An unequal contest?
In the second part of our series, Graham Goodlad reviews the organisation, tactics, and weaponry of the two armies.
Jacobite Risings
The Jacobite Wars
In the first part of our new series, Graham Goodlad explores the Jacobite movement’s early attempts to overthrow Britain’s ruling Protestant monarchy.
Road to Culloden
Onwards and upwards a timeline tracing the developing fortunes and many incarnations of America's air force in the 2oth century.
18th-century clan portraits go on show in the National Museum of Scotland
The oil paintings are the work of Scottish painter Richard Waitt (d.1732), and were commissioned in 1713 by Alexander, the Laird of Grant.
Review: Fort George
Open 9.30am-5.30pm daily (April to September) and 10am-4pm daily (October to March)Ardersier, Inverness, IV2 7TDwww.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/fort-george/+44 (0) 1667 462 834 Fort George is an imposing reminder of a turbulent period in British history. Its commanding position on the Moray Firth in…
The ‘bluidy’ battle of Killiecrankie: excavating the first Jacobite Rising
What can archaeological surveys of battlefields add to historical accounts of the fighting? Road improvements at Killiecrankie provided an opportunity to see how traces of fighting tallied with a commanding officer’s account of the clash, as Maureen Kilpatrick and Warren Bailie report.
The Jacobite Risings
Jeremy Black analyses the military and political significance of the Jacobite Risings that punctuated British history between 1689 and 1746.
Prestonpans, 1745: the forgotten Jacobite victory
Overshadowed by Culloden the following year – the battle that finally terminated the century-old Jacobite cause – Prestonpans is little known. Chris Bambery researches the story.