Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland, a podcast where we take a wonder through the glens of Scottish

history, mythology and nature. I'm Jenny, an environmental scientist. And I'm Annie, an archivist

and historian. Last week we looked at the Battle of Collodden and we're returning again to

look at the aftermath of this infamous battle. If you haven't already listened,

it would be worth heading back and catching up now. This episode does come with a warning. It

contains some very graphic accounts of the events, and this is the first time I've had to mark

an episode as being explicit.

I do think it's important that we tell the history of the aftermath of Colloden in its entirety,

but there is a trigger warning with this episode.

We're going to include descriptions of violence, murder and rape.

Out of respect for the weight of the topics we're speaking about this week,

we're not going to have any of our usual humour in this episode,

but our next episode will be more light-hearted, we promise.

But until then, here's a quick recap of where we left off last episode.

We have two armies, the Jacobites under the command of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the mixed European prince from Italy, who along

with his army of Scottish clans, Scots, Irish and English soldiers, is attempting to reclaim

the British crown in the name of the House of Stuart.

Many of the Jacobite troops are simply fighting because they oppose the act of union,

which has made them poorer as it has cut off key trading partners in Europe,

a story as old as time.

On the other side at Clodden, we had the British government army commanded by the

Hanoverian King's youngest son, the Duke of Cumberland. With his win at Caledon, he hopes he has

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