The "Seven Men of Moidart" is a Jacobite memorial to seven companions who landed with Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. It originally comprised seven beech trees and was planted in the mid-1800s. There are now rather fewer trees. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/acharacle/sevenmen/index.html

#Scotland #Moidart #Jacobites #SevenMen #Trees #UndiscoveredScotland

278 years ago today. Prince Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", raised his standard at Glenfinnan on 19 August 1745, starting the ill-fated 1745 Jacobite uprising. The Glenfinnan Monument was erected on the spot in 1815. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenfinnan/monument/index.html

#Scotland #GlenfinnanMonument #Jacobites #Glenfinnan LochShiel #OnThisDay #UndiscoveredScotland

334 years ago today. Jacobites won a victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie in Perthshire on 27 July 1689, but arguably also lost the war that day. Amongst those killed was the Jacobite commander, 1st Viscount Dundee, "Bonnie Dundee". More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/blairatholl/killiecrankie/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #Killiecrankie #Perthshire #BattleOfKilliecrankie #Jacobites #UndiscoveredScotland

Scottish GENES: The BBC Time Flyers programme that was never broadcast https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-bbc-time-flyers-programme-that-was.html #archaeology #genealogy #FamilyHistory #military #Jacobites

A good read & historically accurate: The Bookseller of Inverness. #Scotland #Jacobites https://booksfromscotland.com/2022/07/the-bookseller-of-inverness/

304 years ago today. Jacobites and Spanish marines lost the Battle of Glen Shiel on 10 June 1719, the culmination of an ill-fated incursion intended to divert government forces away from an already cancelled invasion of southern Britain. More pics and info https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenshiel/battle/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #GlenShiel #BattleOfGlenShiel #Jacobites #Kintail #UndiscoveredScotland

For the #Jacobites
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Who-Is-the-Stuart-Heir-to-the-British-Throne

“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland, contains conversations, narrative accounts, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 #Jacobite rising. In this video of a talk given on 11 April, Dr Leith Davis discusses the latest findings
#Scottish #literature #Jacobites #18thCentury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-zGX49O0

277 years ago today. The last pitched battle fought on the British mainland saw Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) suffer a crushing defeat at the Battle of Culloden, east of Inverness, on 16 April 1746. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverness/culloden/index.html

#Scotland #BattleOfCulloden #Culloden #Battle #Inverness #Jacobites #UndiscoveredScotland

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GideonCoe

Jacobites:
🎵 Hearts Are Like Flowers

#Jacobites

https://open.spotify.com/track/4RefMOySCyPaGmTQpefvio

https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/hearts-are-like-flowers

Happy #TartanDay!

This tartan is for the #Scottish #Clan "Cameron of Lochiel."

Among its most notable Clan Chiefs is Donald Cameron, the 22nd Chief of the Camerons, known as "The Gentle Cameron." (Born 1695, died 1748.)

During the #JacobiteRebellion of 1745, he fought for the cause of #BonniePrinceCharlie, but showed great mercy to the defeated city of Glasgow, which the city still recognizes today.

The Chief earned the name "Gentle Lochiel" for having spared #Glasgow when the #Stuart army retreated north, and in gratitude the citizenry decreed that the bells of the #TolboothKirk should forever be rung whenever his descendants passed through the city.

#Scotland #ScottishHistory #History #Tartan #Tartans #Cameron #Clans #ClanCameron #Jacobite #Jacobites #ScotsHistory #Genealogy #Geneadons #Histodons

Recharging both car and mind.

Enjoying reading this book, short chapters about specific women of the '45 (and '15). Not overly academic at all and it‹s cool hearing about how the power dynamics differed in the past.

#jacobites #The45 #Scotland #bookstodon

Mary Gordon was the widow of William Gordon,  sixth Viscount Kenmure.  William was executed at Tower Hill in London for his part in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion.  After his death,  Mary was left to pick up the pieces of the Kenmure Estates. 

https://youtu.be/nT4kcI8sJdA

#Galloway #history #womenshistorymonth #video #Jacobites #Scotland #YouTube

Browsing again a supposed #Jacobite ancestor's 1761 after-death inventory, and intrigued by the "tree of the Steuart family" in there. Then there's his list of 40 or so #books I really should do more with this. He previously owned Bowhill in #Selkirkshire and Glen in #Peeblesshire. #Jacobites #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilyTree #ScottishBorders #ScottishHistory #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #Scotland #BookHistory

Browsing again a supposed #Jacobite ancestor's 1761 after-death inventory, and intrigued by the "tree of the Steuart family" in there. Then there's his list of 40 or so #books I really should do more with this. He previously owned Bowhill in #Selkirkshire and Glen in #Peeblesshire. #Jacobites #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilyTree #ScottishBorders #ScottishHistory #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #Scotland

In Iceland there is a house named after a (not yet) Lord Dillon who spent a year here in the 1830s. There is a simple and rather sad romantic story connected to the house. It seemed an easy episode idea for my podcast #StoriesOfIceland.

Was this gentleman Catholic or Protestant? I ended up digging through #IrishHistory, specifically the #Jacobites and the #WilliamiteWar. I had to cut most of it from the episode but I will likely return to the subject in the future.

https://storiesoficeland.com/a-winter-in-iceland-1834-1835/

My second most popular list is about Kenmure #Castle in #Galloway, home of the Viscounts Kenmure, the Gordons. They have been #Jacobites and #Covenanters , #rebels and #traitors, and many famous names from history have been associated with them.
The History of Kenmure Castle:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZywkQyl80s6BOmAdndP46R9-n7cq9CKl

277 years ago today. The Battle of Falkirk Muir was fought on 17 January 1746 and was the last significant Jacobite success during the rising of 1745, a rising that had seen them advance as far south as Derby on 4 December 1745. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/falkirkmuir/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #BattleOfFalkrkMuir #Battle #Jacobites #Jacobite #Falkirk #UndiscoveredScotland

300 years ago, the Atterbury Plot, attributed to the notoriously aggressive Francis Atterbury, failed. The investigation into this plot destroyed the Jacobites and strengthened Robert Walpole's dawning premiership. Find out more👇
http://ow.ly/fElX50LWkLQ

@GeorgianLords @histodons @histodon #Walpole #Jacobites #Histodons

The view along Loch Shiel from above its head at Glenfinnan in Lochaber, showing the mountains on its south-east shore and Eilean Ghleann Fhionainn. It was at Glenfinnan that Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard in August 1745. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenfinnan/glenfinnan/index.html

#Scotland #Lochaber #Glenfinnan #LochShiel #Mountains #Jacobites #UndiscoveredScotland