#jacobites — Public Fediverse posts

10/10

Cuil-lodair, is Briseadh na h-Eaglaise,
is briseadh nan tacannan –
lamhachas-làidir dà thrian de ar comas;
’se seòltachd tha dhìth oirinn…

—Ruaraidh MacThòmais, “Cruaidh?” (Derick Thomson, “Steel?”)
in CREACHADH NA CLÀRSAICH/Plundering the Harp (Macdonald Publishers, 1982)

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/cruaidh/

#Scottish #literature #history #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry

9/10

You understand it? How they returned from Culloden
over the soggy moors aslant, each cap
at the low ebb no new full tide could pardon…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Culloden and After”
in NEW COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2011)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857549607/new-collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #history #Culloden #Jacobites #poem #poetry

8/10
CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR
a play in one act
J.A. Ferguson

Written on the eve of WW1, & set in the bloody aftermath of Culloden, CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR revolves around themes of loyalty, sacrifice, betrayal, & the use & abuse of State power

Free PDF download from our website:

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/campbell-of-kilmohr/

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #20thcentury #drama

7/10
“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 #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites

6/10
“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof Leith Davis discusses the Lyon in Mourning project findings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-zGX49O0

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #manuscripts

5/10
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong

5/10
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong

5/10
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong

5/10
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong

5/10
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong

4/10
Prof Alan Riach: “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.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18371691.poetry-battle-culloden-signified/

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic

3/10
“The country smelt of blood; reeked of it.”

FLEMINGTON is available as a free ebook from @gutenberg_org

@bookstodon

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55361

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen

2/10
John Buchan called FLEMINGTON—Violet Jacob’s novel of the 1745 rising & its aftermath, published in 1911—“the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”. It’s included on The List magazine’s Best 100 Scottish Books

https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen

The battle of Culloden – the last pitched battle fought on British soil – took place 280 years ago #OTD, 16 April 1746. A major turning point in Scottish, British, European & indeed world history, it has, unsurprisingly, left a significant imprint in the literature & culture of Scotland. A 🧵

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https://www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/9514/

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites

307 years ago today. Spanish marines landed in Loch Duich on 13 April 1719 and took control of Eilean Donan Castle as part of a little-known and short-lived Jacobite uprising. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dornie/eileandonancastle/index.html

#Scotland #EileanDonanCastle #Lochalsh #LochDuich #Jacobites #1719

Nikki Sudden died twenty years ago today.

This was a big one for me because he'd performed live on my WFMU radio program just days before he passed. The events of that night are presumably the last studio recordings he ever made, and so obviously remain very close to my heart.

I was a huge Nikki fan and always went out of my way to see him perform when he'd hit NYC. Even then, his gigs felt like an alien visitation from some other dimension -- he was a classic rock and roller with a seminal artpunk past. A considerable departure from the hipster posing and faux-No-Wave culture that was gathering steam in early aughts NYC. His gigs weren't the type you'd show up to dressed in a hoodie and jeans -- something about his presence signaled that dressing sharply was the expectation, and for (single, mid 30ish) me that meant anything from my black velvet suit jacket to a pair of red leather John Fluevog kicks. A little embarrassing upon review many years later, but these sartorial choices seemed spot-on in the moment.

I was unusually nervous the night he performed live on my show. I'd had plenty of revered bands down for FMU sessions by 2006, but Nikki accepting my invitation felt different. He was a bona fide legend! I did my best to bottle up the gushing fanboy routine, and his initial skeptical glances at me through the studio glass softened as the night progressed. By 11 PM, we were sharing a bottle of champagne, laughing, and discussing plans for him to return to the station on his next stateside visit. Before he left, he signed my copy of "The Bible Belt", his solo LP from 1983.

And a few days later, he was gone.

RIP Nikki Sudden. Art punk terrorist in the Swell Maps, Bolan/Bowie refugee in the Jacobites, and prolific solo troubadour who played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of art and life’s various tragedies.

https://youtu.be/PIedwhWhzPs

#nikkisudden #swellmaps #postpunk #jacobites #staybruised #wfmu

Nikki Sudden died twenty years ago today.

This was a big one for me because he'd performed live on my WFMU radio program just days before he passed. The events of that night are presumably the last studio recordings he ever made, and so obviously remain very close to my heart.

I was a huge Nikki fan and always went out of my way to see him perform when he'd hit NYC. Even then, his gigs felt like an alien visitation from some other dimension -- he was a classic rock and roller with a seminal artpunk past. A considerable departure from the hipster posing and faux-No-Wave culture that was gathering steam in early aughts NYC. His gigs weren't the type you'd show up to dressed in a hoodie and jeans -- something about his presence signaled that dressing sharply was the expectation, and for (single, mid 30ish) me that meant anything from my black velvet suit jacket to a pair of red leather John Fluevog kicks. A little embarrassing upon review many years later, but these sartorial choices seemed spot-on in the moment.

I was unusually nervous the night he performed live on my show. I'd had plenty of revered bands down for FMU sessions by 2006, but Nikki accepting my invitation felt different. He was a bona fide legend! I did my best to bottle up the gushing fanboy routine, and his initial skeptical glances at me through the studio glass softened as the night progressed. By 11 PM, we were sharing a bottle of champagne, laughing, and discussing plans for him to return to the station on his next stateside visit. Before he left, he signed my copy of "The Bible Belt", his solo LP from 1983.

And a few days later, he was gone.

RIP Nikki Sudden. Art punk terrorist in the Swell Maps, Bolan/Bowie refugee in the Jacobites, and prolific solo troubadour who played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of art and life’s various tragedies.

https://youtu.be/PIedwhWhzPs

#nikkisudden #swellmaps #postpunk #jacobites #staybruised #wfmu

Nikki Sudden died twenty years ago today.

This was a big one for me because he'd performed live on my WFMU radio program just days before he passed. The events of that night are presumably the last studio recordings he ever made, and so obviously remain very close to my heart.

I was a huge Nikki fan and always went out of my way to see him perform when he'd hit NYC. Even then, his gigs felt like an alien visitation from some other dimension -- he was a classic rock and roller with a seminal artpunk past. A considerable departure from the hipster posing and faux-No-Wave culture that was gathering steam in early aughts NYC. His gigs weren't the type you'd show up to dressed in a hoodie and jeans -- something about his presence signaled that dressing sharply was the expectation, and for (single, mid 30ish) me that meant anything from my black velvet suit jacket to a pair of red leather John Fluevog kicks. A little embarrassing upon review many years later, but these sartorial choices seemed spot-on in the moment.

I was unusually nervous the night he performed live on my show. I'd had plenty of revered bands down for FMU sessions by 2006, but Nikki accepting my invitation felt different. He was a bona fide legend! I did my best to bottle up the gushing fanboy routine, and his initial skeptical glances at me through the studio glass softened as the night progressed. By 11 PM, we were sharing a bottle of champagne, laughing, and discussing plans for him to return to the station on his next stateside visit. Before he left, he signed my copy of "The Bible Belt", his solo LP from 1983.

And a few days later, he was gone.

RIP Nikki Sudden. Art punk terrorist in the Swell Maps, Bolan/Bowie refugee in the Jacobites, and prolific solo troubadour who played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of art and life’s various tragedies.

https://youtu.be/PIedwhWhzPs

#nikkisudden #swellmaps #postpunk #jacobites #staybruised #wfmu

Nikki Sudden died twenty years ago today.

This was a big one for me because he'd performed live on my WFMU radio program just days before he passed. The events of that night are presumably the last studio recordings he ever made, and so obviously remain very close to my heart.

I was a huge Nikki fan and always went out of my way to see him perform when he'd hit NYC. Even then, his gigs felt like an alien visitation from some other dimension -- he was a classic rock and roller with a seminal artpunk past. A considerable departure from the hipster posing and faux-No-Wave culture that was gathering steam in early aughts NYC. His gigs weren't the type you'd show up to dressed in a hoodie and jeans -- something about his presence signaled that dressing sharply was the expectation, and for (single, mid 30ish) me that meant anything from my black velvet suit jacket to a pair of red leather John Fluevog kicks. A little embarrassing upon review many years later, but these sartorial choices seemed spot-on in the moment.

I was unusually nervous the night he performed live on my show. I'd had plenty of revered bands down for FMU sessions by 2006, but Nikki accepting my invitation felt different. He was a bona fide legend! I did my best to bottle up the gushing fanboy routine, and his initial skeptical glances at me through the studio glass softened as the night progressed. By 11 PM, we were sharing a bottle of champagne, laughing, and discussing plans for him to return to the station on his next stateside visit. Before he left, he signed my copy of "The Bible Belt", his solo LP from 1983.

And a few days later, he was gone.

RIP Nikki Sudden. Art punk terrorist in the Swell Maps, Bolan/Bowie refugee in the Jacobites, and prolific solo troubadour who played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of art and life’s various tragedies.

https://youtu.be/PIedwhWhzPs

#nikkisudden #swellmaps #postpunk #jacobites #staybruised #wfmu

Nikki Sudden died twenty years ago today.

This was a big one for me because he'd performed live on my WFMU radio program just days before he passed. The events of that night are presumably the last studio recordings he ever made, and so obviously remain very close to my heart.

I was a huge Nikki fan and always went out of my way to see him perform when he'd hit NYC. Even then, his gigs felt like an alien visitation from some other dimension -- he was a classic rock and roller with a seminal artpunk past. A considerable departure from the hipster posing and faux-No-Wave culture that was gathering steam in early aughts NYC. His gigs weren't the type you'd show up to dressed in a hoodie and jeans -- something about his presence signaled that dressing sharply was the expectation, and for (single, mid 30ish) me that meant anything from my black velvet suit jacket to a pair of red leather John Fluevog kicks. A little embarrassing upon review many years later, but these sartorial choices seemed spot-on in the moment.

I was unusually nervous the night he performed live on my show. I'd had plenty of revered bands down for FMU sessions by 2006, but Nikki accepting my invitation felt different. He was a bona fide legend! I did my best to bottle up the gushing fanboy routine, and his initial skeptical glances at me through the studio glass softened as the night progressed. By 11 PM, we were sharing a bottle of champagne, laughing, and discussing plans for him to return to the station on his next stateside visit. Before he left, he signed my copy of "The Bible Belt", his solo LP from 1983.

And a few days later, he was gone.

RIP Nikki Sudden. Art punk terrorist in the Swell Maps, Bolan/Bowie refugee in the Jacobites, and prolific solo troubadour who played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of art and life’s various tragedies.

https://youtu.be/PIedwhWhzPs

#nikkisudden #swellmaps #postpunk #jacobites #staybruised #wfmu

“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”

—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment

🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day! A 🎶🧵

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #18thcentury #satire #Jacobites

‘“Johnnie Cope” […] is the Highlanders’ war clarion, the tune that is played before battle, the wild music that is supposed to quicken the blood of the mountain man and freeze the foe in his tracks…’

—George MacDonald Fraser, “Johnnie Cope in the morning”, in McAuslan in the Rough, 1974

Hear it played by the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIbaQOj4T60

#Scottish #literature #bagpipes #music #song #Jacobites #18thcentury

The Battle of Prestonpans was fought #OTD, 21 September 1745. The first major engagement in the Jacobite rebellion, Prestonpans was a stunning victory for the (mostly Highland) troops under Charles Edward Stuart. The song “Johnnie Cope”, composed very shortly afterwards, probably by Adam Skirving, exists in numerous versions & arrangements – including one by Beethoven – but it is originally a pipe tune.

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#Scottish #literature #bagpipes #music #song #Jacobites #18thcentury

John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & the List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time

3/8

https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911

#Scottish #literature #historicalfiction #romanticism #Jacobites #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & the List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time

3/8

https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911

#Scottish #literature #historicalfiction #romanticism #Jacobites #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & the List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time

3/8

https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911

#Scottish #literature #historicalfiction #romanticism #Jacobites #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & the List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time

3/8

https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911

#Scottish #literature #historicalfiction #romanticism #Jacobites #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & the List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time

3/8

https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911

#Scottish #literature #historicalfiction #romanticism #Jacobites #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

Queerness in Scotland has always existed, hidden in medieval manuscripts, coded in Jacobite poetry, or expressed through the arts. In the first of a 3-part series, the National Galleries of Scotland explores queer artforms & artists from Scotland, past & present

#Pride #PrideDay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBCxUmPBho

#Scottish #literature #poetry #art #manuscripts #medieval #18thcentury #history #jacobites #queerhistory #queerness #Pride #PrideDay #InternationalPrideDay #LGBTQ

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”

@bookstodon

FLEMINGTON is available free on @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55361

#Scottish #literature #history #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen

“As a patterned textile, [tartan] features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic.”

—Ellen R. Beard, “When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song”

4/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/when-tartan-was-not-fake-the-disclothing-act-in-gaelic-song/

#Scottish #literature #culture #history #18thcentury #tartan #TartanDay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #song #Jacobites

🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day!

Why to St. Paul’s, my Dear? What make you chuse
A Church that Jacobites and Papists use,
Where English Mass is lyrick’d o’er by Boys,
And Popish Bagpipes make a hideous Noise?

—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

#Scottish #literature #culture #18thcentury #jacobites #satire #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay

Bruce, Burns, & the Jacobites!
16 Jan, Stirling – tickets by donation

Join Dr Murray Cooke as he explores the interplay between Bruce, Burns & the Jacobites – iconic figures within Scotland’s history. Where do they connect & what are the influences at play?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bruce-burns-and-the-jacobites-tickets-1091161355989

#Scottish #literature #history #RoberttheBruce #RobertBurns #JacobiteStudies #Jacobites #culturalstudies

Bruce, Burns, & the Jacobites!
16 Jan, Stirling – tickets by donation

Join Dr Murray Cooke as he explores the interplay between Bruce, Burns & the Jacobites – iconic figures within Scotland’s history. Where do they connect & what are the influences at play?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bruce-burns-and-the-jacobites-tickets-1091161355989

#Scottish #literature #history #RoberttheBruce #RobertBurns #JacobiteStudies #Jacobites #culturalstudies

Bruce, Burns, & the Jacobites!
16 Jan, Stirling – tickets by donation

Join Dr Murray Cooke as he explores the interplay between Bruce, Burns & the Jacobites – iconic figures within Scotland’s history. Where do they connect & what are the influences at play?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bruce-burns-and-the-jacobites-tickets-1091161355989

#Scottish #literature #history #RoberttheBruce #RobertBurns #JacobiteStudies #Jacobites #culturalstudies

Bruce, Burns, & the Jacobites!
16 Jan, Stirling – tickets by donation

Join Dr Murray Cooke as he explores the interplay between Bruce, Burns & the Jacobites – iconic figures within Scotland’s history. Where do they connect & what are the influences at play?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bruce-burns-and-the-jacobites-tickets-1091161355989

#Scottish #literature #history #RoberttheBruce #RobertBurns #JacobiteStudies #Jacobites #culturalstudies

Bruce, Burns, & the Jacobites!
16 Jan, Stirling – tickets by donation

Join Dr Murray Cooke as he explores the interplay between Bruce, Burns & the Jacobites – iconic figures within Scotland’s history. Where do they connect & what are the influences at play?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bruce-burns-and-the-jacobites-tickets-1091161355989

#Scottish #literature #history #RoberttheBruce #RobertBurns #JacobiteStudies #Jacobites #culturalstudies

The superbly remote Loch Arkaig in Lochaber, said to be the hiding place of a hoard of gold coins landed by the French at Loch nan Uamh in late April 1746 in support of the (by then already failed) Jacobite rising. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/speanbridge/locharkaig/index.html

#Scotland #LochArkaig #Lochaber #Jacobites #Gold #UndiscoveredScotland

The ruins of the Jacobite-era Bernera Barracks near Glenelg. Built between 1719 and 1723, they were intended to guard what was at the time the main route to and from the Isle of Skye. The barracks were abandoned by the military in 1797. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenelg/bernerabarracks/index.html

#Scotland #BerneraBarracks #Glenelg #Jacobites #Lochalsh #UndiscoveredScotland

Jacobite references in Cupar Presbytery minutes of 1716 https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/jacobite-references-in-cupar-presbytery-minutes-of-1716/ #ScottishHistory #History #Scotland #Fife #Jacobites #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #ChurchCourts #ChurchOfScotland #Cupar #Kettle #Falkland #Logie

Continuing my browse through Cupar Presbytery records, trying to distract myself from the quite horrific crime recorded in 1745. Pleased to be finding Jacobite references in 1716. Reports of local Fife Jacobites. As well as women scandalously dancing late at night with the "highland men" / "Rebels". #Jacobites #Scotland #Fife #ScottishHistory #History #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #ChurchOfScotland #ChurchCourts #Crime

The "Seven Men of Moidart" is a Jacobite memorial to seven companions who landed with Bonnie Prince Charlie on this day 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

279 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

305 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

305 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

305 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

305 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

305 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

An unlikely home for a King of France: the thread about the Palace of Holyroodhouse

This thread was originally written and published in September 2022.

Given that the Palace of Holyroodhouse was getting more attention than it is used to in the week that this thread was first written, it seemed like a good idea to take a brief delve into its history of royal residents and one who is highly remarkable but far less well remembered than others.

The palace is well known to be the official residence of the British Monarch in Scotland, but that’s a role that it has only held for just over 100 years, with King George V conferring the status upon it in 1922. It’s also well known that it long served as a royal residence for the Scottish monarchy going back to medieval times, with this situation ending in 1603 when King James VI left it, Edinburgh and Scotland for London and the English throne. James was the palace’s longest term royal resident, being principally based there from his coming of age in 1579 until he left 24 years later. He had promised to return to Edinburgh every 3 years, but did not keep his word and would not return until 1617 (and then after that, never again). There is therefore a period of four centuries to be accounted for between James’ departure and George’s designation.

After James, Royal visits were infrequent. Charles I stayed here when he came to Edinburgh in 1633 for his showpiece Scottish coronation, the façade being remodelled in his honour. He returned to the palace in the turbulent year of 1641, and in 1646, conferred it to one of his principal Scottish supporters; James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton. The hereditary role of Keeper of the palace is one that the Dukes of Hamilton hold hold to this day. It was badly damaged in 1650 by the occupying troops of Oliver Cromwell after their defeat of the Scottish Army at Dunbar. The picture below shows the palace at it was in 1649 following the remodelling for Charles.

After the Restoration in 1660, repairs were made to the palace to allow it to be occupied by Charles II as required and to be a meeting place for his Scottish Privy Council. It was reconstructed between 1670-79 by and it is rumoured that funds and materials for this project were diverted towards the construction of Royston House. The King however did not intend to reside there himself, rather it was to be a seat of his power by proxy in the country, the seat of not just the Privy Council but also the residence of the Lord High Commissioner for Scotland. In 1679, this was James, Duke of Albany, the future King James VII (II of England). His daughter Anne, the future Queen Anne, was also resident with him. When James ascended to the throne in 1685, he set up a Jesuit college in the grounds. The following year he had the Protestant congregation that was worshipping in the Holyrood Abbey Kirk evicted and converted that building to a ceremonial Chapel Royal for his newly created Order of the Thistle. Both of these acts provoked outrage amongst the Edinburgh mob and in 1688 they would destroy the college and desecrate the chapel and its tombs following William of Orange’s taking of the throne.

Following the abolition of the separate Scottish Privy Council on the Act of Union in 1707, the primary function of the palace as a centre of government ceased to be and it was increasingly turned over to grace-and-favour use by the Scottish nobility. This was interrupted briefly by a royal visit in 1745 when a certain man with claim to being a future King Charles III paid an uninvited visit – Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Jacobite excitement aside, for the next 100 or so years, British monarchs were uninterested in what was an increasingly decrepit old building in a bad neighbourhood in town; hemmed in on 2 sides by the increasingly undesirable tenements of the Canongate, on another by an irrigated meadow for the settling of sewage as fertiliser and all around by brewing on an industrial scale. It was not until 1822 that a reigning British monarch would visit, the first since Charles I in 1641; King George IV lodged in the far more comfortable surroundings of Dalkeith Palace, but was given a tour of the ancient seat of Royalty and held a reception there. The Palace would not begin to be rehabilitated until the reign of Queen Victoria, its resident nobility being slowly turfed out and it was gradually repaired, restored and improved. But no monarch or senior royal has made Holyrood a permanent home since James VI left over 420 years ago…

Or have they? When I say “no monarch or senior royal” I mean of the British royal family, because you may be surprised to learn that the palace’s 2nd longest royal resident was none other than Charles Philippe, Comte d’Artois, younger brother of King Louis XVI and later King Charles X of France! This future monarch would spend 7 years at Holyrood from 1796 to 1803 with his mistress, Louise de Polastron, following his flight from the French Revolution. When he arrived in Edinburgh, reputedly half the city turned out to welcome him, despite his wish for a low-key reception. He would find Holyrood’s legal status as a debtor’s sanctuary particularly suited to his lifestyle choices.

Nearly thirty years later, he would return to Holyrood as the recently deposed King Charles X following the Second French Revolution, arriving in 1830 and staying this time for two years. He lived with his young grandson, Henri d’Artois, Count of Chambord and Duke of Bordeaux, who had very briefly spend a few days on the French throne as the last Bourbon king. Charles’ son Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême and his wife Marie-Thérèse (who, as daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette was also Charles’ niece) also fled the wrath of the French republic and made their home in town, staying at 21 Regent Terrace (now 22), overlooking the palace. Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchess de Berry and sister-in-law of Louis-Antoine, lived a few doors down at number 11 (now 12) at this time.

While Edinburgh provided a safe retreat for the French royals, they reputedly found the Scots “tiresome and odd.” They kept themselves distant from their host city, snubbed offers from its institutions and despaired at the prevalence of Sabbatarianism. In turn were an object of fascination for the locals and the Scottish nobility were “astonished” by their “gastronomic powers“. City caricaturist John Kay captured Charles in 1796, walking hand in arm with Lord Adam Gordon, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

Charles and his family left Edinburgh for Austria on September 18th 1832, his departure being a public spectacle, as the young Henri in particular was a favourite in the city. The Scotsman reported that “white gloves, white ribbons and white favours of various kinds were worn by a large proportion of the people assembled.” Many white flags can be seen in the illustration below also, these were not a symbol of surrender, but the flag of the Bourbon restoration. The departure was from the Trinity Chain Pier on the 9AM steamer , the SS United Kingdom, from Newhaven to Hamburg, which is what can be seen in the background of the painting.

Charles was now gone for good, but did leave one lasting mark upon the city from his residency. Disliking the attention he attracted from locals wherever we went, he had William Playfair include a convenient gated path through Regent Gardens to allow him to walk unmolested to hear Mass at St. Mary’s Chapel (now St. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral) at Picardy Place. Whether that story is apocryphal or not, there are indeed gates at both the north and south end of the western boundary of Regent Gardens and pleasant paths laid out between the two.

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278 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

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