Membership Subscription Price Change (effective 1st January 2025)

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.

• 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.

• For those in the U.K. the subscription rates from Jan 1 2025 will be:-

• Hard Copy Jacobite Single membership — £25.00. Joint membership, (at the same address) £30.00

• 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

1745 Association - St George’s Gardens Commemoration - 1st May 2025

Please find a revised itinerary here for those of you who will attend the day out in London and commemoration at St George’s Gardens.
At present we have 14 people who have expressed a serious interest in attending. There is room for a few more if there are any interested from either the 1745 Association or The Northumbrian Jacobites.
Please note the start time of 10.30. I have indicated to one or two of you that it was 10.45 but it will be a busy day.
Steve Lord

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 former chairman Mike Nevin states:
"Even in these early editions, three key characteristics were in evidence:

• 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;

• an emphasis on previously under-researched aspects of the Rising; and

• 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.”

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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.

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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 (at the time) proposed trip to Florence.
Thanks to our former Chairman, Michael Nevin.
The programme is available on BBC Sounds.

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1745 Association Lecture - Culloden 18 April 2025

In this attachment you will find details of this year’s Christopher Duffy Memorial lecture which will be held at 3pm on Friday 18 April in the Robertson room of the Culloden Visitir Centre.
Attendance is not limited to members of the 1745 Association so please feel free to tell others about the talk. Tickets are limited to 40 so please book early if you wish to attend.
We thank our Vice Chairman Mr Ian Wear for his efforts in securing the services of Professor David Purdie who will speak on the surgeons who were part of Prince Charles’ army in the campaign of 1745-46.
Tickets are through Eventbrite and are £8.00 each.
The link to the Eventbrite site is here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charlies-3-mds-tickets-1297210033129?aff=oddtdtcreator

Articles

It is the intention of the Association to provide a Members Only section to the site which will contain interesting articles, information and other items that you will only gain access to as a subscribed member of the 1745 Association.

Until such time, articles approved for sharing will be published in this section.

Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Music: A Lifelong Love
Authors: Mr Stefano Baccolo and Dr Calum E. Cunningham

The article referred to has been distributed to members of the Association via our e-mail distribution. The authors and contributors have kindly given permission for this to be made available via our website.
You can access the paper here.​

2023 - Clifton Anniversary
Authors: Mr Ian Wear

At the close of the day on Saturday,18th December 1745, elements of The Prince's Army fought a brilliant rearguard action under the command of Lord George Murray.
The last battle on English soil took place by intermittent moonlight between four regiments of Jacobite Infantry, the Macphersons, the MacDonells of Glengarry, John Roy Stuart's Edinburgh Regiment and the Stewarts of Appin. The Hanoverian troops comprised dismounted dragoons - for dragoons are defined as mounted infantry, obliged by the trappy terrain to forsake their mounts. They were Bland's, Kerr's and Cobham's, with Ligonier's, Kingston's and Montagu's in support.
That terrain was of great assistance to the Prince's troops; they had the advantage of cover and concealment, hilltops and hedges, ditches and darkness .... save for the moonlight, which shone brightly upon the leather crossbelts of the Government troops; it was a near perfect ambush.
An outflanking tactic to cut off the retreat via Brougham had failed - the Hanoverians were late to the party and their commander, General Oglethorpe faced court martial as a result, although he was exonerated.
People have downplayed the significance of the engagement; Cumberland slept that night at Town End Farm, on the Southern tip of the village, so was he the victor? The answer has to be a most emphatic negative, for this was never designed to be an action to retain Clifton, it was mission accomplished for the homeward bound Jacobites; they crossed the Esk unharried and regained their native land, save for the brave souls of the Manchester Regiment and some others who formed a garrison at Carlisle Castle and who held out until the end of the year.
Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Honeywood, a Government commander, later referred to by a Jacobite prisoner as the man in the muckle boots, had been seriously wounded at Dettingen, was severely wounded again but survived and went on to be Member of Parliament for Appleby in Westmorland for many years.
Heroes served on both sides in that hour long action, and it is fitting that we as an apolitical association recognize the courage displayed in the darkness of that December day all those years ago.
On the anniversary this year, tributes were laid at the foot of the Jacobite Oak - also known as the Rebel Tree (Remember, history is written by the victors); white roses at the memorial on the traditional site of the burial of the Jacobite casualties, likely to be Macphersons, (which is opposite Town End Farm), and red roses in the churchyard at the modern memorial to Bland's Dragoons.
Soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest.
Some photographs can be accessed by clicking here.

From Jacobite To ‘Judas’? A Re-Assessment Of The Reputation Of ‘Pickle The Spy’ AKA Alistair Ruadh MacDonell, 13th Chief Of Glengarry
Authors: Ms Samantha MacLaren

In September of 2022 Samantha MacLaren, an undergraduate at the University of Wales, contacted the 1745 Association seeking information relating to the death of Young Glengarry in Falkirk in January 1746. This was in connection with a dissertation she was writing about his older brother Alistair Ruadh MacDonell who was an active Jacobite during the ’45 and became the 13th Chief of the MacDonells of Glengarry on the death of his father John in 1754. Our member Glen MacDonald duly provided some assistance and she has since shared her completed and very interesting work with the Association. The dissertation seeks to examine the motivations behind Alistair Ruadh MacDonell’s conversion from ardent Jacobite during the ’45 to his secret turncoat role after the Rising as the Hanoverian government informant known as “Pickle the Spy”, and in particular his betrayal of the Elibank Plot of 1752.
The document can be accessed by clicking here.

Prince Charles' escape through the Redcoat lines July 1745
Authors: Mr Peter D Brown

This article was originally available through our previous website incarnation and the author, our current treasurer Peter D Brown, has kindly made this available again for visitors to our site.
The document can be accessed by clicking here.