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The Scottish Parliament to showcase a major new exhibition titled Rebels with a Cause: The Jacobites and the Global Imagination.
The fascinating exhibition explores and challenges traditional assumptions about the Jacobites and highlights the worldwide aspects of the Jacobite story.
It reveals how after their defeat, some fled to the exiled courts of Paris and Rome, while many others drew upon a network of kin and patronage to seek new opportunities in Baltic Europe, North America and India.
This free exhibition has been curated in partnership between the Scottish Parliament and the University of Aberdeen and draws upon rarely seen and internationally significant material from the University’s collection.
The exhibition also delves into the lives of figures such as Flora MacDonald and Hugh Mercer and highlights the enduring impact of the Jacobites on Scottish history, literature, culture, art and music.
Included are rare engravings, portraits and letters, a Jacobite recruitment slip and songbook, a letter written by Bonnie Prince Charlie while in exile, a first edition of Sir Walter Scott’s novel Waverley and a selection of 20th century Rob Roy comics. One of the rarest artefacts is an ostrich egg carved with secret Jacobite symbols made in memory of the death of James VIII and III.
Rebels with a Cause runs from Wednesday October 27 to Saturday January 8, 2011 at The Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh.