by Sarah Fraser | Apr 25, 2017 | The Last Highlander
the shadow of culloden part 2. the fate of fraser prisoners ← Shadow of Culloden Part 1 Talk at Culloden → “Pursue and Hunt these Vermin amongst their lurking hills” – the Duke of Cumberland In the months after Culloden, the ordinary...
by Sarah Fraser | Apr 24, 2017 | The Last Highlander
Shadow of culloden part 1. the fate of the fraser lands ← Death of a Highland Chief The Shadow of Culloden Part 2 → “Destroy all the Rebels you find there” – Cumberland. What strikes me when I hear and read about the aftermath of...
by Sarah Fraser | Apr 7, 2017 | The Last Highlander
Highlands. the death of a highland chief ← The Old Fox Shadow of Culloden Part 1 → 9th April 1747. His execution was a public holiday. Tens of thousands crowded onto Tower Hill for the entertainment. The prisoner in the Tower of London raged at his...
by Sarah Fraser | Mar 31, 2017 | The Last Highlander
Lovat of the 45, the old fox, scotland's most notorious clan chief, rebel and double agent ← The Game of Kings Death of a Highland Chief → Simon Fraser, 11th lord lovat ‘last and greatest of the old-style scottish chiefs’ Like an old...
by Sarah Fraser | Mar 31, 2017 | The Stuarts
1603-1745 rebellions, revolutions, breakthroughs & breakdowns, the glamour and horror of the game of kings ← Meet the Stuarts The Old Fox → The British Royal House of Stuart: 150 Years of Transformation ‘All political lives … end in failure.’ That has to...