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CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR
a play in one act
J.A. Ferguson
Written on the eve of WW1, & set in the bloody aftermath of Culloden, CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR revolves around themes of loyalty, sacrifice, betrayal, & the use & abuse of State power
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/campbell-of-kilmohr/
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“The view of the Jacobites as quasi-colonial primitives is persistent […] In the Year of the Prince, the last centrally Scottish army mounted serious military opposition to the British government. The seriousness of Jacobitism is ignored because the power of the threat undermines the story of British unity.”
—Prof Murray Pittock on “Whig History” & Culloden
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/11/jacobitism-in-history/
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In the last thirty years, a good deal of new scholarship has been published on the Jacobite movement. In England in the 1970s and 1980s, Eveline Cruickshanks published a large amount of fresh evidence concerning the double game being played by Tory MPs in the eighteenth century (e.g. in the History of Parliament volumes and Political […]
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“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland, contains conversations, narratives, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 rising. From 2023: Prof Leith Davis discusses the Lyon in Mourning project findings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-zGX49O0
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In “Highland Songs of the ’45”, the National Trust for Scotland shares original audio recordings of Gaelic songs collected by archivist John Lorne Campbell from Canna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI
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Prof Alan Riach: “The representation in Gaelic literature of Culloden […] makes a study of that literature, even in translation, a vital corrective to that of more exclusively English or Scottish literature in Scots & English.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18371691.poetry-battle-culloden-signified/
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“The country smelt of blood; reeked of it.”
FLEMINGTON is available as a free ebook from @gutenberg_org
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55361
#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen
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John Buchan called FLEMINGTON—Violet Jacob’s novel of the 1745 rising & its aftermath, published in 1911—“the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”. It’s included on The List magazine’s Best 100 Scottish Books
https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911
#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen
The battle of Culloden – the last pitched battle fought on British soil – took place 280 years ago #OTD, 16 April 1746. A major turning point in Scottish, British, European & indeed world history, it has, unsurprisingly, left a significant imprint in the literature & culture of Scotland. A 🧵
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