My latest painting of John Graham of Claverhouse, the Viscount Dundee, on the eve of his death at the Battle of Killiecrankie. Supposedly he wore a green sash, which upset his wife Jean, for it was the green of the fairy washerwoman who washes the shrouds of those to die; but he wore it anyway, to show he was fearless.
‘Coming Home’ Mobile Museum visits National Trust Scotland Culloden as part of the ‘Don’t Mention the War; How We Talk About Conflict in Museums’ conference.
“Coming Home” is a travelling exhibition and events programme developed by High Life Highland (HLH) to commemorate the end of the First World War in the Highlands. Poignant individual experiences, explored through the documents, objects and photographs held in High Life Highland museums and archives and partner independent museums, are placed at the heart of the project. These individual narratives reflect the wider social and economic changes in the Highlands at the time.
On 16 April 1746, the final Jacobite Rising came to a brutal head in one of the most harrowing battles in British history.
Jacobite supporters, seeking to restore the Stuart monarchy to the British thrones, gathered to fight the Duke of Cumberland’s government troops. It was the last pitched battle on British soil and, in less than an hour, around 1,500 men were slain – more than 1,000 of them Jacobites.
Recreation of British regulars playing baseball during the 1745 Jacobite rising. Base-ball, a predecessor of rounders, was described in John Newbery’s Pretty Little Pocket Book, published in England in 1744.
My character, Mary O’Moore, a naturalist at Blackpowder and Bloodlines LARP in Victoria, Australia. I based my costume on a mix of 16th century English clothing combined with some Jacobite type stuff (look, I was watching a lot of Outlander at the time)! All natural materials (wool and linen), with historical aspects (such as pewter buttons) and hand stitched finishing. Overall it is warm, comfortable, and honestly feels more like clothing than a costume!
