Flora MacDonald, Scotland’s Trailblazer
National Galleries: “Flora Macdonald (1722-1790) courageously helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape ‘over the sea to Skye’, a story that is one of Scotland’s most enduring legends. After Prince Charlie’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, he was on the run from the British Army and hiding in the Hebrides. Flora took a huge personal risk in concealing him as her maid ‘Betty Burke’ and helping him evade the British, before eventually reaching the safety of France. But what happened to Flora after this? This film looks at Flora’s heroic act, and then some of the less well-known adventures she undertook. What happened after Charlie escaped and she was arrested for helping him? Why did she help him? And what became of her later in life as she and her family emigrated to America, a colony on the brink of war with Britain? Watch to discover some of the lesser-known facts about the life of one of Scotland’s celebrated Jacobite heroines.”
Scottish History and Culture Can’t Be Subsumed By Europe and Britain. Rediscovering My Scottish Roots
Raised in Scotland County, North Carolina, with Scottish ancestry on my father’s side, I’ve had an interest in Scottish history and culture since I was a wee lad. “The woods are filled with kinfolk or God-blessed Macks,” my father used to say. But how and why did all those Scots come to North America, specifically to North Carolina? When did they abando…