Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

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Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) is one of the most recognisable and romanticised figures of British history. Born in Rome as a Catholic prince on 31 December 1720, he led the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which came closer than anyone expected to changing Great Britain irrevocably. 

Professor Pittock will ask what kind of man was Charles, what were his ideas and day to day life like, what might have happened if he had won in 1745, and what even in defeat his legacy changed for Britain and its Empire.

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This event was on Mon, 02 Nov 2020

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Professor Murray Pittock

Murray is Scottish History Adviser and a board member of the National Trust for Scotland and holds the Bradley Chair of English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

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