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Let me start off this post with a caveat. If you are a serious scholar or indeed if you have ever read a book or even paid attention during a documentary about the Jacobite rebellionsthen best to move...

Topics: Jacobite

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Braveheart Impersonator Charged With Firearms Offences

by Nadine Lee

Adam Watters – Braveheart Impersonator. Photo courtesy of Deadline News A Braveheart impersonator has been charged with firearms offences after police received a complaint about “a man with a blue fac...

Topics: braveheart, edinburgh, Jacobite, Police, William Wallace

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The Massacre of Glencoe

by Nadine Lee

Today marks the 321st anniversary of the Massacre of Glencoe, in which 38 MacDonald of Glencoe clansmen were murdered on direct orders from the crown. The death warrant signed by King William III prov...

Topics: Campbell, glencoe, Jacobite, MacDonald, Massacre of Glencoe, Scottish Socialist Republican Movement, William III

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An Unlikely Jacobite Hero

by Nadine Lee

A number of molehills have sprung up across the battlefield site at Culloden, much to the delight of a Jacobite supporters group. The Circle of Gentlemen – a Highland based Jacobite supporters socie...

Topics: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Circle of Gentlemen, Culloden, Jacobite, molehills, William III

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Shining in History - Five Scottish Heroines

by Nadine Lee

Upon the death of Scottish Doctor and Suffragist Elsie Inglis, Winston Churchill remarked that Inglis and her band of nurses would ‘shine in history’. From a Lady who raised rebel troops, to a seafari...

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