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Amanda Moffet
Titanic's secret saviour - the Countess of Rothes
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On the night that the Titanic sank, one woman, the Countess of Rothes, put the welfare of others before her own, working tirelessly to row them to safety. Angela Young tells her great-grandmother’s in...
Topics: Titanic
Nadine Lee
Braveheart Impersonator Charged With Firearms Offences
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Adam Watters – Braveheart Impersonator. Photo courtesy of Deadline News A Braveheart impersonator has been charged with firearms offences after police received a complaint about “a man with a blue fac...
Topics: braveheart, edinburgh, Jacobite, Police, William Wallace
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Rodger Moffet
Culloden Moor Housing Development and our Ancestral Her...
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As dusk fell over Culloden Moor on the 16th April 1746 the last major land battle to be fought on British soil had drawn to a conclusion. With close to 2,000 dead and wounded Jacobites the campaign...
Nadine Lee
The Massacre of Glencoe
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Today marks the 321st anniversary of the Massacre of Glencoe, in which 38 MacDonald of Glencoe clansmen were murdered on direct orders from the crown. The death warrant signed by King William III prov...
Topics: Campbell, glencoe, Jacobite, MacDonald, Massacre of Glencoe, Scottish Socialist Republican Movement, William III
Nadine Lee
An Unlikely Jacobite Hero
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  A number of molehills have sprung up across the battlefield site at Culloden, much to the delight of a Jacobite supporters group. The Circle of Gentlemen – a Highland based Jacobite supporters socie...
Topics: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Circle of Gentlemen, Culloden, Jacobite, molehills, William III
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