Nov 11, 2011
Drawing of Edward Waverleyfrom Sir Walter Scott’sWaverley books. The Jacobite rising of 1745 was one of the last in a series of rebellions aimed at returning the descendants of the House of Stuart to the throne. Although for a while Charles Edward Stuart...
Nov 9, 2011
The Paradox of Medieval Scotland database explores the social relationships and identities before the Wars of Independence.The “paradox” refers to Rees Davies’ observation of Scotland that, “paradoxically, the most extensively English-settled and Anglicised part of...
Oct 28, 2011
A search of Connected Histories for the word ‘Halloween’ produces only 13 results for the whole period 1500-1900. Similarly there are only 15 mentions of ‘All Hallows Eve” – with all of these simply referring to it as a date (for example...
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