In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII;...

New account of the Jacobite rising of 1715 published for its 300th anniversary. The most comprehensive study of the battle of Sheriffmuir ever written, throwing new light on how it was fought and including important eyewitness accounts....

Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion and Scottish National Dress is recognised around the world. This book reveals the origin and development of tartans and Scottish national costume. Beginning as Highland dress, it...

"Like Hungry Wolves: Culloden Moor 16 April 1746" von Stuart Reid ist ein detailliertes historisches Sachbuch, das die Schlacht von Culloden im Jahr 1746 schildert. Diese Schlacht war der letzte Versuch der Jakobiten, den britischen...

The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were awarded a unique badge - a figure of a Sphinx - to...