Battle of Culloden
Final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising and the last battle fought on British soil. The supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie fought King George II's forces led by the Duke of Cumberland. T...
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Culloden - prisoners
3,470 prisoners were taken, men women and children, and it was decided that they should all be tried in England. Seven ships carried them from Inverness on 10 June 1746. Their destinies were vari...
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William Duke of Cumberland
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. He was the third son and the sixth of the eight children of King George II and Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach and was born on 15 April 1721 in Le...
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Able Seaman Richard Ferguson Cummins
Richard Ferguson Cummins was born on 29 November 1919 in Govan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In May 1936 he was appointed as a Postman Messenger in Glasgow and on 17 August 1938 he was promoted...
War dead, WW2
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Pete Curran
Politician and trade unionist. Born Patrick Francis Curran in Glasgow, becoming known as Pete from an early age. He moved to London where he co-founded the the National Union of Gasworkers and Gene...
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Mrs Dallas-Glyn
Born Edinburgh, Scotland as Isabella Gearns. Actress who adopted her mother’s maiden name of Glyn. In spite of her parents’ objections she went to Paris with her first husband Edward Wills to study...
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King David II of Scotland
King of Scotland from 1329. He spent many years in exile in France or in captivity in England. David was captured at the Battle of Neville's Cross in October 1346 and spent some time in the Tower ...
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Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth
Archbishop of Canterbury. Born Edinburgh. A pupil at Harrow. Suffered all his adult life from the damage to his lower back caused by a shooting accident. 1877 married Edith daughter of Archibald Ta...
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Thomas Davies
The bookseller and author who, in 1763, introduced Dr Samuel Johnson to James Boswell at his house in Russell Street. He took to bookselling after failing as an actor.
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37 victims of the Denmark Place arson attack
See Denmark Place arson attack for information about the venue and the event. It is thought more than 150 people were inside the building when the attack happened. 37 died and 23 were injured. T...
Group, Tragedy, Bolivia, Colombia, Libya, Mauritius, Scotland, Spain
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