Blades not Bullets: the Battle of Culloden

The Battle of Culloden, which vanquished for good Jacobite claims to the British throne, is a much mythologised and misunderstood event. Murray Pittock cuts through the fog of war to find out what really happened in April 1746.   

After the battle: Culloden Moor Looking Across the Moray Firth, 1746, engraving by H. Griffiths, c.1830.

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