Author: Diana PrestonPublisher: Constable Limited
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Road to Culloden Moor
Author: Diana PrestonPublisher: Constable Limited
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Road to Culloden Moor
Author: Diana PrestonPublisher: Constable Limited
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Culloden
Author: Murray PittockPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191640697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for all this, Culloden is a battle with great significance in British history. It was the last pitched battle on the soil of the British Isles to be fought with regular troops on both sides. It came to stand for the final defeat of the Jacobite cause. And it was the last domestic contestation of the Act of Union of 1707, the resolution of which propelled Great Britain to be the dominant world power for the next 150 years. If the battle itself was short, its aftermath was brutal - with the depredations of the Duke of Cumberland followed by a campaign to suppress the clan system and the Highland way of life. And its afterlife in the centuries since has been a fascinating one, pitting British Whig triumphalism against a growing romantic memorialization of the Jacobite cause. On both sides there has long been a tendency to regard the battle as a dramatic clash, between Highlander and Lowlander, Celt and Saxon, Catholic and Protestant, the old and the new. Yet, as this account of the battle and its long cultural afterlife suggests, while viewing Culloden in such a way might be rhetorically compelling, it is not necessarily good history.
The Ghosts of Culloden Moor, Volume I
Author: L.L. MuirPublisher:
ISBN: 9781540807694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
79 Highlanders arose from their graves the day after the Battle of Culloden Moor. Nearly 300 years later, a young lass hopes to re-write history...Soncerae is a Muir Witch whose destiny is to save these Highland warriors who refuse to leave Culloden's hallowed, forever-bloody ground. She can win back their lives, but only for a time. And in that time, she hopes to prove that a heart's true desire can mean so much more than revenge.
The Road of Destiny
Author: Ellis MiddletonDamn' Rebel Bitches
Author: Maggie CraigPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780572964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Many historians have ignored female participation in the '45: this book aims to redress the balance. Drawn from many original documents and letters, the stories that emerge of the women - and their men - are often touching, occasionally light-hearted and always engrossing.
Guide to the highlands and islands of Scotland, including Orkney and Zetland, by G. and P. Anderson
Author: George Anderson (of Inverness.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Winchelsea
Author: Alex PrestonPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838854851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 A SPECTATOR BEST OF THE YEAR - AS CHOSEN BY REVIEWERS The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. But when she turns sixteen, her father is murdered by men he thought were friends. In a town where lawlessness prevails, Goody and her brother Francis must enter the cut-throat world of her father’s killers in order to find justice. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she discovers what life can be like without constraints or expectations, developing a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast. Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead?
The Boxer Rebellion
Author: Diana PrestonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802713610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Portrays the dramatic human experience of the Boxer Rebellion from both a Western and Chinese perspective, drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters of those who lived through this pivotal time in the history of China.
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