the little community of Marchmont in Edinburgh, one of the interesting characters you’ll see about the streets is Sonny Fascia, otherwise known as DJ Sonny. I first met Sonny at the cosy pub in th...
Topics: 1745 rebellion, Andrew Lang, Bonnie Prince Charlie, edinburgh, Flora Macdonald, hip-hop, Jacobite Rising, Loch Lomond, Marchmont, Maxine Sullivan, show trials, the low road, turntablism