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www.historyscotland.com Volume 19, Number 4 July/August

THE ROBERTSONS OF ALVIE: A NOTE FROM AUSTRALIA

Malcolm Robertson writes from Canberra, Australia, in response to our recent two-part article on the Robertson brothers of Alvie

Unmasked: revealing a new portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie

Unmasked: revealing a new portrait of Bonnie Prince

Medieval burgh records inspire video game design

Aberdeen’s UNESCO-recognised medieval records could provide the inspiration for video games that will bring people face-to-face with life in the middle ages

RARE VESTMENTS BELONGING TO MEMBER OF ROYAL STUART DYNASTY ON DISPLAY AT BLAIRS MUSEUM

A set of vestments belonging to Henry Benedict Stuart, the youngest son of James Frances Edward Stuart and brother of Charles Edward Stuart, are to be displayed at Blairs Museum this year

400 HIGHLAND ESTATE MAPS digitised and made available online

A collection of 400 historic maps relating to the Lovat Highland Estates, covering extensive areas west of Inverness, are now available to researchers, thanks to a project involving Lovat highland estates (based in Beauly), the North of Scotland Archaeological Society and National Library of Scotland

Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland

Dr Patrick Watt provides an in-depth review of the National Museum of Scotland’s new exhibition that considers changing views of the tartan and bagpipes so beloved of modern-day global audiences

An earthquake in the kirk

David McVey charts a ten-year conflict in the church of Scotland that resulted in a catastrophic split whose key proponents included the scientist Sir James Young Simpson and geologist Hugh Miller

From Portlethen to Paris: James Duncan at the 1919 Paris peace conference

Neil McLennan offers a new assessment of the life and legacy of James Duncan, a little-known Scot who was a delegate at the Paris peace conference

DRAMA, DESTINY AND DETERMINATION at Douneside House

Janice Hopper visits a house in rural Aberdeenshire that was the home of a remarkable woman who turned tragedy into triumph through her long standing association with the RAF

UNCOVERING SECRETS FROM THE PAST AT UPPER GAIRLOCH

A new community archaeology project is exploring an abandoned site close to the river Dee which was once a thriving agricultural community

THE FIRST FORESTERS

Matt Ritchie takes us behind the scenes on a new project that links our ancient wildwood with Neolithic pioneers, providing teachers and archaeological educators with a means of sharing the past with a young audience

Your summer of archaeology

There are lots of ways to get involved in archaeology over the coming months, whether volunteering at a dig or supporting an event, as our round-up guide reveals

CAPTAIN ROBERT PINCARTON Darien survivor, convicted pirate and unsung hero

Few people emerged from the disaster of the Darien scheme (1698-1700) covered in glory, but among the survivors was the indomitable figure of Captain Robert Pincarton, a man whose skill, bravery and fortitude arguably make him the closest thing Darien ever produced to a national hero. Dr Julie Orr reconstructs Pincarton’s remarkable story

The politics of population

Understanding Scottish emigration in a post-war, post-imperial context

Michael Davitt’s second highland tour, April 1887

Dr Brian Casey explores the visit to the highlands of the Irish radical Michael Davitt, and traces the way his internationalised, pan-Celtic interpretation of the ‘land question’ helped alert Scottish radicals how crofters’ rights could be used to agitate for more general social and political reform

THE STEWART QUEENS OF SCOTLAND, 1371-1513: PART 6 MARGARET TUDOR: AN ENGLISH QUEEN

In the concluding instalment of her major series, Dr Amy Hayes explores the life of Margaret Tudor, the controversial wife of James IV and a woman whose turbulent career as a dowager has both earned her a poor reputation and overshadowed her years as consort

SCOTLAND’S COLONY OF NOVA SCOTIA

History Scotland’s consultant editor, Dr Allan Kennedy, looks at the doomed Scottish effort to settle Nova Scotia in the 1620s

In the next issue of history SCOTLAND

Vol 19.5 Sep/Oct 2019 On sale: 10 Aug 2019

THE HARRY LAUDER MILLION POUND FUND

Archivist Veronica Schreuder introduces records relating to a fund established by Sir Harry Lauder

A study of Scotland’s ghosts

Allan Kennedy enjoys an examination of Scotland’s supernatural reputation, in what is the first academic study of the history of Scottish ghosts

Past Lives of Leith

A new exhibition at Museum of Edinburgh explores the results of the largest excavation of a medieval graveyard undertaken in Edinburgh

OLDHAMSTOCKS FAIR

A look at Alexander Carses’s delightfully-detailed painting of an 18th-century country fair, a rural custom that even at the time of its depiction was on the brink of extinction

Stranraer & District Local History Trust

Established in 1998, Stranraer & District Local

ADDRESSES AGAINST UNION

Annie Tindley introduces a volume that highlights local opinions and feelings as revealed through an 18th-century petitioning campaign that called upon parliament to heed the ‘mind of the nation’

FINAL WORD

Gordon Morrison, CEO of the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions, talks to History Scotland about the changing face of tourism