Archaeologists discovered over 100 bullets at Culloden Battlefield, revealing new insights into the 1746 battle when Bonnie ...
While Outlander mixes time travel with historical fiction, the show has always made clever use of Scottish and American history to elevate its narrative. Now into its seventh season, the Starz series ...
Findlater Castle came into view like a mirage — an abandoned fortress camouflaged against Scotland's lonely northern coast. I had seen crumbled British coastal ruins before, but here I could make out ...
A political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne, the name derives from the first name of James II and VII, which in Latin translates ...
Yet many Scottish Jacobite leaders disapproved of this plan because they disliked and distrusted the English Jacobites; their preference was to consolidate Jacobite power in Scotland. In the Council ...
Drive northward in the United Kingdom, as I did with my family this past month, and beyond a certain latitude it becomes impossible to escape the Jacobites. Not to be confused, as sometimes happens, ...
Most people have heard of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites but their story is often only vaguely known or misunderstood. The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history.
Professor Leith Davis is co-ordinating a collaborative project with Kevin James and the University of Guelph's Centre for Scottish Studies on Networking Jacobites from 1688 to the present. Papers ...
Patriotic Scots, disgruntled Britons, scheming European nations - all got involved in the Jacobite cause. The uprisings gave rise to episodes of great bravery as well of tactical mistakes, and have ...