Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History. I've got all the greatest stories in British

history to share with you today. It's the story of the 1745 Jacobike Revolt when Charles

Edward Stewart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, attempted to seize the throne of Britain from his

Hannah Varian cousins and Layson Gentlemen, he came close. This week, when this episode's

first broadcast, it's the middle of August 2021, but this week in 1745, Bonnie Prince

Charlie raised the Royal Standard at Glend Finnan. On the banks of the beautiful Los

Shield surrounded by several hundred Highlanders, including Cameron of Lockheel, Bonnie Prince

Charlie raised his Royal Studies flag. They shared a brandy and they set off on a campaign

that would take them deep into England and come closest probably of all of the Jacobike

uprisings to regaining their ancestors' throes. Charles at Landed, he launched his desperate

venture with only a handful of supporters in Erich Sey in Ireland in the outer Hebrides

at the end of July 1745. As you'll hear, a mixture of gold, personal charisma and loyalty

to their ancestral ruling family drove many to support him when he landed on the mainland

of Scotland. I am lucky enough to be joined on this podcast by the very, very brilliant

Murray Pitog. He's a professor at the University of Glasgow. There is nothing, nothing about

this period he does not know about. This was a brilliant, brilliant, comprehensive survey

of one of the most dramatic uprisings in British history. 1745 to 1746, ending with the terrible

defeat on the field of Colodon and Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape through the Highlands

to a waiting French ship. If you wish to see my excavation or my disinternement, I think

it is, I don't know, we opened up the coffin of a man who was said to be at the Battle

of Colodon, one of the last great Highland Lairds, the old fox, Simon Fraser. He was the last

man to be beheaded and Britain for treason. He rebelled against George II, took the side

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