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Membership Subscription Price Change
Our subscription rates have changed only once between 2006 and now. This has been a remarkable achievement considering the increase in prices over that time. The number of pages and quality of printing has much improved the journal over that time. Printing and postage costs have increased dramatically, especially when you consider that we occasionally produce a “bumper” edition.
We have decided that subscription rates must increase and this particularly applies to those overseas where the cost of postage has become unsustainable.
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The new rate for single membership overseas for those receiving the hard copy Jacobite will be £30.00 per annum. For joint membership at the same address the rate will be £35.00. Paypal is probably the best way for overseas payments. The electronic version is available to you at the same rate as charged to those in the U.K.
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For those in the U.K. the subscription rates from Jan 1 2025 will be:-
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Hard Copy Jacobite Single membership — £25.00. Joint membership, (at the same address) £30.00
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Electronic Copy Jacobite Single membership — £7.00. Joint membership (same email address) £9.00
Subscriptions are due on or before January 1. New members joining between October 1 to December 31 are offered 15 months’ membership for the price of 12.
We encourage those holding a U.K bank account to set up a standing order using the details below.
Bank of Scotland
The 1745 Association
Sort Code: 80-07-17. Account number: 00754609
We implore existing members to update their standing orders and ask that you reference your SO with clear identification such as your name and post code. Your name may be sufficient but we do have several MacDonalds!
We also accept payments through our website by PayPal and also cheques drawn on a UK bank made out to The 1745 Association and sent to the membership secretary whose details are in The Jacobite.
Should you decide to change your membership type please inform us via the Contact Form
Mass for Rev'd Robert Lyon Martyr - Sunday, 27th October 2024
Please be aware that there will be a Mass for Rev'd Robert Lyon Martyr, to be held at St Ninian's Cathedral Perth on Sunday 27th October at 16:00. The service will be led by Provost Stephen Holmes with our President The Very Reverend A. Emsley Nimmo as preacher.
All welcome to attend.
Robert Lyon was a young Episcopal priest who ministered to St John's congregation at Perth during the '45. He decided to follow the Prince's army into England and served in Lord Ogilvy's Forfarshire regiment. He wrote later: 'I never bore arms, for this I thought inconsistent with my sacred character.' After the Battle of Culloden on 16th April 1746, Lyon was captured and imprisoned at Montrose, then York, and finally moved to Carlisle for trial. He was sentenced to execution on 28th October, along with 76 others. He was hung, drawn and quartered, one of the last in Britain to suffer such a barbaric fate. He forgave Cumberland. He never bore arms as a Chaplain in the Forfarshire Regiment. He was denied the right along with other prisoners to be tried by the Scots Legal system. All were sentenced in England.
Jacobite 175F Summer Edition - Special Edition
A new paper has been made available via our website. Please visit the Articles section for access to "Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Music: A Lifelong Love", authored by Mr Stefano Baccolo and Dr Calum E. Cunningham.
New Appointment - Charlie Zahm
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Charlie Zahm as our "Ambassador of the 1745 Association to North America".
Many members will be aware of Charlie and his wonderful online performances as part of our '45 in '45 Minutes meetings which can be found on our Audio/Visual page.
Welcome Charlie !
Association YouTube Channel Strengthens
We recently received very positive statistics regarding the 1745 Association YouTube channel where you will find all our '45 in 45 Minutes presentations along with many other interesting videos.
The highlights for 2023 are as follows:
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70 New Subscribers
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9,166 Views
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243 Likes
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70 Shares
This shows the real interest in the events around our period of interest and is proving another valuable method of communication.
Thanks go to our Honorary Vice-Chair Mike Nevin for maintaining this channel.
Brigadier John Macfarlane - by Michael Nevin
It is my sad duty to report that Brigadier John M. Macfarlane, former Chair and President of The 1745 Association, passed away peacefully at his family home in Taynuilt, Argyll, on Monday.
Born in Tobermory in 1939, John was educated at Tobermory School, Oban High School and the University of Glasgow, where he studied Modern Languages. He began his Army career training Gurkha soldiers as an officer in the Royal Army Educational Corps (RAEC) in Malaya during the 1960s, and subsequently served in a number of intelligence-related posts, retiring in 1994 after more than 30 years' service. He later held posts in the Middle East before coming home to Argyll, where he played an active role in community and church affairs and in actively promoting wider knowledge of Gaelic culture and history.
In 2005, he presented a BBC Alba programme on the Battle of Monte Cassino (1944) which, for me, remains the definitive account of the WW2 battle, and included interviews with Scottish veterans of the battle in their native Gaelic.
He also served as Chieftain of the Gaelic Society of Inverness and gave the Chief's Address at the annual Commemorative Service on Drummossie Moor on April 17th 2010, drawing on his military experience to evoke in most vivid terms what was going through the minds of the Jacobite soldiers who stood at Culloden on April 16th 1746.
He gave tireless and invaluable service to The 1745 Association as our Chair between 2003 and 2009 and President between 2009 and 2019. At the time of his death, he was an Honorary Vice Chair of the Association, continuing to generously contribute to the Association's activities whenever called upon, most recently supporting the transfer of Association's collection of books and records to the A.K. Bell Library in Perth last September. In 2020, he kindly recorded a few lines from John Roy Stuart's poems 'The Day of Culloden' and 'Lament for Lady Macintosh' for the Association in Gaelic and English, where his rich baritone rendition will hopefully still be heard for years to come at https://www.1745association.org.uk/audio-video.
One anecdote he told me of his military career comes to mind at this sad time. Serving in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, he received an urgent command late at night to deploy his unit to a border farmhouse where armed Irishmen had been seen. On arrival, his platoon heard an ominous squealing which enabled them to locate and surround the Irishmen and demand their surrender. Their flashlights shone to reveal a motley group of men carrying pigs and piglets. Their leader claimed that it was all an unfortunate misunderstanding, and sure they were just trying to take the pigs and their poor wee piglets to safety as they seemed to be lost. He then most helpfully offered to return them to the farm where they belonged before heading back over the border.
As related by John, the story was an amusing cameo during a difficult period, but at the time, in the dead of night at the height of the Troubles, it can have been no laughing matter. The incident could have had tragic and potentially fatal consequences had it not been for John's calm temperament and characteristically measured response. As it was, the Irish rustlers and British platoon parted, if not exactly the best of friends, at least on as amicable terms as could be expected under such circumstances.
Brigadier John Macfarlane, British Army Officer and dedicated supporter of the Gaelic language and culture, passed away at his home at Taynuilt, Argyll, on Monday, May 8th 2023
The ‘45 in 45 minutes - 2023
Talks on Topics of Jacobite Interest given by Members of The 1745 Association for Members of The 1745 Association. They all start at 17:45 and are open to all members via a Zoom link. This will be provided in advance of each talk. The upcoming talks will be as follows, exact topics to be confirmed:
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Forthcoming events will be posted when available.
Association Library Relocation
If you wish to access the association library, this has recently relocated from Callender House in Falkirk to it's new permanent home at the AK Bell Library in Perth. The official opening of the Association Library took place on Friday, 9th September 2022 as part of the members Annual Gathering.
BBC Alba had a piece on their An Là bulletin on Friday, 16th.
The link to Maggie MacKinnon’s piece covering the Official Opening of The 1745 Collection at the AK Bell Library in Perth, which lasts 4 minutes and is in a mix of Gaelic and English, can be seen on:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan/fbh/62935115
The library is now open and free to access to all interested in the Jacobite era, as a one-stop shop for Jacobite books and research. It includes the Lole Papers which comprise the correspondence, papers and articles of the late F Peter Lole who served for many years as Editor of ‘The Jacobite’ and cover subjects such as Jacobite Glass, on which he was one of the world’s leading authorities.
First 1745 Association Journal
The first edition of what has evolved into The Jacobite was published in 1954, at a price of two shillings, under the editorship of Dr George Pratt Insh CBE, under the title Transactions of the Forty-Five Association (click the link to read). A second edition under his editorship was published in 1956.
Dr Insh was a distinguished historian in his own right, and these early editions have a definite academic flavour, including as they do scholarly papers by other leading historians of the day, including Sir Charles Petrie, Vice-President of the Association, on "Ireland and 45" and Cyril Hughes Hartmann on "Naval Operations in the 45"
Our present chairman Mike Nevin states:
"Even in these early editions, three key characteristics were in evidence:
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an emphasis on first-hand evidence provided by the writings of participants in the Rising of 1745, with letters from Lord George Murray to his wife dating from the 1730s and 1740s published in the first two editions;
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an emphasis on previously under-researched aspects of the Rising; and
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a particular interest in the lives and destinies of individuals caught up in the Rising – from the beginning, the journal focused on the social and cultural history of the ‘45, rather than political, economic or military events, although these were also covered.”
Proposed Battle of Falkirk Muir Visitor Centre
Our member Roddy Tulloch and his team have prepared a prospectus for the proposed Battle of Falkirk Muir Visitor Centre which may be of interest to our members and others.
The prospectus can be viewed HERE.
BBC Sounds - Culloden
Members may be interested in listening to “From Our Own Correspondent” broadcast on 27th April 2020 on BBC Radio 4 between 1130 & 1230. 5 minutes and 49 seconds into the programme there is a piece on the cancellation of the ceremony at Culloden and general Jacobite matters. The 1745 Association gets a mention which includes the proposed trip to Florence.
Thanks to our Chairman, Michael Nevin.
The programme is available on BBC Sounds.
Social Media Update - Twitter
The 1745 Associaton are now on Twitter. Follow us for up to date news on events, updates and an "on this day" feature of pertinent events during the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46. Click on the Twitter icon below or this link.
The Story of Killiecrankie Battlefield and Transport Scotland's plan to destroy its heart
A very interesting and informative video in the link on our "Audio / Video" page.
This is about the proposed road works that Transport Scotland are looking to dual the A9 through the Battlfield of Killicrankie. They are proposing to duel the south side of the existing road which will destroy the most important part of the Battlefield.
The aim is to get to get them to change their plans and dual the north side of the A9 which would have much less impact on the battlefield.
Further information can be found at the following website: https://www.soldiersofkilliecrankie.co.uk/
