North
Blair Atholl, Highland Perthshire
Blair Castle
At Blair Castle, the Jacobite story runs through the Murray family itself. Close relatives did not always choose the same side.
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Power, Rebellion & Identity
Follow the conflicts, allegiances and pivotal turning points that shaped the nation. From royal strongholds and clan seats to battlefields, treaties, religious reform and Jacobite risings.
Featured Places & Stories
12 selected places in this curated collection
North
Culloden Moor, Inverness
Culloden Battlefield
Culloden marks the end of the 1745 Jacobite rising, but the ground also carries the story of what followed and how the battle came to be remembered.
North
Stirling
Stirling Castle
At Stirling, the geography does much of the explaining. The castle rises above a crossing that helped shape centuries of Scottish history.
East
St Andrews, Fife
St Andrews: Cathedral & Castle
St Andrews was once one of the most powerful religious centres in Scotland, and the castle beside the cathedral shows how closely belief and politics could meet.
East
Arbroath, Angus
Arbroath Abbey
A great abbey on the Angus coast became linked to one of medieval Scotland's boldest statements about who had the right to rule the country.
East
Old Town, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is familiar from almost every angle, but its history becomes more interesting once you stop treating it as one thing.
South
Branxton, Northumberland (Cross-Border Scope)
Flodden Field
At Flodden, James IV's decision to cross the Border ended with a dead king and a country suddenly facing a very different future.
South
Innerleithen, Scottish Borders
Traquair House
Traquair looks peaceful now, but generations of the same family lived here with the consequences of religion and political loyalty.
South
Canonbie, Dumfriesshire
Gilnockie Tower
Gilnockie belongs to a Border world where family, feud and local power could matter as much as instructions from a king.
West
Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire
Dumbarton Castle
Before Edinburgh and Stirling became familiar centres of royal power, Dumbarton Rock already commanded the Clyde.
West
Inveraray, Argyll
Inveraray Castle
At Inveraray, the castle is only part of the story. Campbell power was written across the town, estate and landscape around it.
West
Glenfinnan, Lochaber
Glenfinnan Monument
Glenfinnan is both a place of rebellion and a place where later generations decided how rebellion should be remembered.
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