Part Five of Tom’s journey following Bonnie Prince Charlie’s trail at Glen Cannich, looking at some of the more puzzling aspects of those extraordinary months.    But for this diversion the fleet […]

Part Four of Tom’s journey following Bonnie Prince Charlie’s trail at Glen Cannich, looking at some of the more puzzling aspects of those extraordinary months.    Now for the incredibly bold […]

Part Three of Tom’s journey following Bonnie Prince Charlie’s trail at Glen Cannich, looking at some of the more puzzling aspects of those extraordinary months.    Charlie was advancing towards luxury now […]

Part Two of Tom’s journey following Bonnie Prince Charlie’s trail at Glen Cannich, looking at some of the more puzzling aspects of those extraordinary months.  (Click here for Part One) On […]

Last month Tom Weir described his recent researches, on the ground and in documents, into the Highland wanderings of Prince Charlie after Culloden. In this article he picks up the trail […]

Escaping government troops by climbing through Knoydart, Bonnie Prince Charlie hid in the very place his father’s troops fought the Battle of Shiel…   On that occasion, though, the self-styled James VIII […]

The aftermath of the Battle of Sheil, and implications for Bonnie Prince Charlie in his escape through Knoydart   By reason of that battle the great Mackenzie clan’s lands and […]

Tom Weir stops in at a cave of wonder on his trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s escape through Knoydart…   I had promised our cameraman not just a dark cave, […]

In 1980, Tom wrote a piece for us while filming an episode of Weir’s Way in Bonnie Prince Charlie’s footsteps around Kintail   We set out aboard the fishing boat Western Isles […]