Women of the Highlands by Katharine Stewart sampler
What was the crime of the last wich burnt in the Highlands? Which Jacobite lady led men to war while her Hanoverian husband stayed at home? Who were the first Highland women to be recorded in history? And how have wome's lives changed since medieval times? Katharine Stewart takes us to the heart of the Highlands in her history of the women who shaped this land and handed down the legends which have provided a rich vein of material for generations. From the women of the shielings to ladies at court, from bards to conservationists, authors to folk-singers, Women of the Highlands examines how the culture of the Highlands was created and passed down through the centuries, and how the tradition is continuing today.
What was the crime of the last wich burnt in the Highlands?
Which Jacobite lady led men to war while her Hanoverian husband stayed at home?
Who were the first Highland women to be recorded in history?
And how have wome's lives changed since medieval times?
Katharine Stewart takes us to the heart of the Highlands in her history of the women who shaped this land and handed down the legends which have provided a rich vein of material for generations. From the women of the shielings to ladies at court, from bards to conservationists, authors to folk-singers, Women of the Highlands examines how the culture of the Highlands was created and passed down through the centuries, and how the tradition is continuing today.
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Chronology<br />
c. 4000 bc Bronze Age hunter-ga<strong>the</strong>rers<br />
c. 700 bc – 500 ad Iron Age settlers<br />
43 ad – 450 ad Roman occupation<br />
c. 455 ad Brigid <strong>of</strong> Kildare born<br />
c. 525 ad Brigid, now St Bride, died<br />
565 ad St Columba arrives from Ireland<br />
697 ad Adamnan, Abbot <strong>of</strong> Iona, advocates<br />
exemption from military service for women<br />
c. 800 ad Norse Invasions<br />
1224 Euphemia <strong>of</strong> Duffus Castle married<br />
1314 Battle <strong>of</strong> Bannockburn<br />
1513 Battle <strong>of</strong> Flodden<br />
c. 1569 Mairi MacLeod born<br />
1590 <strong>Katharine</strong> Ross and Hector Munro tried for<br />
witchcraft<br />
1597 King James vi’s Daemonologie published<br />
1627 Magdalen Carnegie betro<strong>the</strong>d to <strong>the</strong> Earl <strong>of</strong><br />
Montrose<br />
1662 Isobel Gowdie convicted <strong>of</strong> witchcraft<br />
1674 Mairi MacLeod died at Dunvegan<br />
1689 Battle <strong>of</strong> Killiecrankie<br />
1692 Massacre <strong>of</strong> Glencoe<br />
1707 Union <strong>of</strong> Parliaments<br />
1715, 1719 and 1745 Jacobite uprisings<br />
1722 Flora MacDonald born<br />
1727 Last judicial execution <strong>of</strong> witches<br />
1746 Battle <strong>of</strong> Culloden<br />
1749 Jane Maxwell, Duchess <strong>of</strong> Gordon, born<br />
1755 Anne Grant <strong>of</strong> Laggan born<br />
1775–1783 American War <strong>of</strong> Independence<br />
1780s<br />
Tartan becomes fashionable in London<br />
1789 French Revolution<br />
1790 Flora MacDonald died<br />
1793–1815 Napoleonic Wars<br />
1797 Elizabeth Grant <strong>of</strong> Rothiemurchus born<br />
1803 The Highlanders and o<strong>the</strong>r Poems <strong>by</strong> Anne<br />
Grant published<br />
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