#jacobite — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jacobite, aggregated by home.social.
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Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair of them together
https://scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/29/the-scottish-song-guide-episode-1-killiecrankie/
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong
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Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
Whare hae ye been sae brankie, O?
Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
Came ye by Killiecrankie, O?—“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819).
The Battle of Killiecrankie ⚔️ was fought #OTD, 27 July, 1689. A Jacobite force led by Ewan Cameron of Lochiel & Viscount Dundee defeated a Scottish government army commanded by Hugh Mackay
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong
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British Grenadiers fighting against Scottish Jacobite rebels, Battle of Culloden, 1746 AD
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The Winter Sea (Slains Book 1) "I honestly believed it was my own decision, turning off the main road for the smaller one that ran along the coastline." Sale: $8.99 to $6.17 by Susanna Kearsley Rating: 4.6/5 (10,651 Reviews) #Historical #TimeTravel #Romance #Scotland #Jacobite #BookSky
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Another genealogy stop: Dunnottar Castle in Stonehaven, #Scotland. tamraskye.com/dunnottar-st... Kevin also walked the entire grounds with a 360 cam, so hopefully that's a future sharing. Some #Jacobite #History here too for those who are interested. #travel #castles
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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”
Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson
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Today's poem:
A Fiddler in the North
by Robert Burnshttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/788214369417822208/a-fiddler-in-the-north?source=share
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Depressed with current affairs, I have taken to reading the news of 1745. It seems it was much safer to pretend to be 'The Pretender' than to drink to his health! 1000 lashes? Ouch. Also, no evidence to prove him guilty but still marched out of town by the hangman? #history #Jacobite #Culloden #Scotland
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Jacobite manuscripts held in archives in Edinburgh & Glasgow
19 June, Mitchell Library, Glasgow – freeThese manuscripts offer insights into the motivations & experiences of those who lived through the uprisings in often surprising ways, including the methods by which this information was recorded
Ralph McLean is Manuscripts Curator for Long 18th Century Collections at the National Library of Scotland
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Scotia’s Warriors heritage group visit the Dean Castle, Kilmarnock
#jacobite #earlwilliamboyd #ayrshire #scottishhistory #scotland #canon -
Taigh-feachd an Ruadhainn
Ruthven Barracks.
#Highlands #Jacobite #Scotland #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine
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CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR
a play in one act
J.A. FergusonJ.A. Ferguson’s CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR is set during the bloody aftermath of the battle of Culloden. Written on the eve of the First World War, CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR revolves around themes of loyalty, sacrifice, & betrayal, the power of the State & the potential for the corruption of that power
Free PDF download:
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/campbell-of-kilmohr/#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #drama #theatre #play #Jacobite #Culloden
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“The view of the Jacobites as quasi-colonial primitives is persistent […] In the Year of the Prince, the last centrally Scottish army mounted serious military opposition to the British government. The seriousness of Jacobitism is ignored because the power of the threat undermines the story of British unity.”
—Prof Murray Pittock on “Whig History” & Culloden
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/11/jacobitism-in-history/
#Scottish #literature #history #Jacobite #18thcentury #Culloden
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Shedding New Light on the Jacobites
“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 talk given in 2023, Prof Leith Davis discusses the latest findings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-zGX49O0
#Scottish #literature #history #Jacobite #Culloden #manuscript #18thcentury
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In “Highland Songs of the ’45”, the National Trust for Scotland shares original audio recordings of #Gaelic songs collected by archivist John Lorne Campbell from Canna
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“The representation in Gaelic literature of Culloden […] makes a study of that literature, even in translation, a vital corrective to that of more exclusively English or Scottish literature in Scots & English.”—Prof Alan Riach
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18371691.poetry-battle-culloden-signified/
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The battle of Culloden was fought #OTD, 16 April 1746. It has, unsurprisingly, left a significant imprint in the literature & culture of Scotland. A short 🧵
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John Buchan called FLEMINGTON—Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 #Jacobite rising & aftermath—“the best Scots #romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”
FLEMINGTON is available free on @gutenberg_org
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55361
#Scottish #literature #history #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen
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(Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes’s “The Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript
15 Feb, Aberdeen University – freeProf Leith Davis will discuss the stories contained in “The Lyon in Mourning”, highlighting material related to a number of Jacobite men and women who would be otherwise lost to history
#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #jacobite #manuscript
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Today's video for December is about a woman who challenged a King and rebuilt a shattered family legacy : Mary Gordon of Kenmure.
I am currently revisiting the Kenmure story for a longer film, and Mary's story is a significant part of that! Watch this space for that.
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Lizzie Lothian à Gleann Lìobhainn. Shabaid a sean-seanair aig Cul Lodair leis na Seumasaich.
Perthshire Gael, Lizzie Lothian, of Glen Lyon whose grandfather fought with the Jacobites at Culloden.
#Scotland #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #ThrowbackThursday #Perthshire #Jacobite #MastoDaoine
