Today may be Valentine's Day, but our subject is anything other than romantic.

In the early hours of the 13th of February, 1692, in the rugged and beautiful mountains

of Glencoe in the Highlands of Scotland, the muck Donalds were massacred by the Scottish

Army.

It was a political act, a consequence of the so-called glorious revolution of 1688-89, in which

King James II of England and VII of Scotland had been deposed and replaced by his Protestant

daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange.

But this wasn't business as usual, even by the standards of the time what happened at

Glencoe was considered an atrocity and an act of mass murder.

To explore how it came to this, and to mark the 330th anniversary of the massacre, I'm

joined by Dr. Alan Kennedy.

Dr. Kennedy is a lecturer in history at the University of Dundee, and consultant editor

of the Popular Magazine, History Scotland.

His research focuses on the political and social history of early modern Scotland, especially

on the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

His list of published academic journal articles is as long as your arm, and his prize-winning

first book was governing Gaildom, the Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688.

Dr. Kennedy, thank you so much for joining me today on Not Just the Tudors.

To talk about this awful event, for those for whom the Glencoe massacre rings a distant

bell, could you give a little reminder of what exactly happened on the day before we

discuss more about why it happened?

Absolutely.

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