Sunday, July 12, 2020

The Jacobite Rising of 1715 and the Murray Family – Brothers in Arms, Rosalind Anderson

Looks at the history of the Murray family, one of the senior families of the Scottish aristocracy, in the period leading up to the ’15, where three sons of John Murray, first duke of Atholl, fought on the Jacobite side. Well supported by an impressive array of family letters, this book gives us a real feel for life within this family, and helps explain why so many of the duke’s sons repeatedly rebelled

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