Cultural References
The history of the Jacobite risings has inspired many stories and songs. Sir Walter Scott drew on the second rising for his first novel Waverley, which features a vivid description of the Battle of Prestonpans and a description of the Jacobite stronghold of Doune Castle. Scott returned to the first rising for his novel Rob Roy. In The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson, a family decides that their two sons will take opposing sides in the 'Forty Five rebellion to preserve the estates whoever wins. Stevenson's Kidnapped is based on real events in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, which also provides the political backdrop to the narrative of Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Diana Gabaldon's historical time-travel series, Outlander, chronicles the events of the second rising.
The First Jacobite Rebellion is recounted in the song "Eleventh Earl of Mar" by Genesis, from their Wind & Wuthering album, and the risings have inspired bands as diverse as Argentinian band Sumo and German metal band Grave Digger.
The classic Doctor Who serial The Highlanders begins just after the Battle of Culloden and concerns the Doctor's attempts to free several captured Highlanders from a corrupt English officer intent on selling his prisoners as slaves to the colonies.
Several flashback sequences in various episodes of Highlander: The Series deal with or reference the Battle of Culloden and the actions of the Series' protagonist Duncan MacLeod, in the battle's aftermath.
The television adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's novel Monarch of the Glen, centered around a modern day Clan MacDonald, has numerous references to the Battle of Culloden, at which they supposedly fought, including relics of the battle and clan disputes remaining fresh to this day.
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