Shadows in the heather
A story line from the 1719 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland.
A story line from the 1719 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland.
I’m falling into the trap of writing about kings and empires when I started to explore trade and emigration but I’ll get back to it. The trouble is that, the Stuart’s attempts to recover the […]
Stories from the 1715 Stuart adventure.
The forerunner of the Glencoe massacre.
A brief look at the Darien adventure of the ordinary Scots.
A good story from the Stuart times and the Act of Union
Conventicles and their suppression
Writing about James V1 and !st naturally leads to thinking of the civil war. It’s labelled an English affair but, in fact, it involved the whole of Great Britain. The Royalists were winning until the […]
Some hints of the story ideas in Scotts’ Tales of a Grandfather.
The British are3 a nation of immigrants, including the Bruces of Scotland