Blood Of My Blood begins “on the eve of an earlier Jacobite rebellion.” In 1714, Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian ...

The Starz series will tell the epic love story of Jamie Fraser's parents, Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie and Claire's parents, Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp.

But the normal way to discuss the Jacobites is to portray them as a political anachronism, royal absolutists backing a Catholic king in a Protestant and liberalizing Britain, whose rebellion ...

Montrose in Angus became pivotal to events in the 1745 Jacobite rising given the deep harbour and pool of men ready to lend their support to Prince Charles Edward Stuart. All Sections.

But the normal way to discuss the Jacobites is to portray them as a political anachronism, royal absolutists backing a Catholic king in a Protestant and liberalizing Britain, whose rebellion ...

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the book more than a century after the Jacobite rising, after it was safe in Britain to attach some romance to the Highlanders’ rebellion and culture.

Like many Scotsmen, he had not “come out” for the prince in the rebellion of 1745, in which a Jacobite army had mustered under the Stuart royal standard, entered Edinburgh and gone on to ...