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Personality and Community
Best in Show / Books / Bubbles in the Cauldron / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • January 19, 2021
  • 1 month
Tagged Community Spirit, Era of Personality, Historical story lines, Ordinary heroes, Stuart Monarchs

Personality and Community

Maybe I’m attracted to write about the Stuart’s yachts and small events like the Bombardment of Eilean Donan castle, because I read so much C. S. Forester, who had not only Hornblower, but Brown on […]

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Yachts
Books / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • January 16, 2021
  • 2 months
Tagged Macbeth, Picnics, Sailing, Shakespeare, Short stories

Yachts

I need to get down off my hobby horse of British and make a note about sailing. It is often quoted that Charles II was the father of British Yachting but his yachts had many […]

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British London
Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • January 12, 2021
  • 2 months
Tagged British, British Capital, British Nationality, History, London

British London

I sometimes find that a small incident in my research opens up into a whole spectrum of things. That’s how King James I and VI has affected me. James went to London and several Scots […]

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Democratic Revolution
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • January 10, 2021
  • 2 months
Tagged Democracy, Devolution, History lessons, Marginalised, Scottish Nationalism

Democratic Revolution

One of the causes of revolution is the perception among a group, even a nation, that they are not being heard, that their concerns are not being addressed. That is just as true with the […]

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Spirit of a Story
Books / Bubbles in the Cauldron / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • January 7, 2021
  • 2 months
Tagged Ben Okri, Finding Historical story lines, Historical fiction, Jacobites, Last armed uprising

Spirit of a Story

Characters talking up a story.

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Scotland and the Auld Alliance
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • January 5, 2021
  • 2 months
Tagged Cameronians, European Union, Mary Queen of Scots, Scottish History, Scottish independence

Scotland and the Auld Alliance

I have recently come across reference to Scotland’s Auld Alliance with France. What my researches into the Stuarts have highlighted is that the Auld Alliance was reinvented every time the French were at war with […]

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A Sovereign Address
Character Development / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • January 2, 2021
  • 2 months
Tagged British Sovereignty, Civil war, Downing Street, Historical fiction, Massachusetts

A Sovereign Address

I have often found the throw-away comments in history books to be the some of the most intriguing and The King’s Revenge, by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, proved no exception. The book deals with […]

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Britain. The Wisest Fool in Christendom
Books / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • December 28, 2020
  • 2 months
Tagged British History, Devolution, History, National Identity, Scottish independence

Britain. The Wisest Fool in Christendom

The first, and only, monarch to have been personally involved in propagating the idea of Britain as one nation is the Stuart James VI and I, to put his titles in their chronological order. Over […]

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The sword cut both ways
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • December 19, 2020
  • 2 months
Tagged Bonnie Prince Charlie, Cameronians, Dunkeld, Historical research, Military History

The sword cut both ways

There are four incidents following the replacement of James II with William and Mary that are worth noting. Firstly there is Killiecrankie and the charge of the Highlanders under Dundee. The Highlanders took advantage of […]

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Glorious revolution in Scotland
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • December 15, 2020
  • 3 months
Tagged !689, Bonnie Dundee, Cameronians, Civil war, Edinburgh

Glorious revolution in Scotland

What happened when William and Mary became King and Queen

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