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 ...

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

The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in ... After the failure of the 1715 rising, the death of Louis XIV and the Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and France, James was obliged to ...

Dunnottar Castle in Scotland played a key role in the country's history before it began to fall into ruin in the 1720s after ...

Members initially met at Abbott Lodge Farm, south of Clifton, where troops were known to have assembled and a 4kg cannonball from the conflict was discovered, before heading to Brougham Hall where a ...

Leith Davis focuses on five pivotal episodes in the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland: the 1688 'Glorious' Revolution; the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688-91); the Scottish colonial ...

In 1715, there was an attempted rising by Jacobites against the Hanoverian ... Popular support for the Jacobite movement increased due to growing Jacobite culture - poems, songs and fiddle tunes ...

A castle, that now lies in ruins, was once used to hide the country's crown jewels from an invading English army ...