The Earl of Mar and other Jacobite leaders played a significant role in generating support for the rising of 1715. Mar organised a gathering of Jacobite clans at Braemar and told them of the ...

An attempted rising in 1708 had been unsuccessful which ... Popular support for the Jacobite movement increased due to growing Jacobite culture - poems, songs and fiddle tunes persuaded many ...

Dunnottar Castle in Aberdeenshire was once a thriving fortress and Royal residence, but it fell into ruin after its owner became involved in the Jacobite rebellion ...

The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. Charles Edward Stuart believed the British throne was his birthright and planned to invade with his Jacobite followers and ...

In the years after the Jacobite rebellion, a government body called the Commissioners for the Forfeited Estates met and wanted to know what lands they now administered. The oldest of the maps in ...

There, she falls in love with a Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser and gets involved in The Jacobite Rising of 1745. The show is based on a book series of the same name. Trussville family’s ...

John Nicholls, who is the honourary life president of The Fifteen (The Northumbrian Jacobite Society) which is dedicated to the first rising in 1715, said they were “a kind of sister society now ...