The Battle of Culloden in Fiction
- G. A. Henty: Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
- Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (1992, London) is a detailed fictional tale, based on historical sources, of the Scots, High- and Lowlanders, mostly the Highlanders within Clan Fraser.
- The Highlanders is the fourth serial of the fourth season (and the 31st story overall) in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Doctor and his friends arrive in the TARDIS in the hours after the Battle of Culloden. They are persecuted by the British forces for helping survivors of the Scottish Clans. At the end of the story, one of the survivors, a young piper named Jamie McCrimmon joins the Doctor in travels through time and space. The Highlanders was broadcast in four weekly parts from 17 December 1966 to 7 January 1967. The episodes no longer exist, except as censored film clips, audio recordings, and off-air photographs.
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