Battle of Falkirk Muir (1746) Jacobite Conference
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The Battle of Falkirk Muir (1746) Trust are excited to host our next conference that will commemorate the Battle’s 278th anniversary.
Count Peter Pininski - Bonnie Prince Charlie - did he have 3, or 4 grandchildren?
Geoff Bailey - The physical landscape of the Falkirk area with regard to the Battle of Falkirk
Alistair Moffat - War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans
Professor Edward Corp - Prince Charles Stuart's Highland Weapons
Professor Hugh Cheape - 'It was a day for us on the Plain of Scotland.....': other voices, other views on the Battle of Falkirk Muir
Dr Alastair Mann - James VII in biography and autobiography: the first and 'forgotten' Jacobite
In addition to the speakers, on the day there will also be:
Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the door to greet you as you come in (in the form of a life-sized mannequin)!
An exhibition of some major works of art from the Battle of Falkirk Muir Trust collection including James VIII with his mother Queen Mary of Modena painted by Benedetto Gennari and also King James VII by Alexis Simon Belle. Previews of these can be seen in our virtual art gallery: www.falkirkmuir1746.scot/artgallery
On display will also be copies of the1747 Lemoyne bust of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the skull of a 30 year old Jacobite killed at Culloden with a musket ball through the head.
There will be book sales and the authors have offered to sign some copies of their books.
The event is kindly sponsored by Bonhams Scotland Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers.
Speakers Information
Geoff Bailey
Geoff is from Lancashire but has been the Keeper of Archaeology & Local History at Falkirk Museum since October 1984 and so covers every period of occupation in the area from the Mesolithic to the present day! To that end, Geoff has excavated everything from a Neolithic roundhouse to a Second World War air raid shelter. Geoff has also published several books and many articles. The book on the Battle of Falkirk was published by John Donald in 1996 for the 250th anniversary.
Professor Edward Corp
Edward Corp was Professor of British History at the University of Toulouse. He has written a history of the Stuart court in exile (1689-1766) in three volumes, a biography of Sir David Nairne (of Sandford in Fife) and about eighty articles in books and peer reviewed academic journals. He has curated and written the catalogues of two major exhibitions on the exiled Stuarts, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. In 2022 he was co-author (with Peter Pininski) of the catalogue of the centenary exhibition at the West Highland Museum.
Count Peter Pininski
Peter Pininski was born in London in 1956 and lives in Warsaw, Poland. A graduate of Sotheby’s Institute of Art and an ex-investment bank director, he has been chairman and a member of the supervisory boards of various public companies. He has lectured on the last Stuarts for institutions such as the National Trust for Scotland and been a guest speaker at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He is the president of the Lanckoronski Foundation, Liechtenstein, a member of the advisory board of the Lviv National Art Gallery in the Ukraine, as well as the Ossolineum National Institute in Poland, a member of the Biography Committee of the Polish Academy of Learning, a landowner, and the author of various publications on the exiled Stuarts, his most recent book being Bonnie Prince Charlie – His Life, Family, Legend, published by National Museums Scotland in 2022
Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history.
Professor Hugh Cheape
Hugh Cheape teaches a post-graduate programme at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and holds a Research Chair in the University of the Highlands and Islands. He was formerly a Principal Curator in the National Museums Scotland. He has published widely in the fields of regional ethnology and musicology.
Dr Alastair Mann
Alastair Mann is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling having taught at the university for three decades following on from a first career in book publishing. He researches and publishes widely on the Scottish premodern book trade (especially censorship and copyright), the pre-1707 Scottish Parliament, and Restoration politics and society. His publications include The Scottish Book Trade 1500-c.1720 (2000), winner of the Saltire Prize, and James VII, Duke and King of Scots, 1633-1701 (2014), the only biography of the monarch as king of Scots. He is co-editor of the online resource The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland (2008-), covering 500 years, and is principal investigator of the Leverhulme funded 'Scottish Privy Council Project' 2020-24, which is also in the process of producing an online resource covering the period 1692 to 1708.
Count Peter Pininski - Bonnie Prince Charlie - did he have 3, or 4 grandchildren?
Geoff Bailey - The physical landscape of the Falkirk area with regard to the Battle of Falkirk
Alistair Moffat - War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans
Professor Edward Corp - Prince Charles Stuart's Highland Weapons
Professor Hugh Cheape - 'It was a day for us on the Plain of Scotland.....': other voices, other views on the Battle of Falkirk Muir
Dr Alastair Mann - James VII in biography and autobiography: the first and 'forgotten' Jacobite
In addition to the speakers, on the day there will also be:
Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the door to greet you as you come in (in the form of a life-sized mannequin)!
An exhibition of some major works of art from the Battle of Falkirk Muir Trust collection including James VIII with his mother Queen Mary of Modena painted by Benedetto Gennari and also King James VII by Alexis Simon Belle. Previews of these can be seen in our virtual art gallery: www.falkirkmuir1746.scot/artgallery
On display will also be copies of the1747 Lemoyne bust of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the skull of a 30 year old Jacobite killed at Culloden with a musket ball through the head.
There will be book sales and the authors have offered to sign some copies of their books.
The event is kindly sponsored by Bonhams Scotland Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers.
Speakers Information
Geoff Bailey
Geoff is from Lancashire but has been the Keeper of Archaeology & Local History at Falkirk Museum since October 1984 and so covers every period of occupation in the area from the Mesolithic to the present day! To that end, Geoff has excavated everything from a Neolithic roundhouse to a Second World War air raid shelter. Geoff has also published several books and many articles. The book on the Battle of Falkirk was published by John Donald in 1996 for the 250th anniversary.
Professor Edward Corp
Edward Corp was Professor of British History at the University of Toulouse. He has written a history of the Stuart court in exile (1689-1766) in three volumes, a biography of Sir David Nairne (of Sandford in Fife) and about eighty articles in books and peer reviewed academic journals. He has curated and written the catalogues of two major exhibitions on the exiled Stuarts, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. In 2022 he was co-author (with Peter Pininski) of the catalogue of the centenary exhibition at the West Highland Museum.
Count Peter Pininski
Peter Pininski was born in London in 1956 and lives in Warsaw, Poland. A graduate of Sotheby’s Institute of Art and an ex-investment bank director, he has been chairman and a member of the supervisory boards of various public companies. He has lectured on the last Stuarts for institutions such as the National Trust for Scotland and been a guest speaker at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He is the president of the Lanckoronski Foundation, Liechtenstein, a member of the advisory board of the Lviv National Art Gallery in the Ukraine, as well as the Ossolineum National Institute in Poland, a member of the Biography Committee of the Polish Academy of Learning, a landowner, and the author of various publications on the exiled Stuarts, his most recent book being Bonnie Prince Charlie – His Life, Family, Legend, published by National Museums Scotland in 2022
Alistair Moffat
Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history.
Professor Hugh Cheape
Hugh Cheape teaches a post-graduate programme at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and holds a Research Chair in the University of the Highlands and Islands. He was formerly a Principal Curator in the National Museums Scotland. He has published widely in the fields of regional ethnology and musicology.
Dr Alastair Mann
Alastair Mann is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling having taught at the university for three decades following on from a first career in book publishing. He researches and publishes widely on the Scottish premodern book trade (especially censorship and copyright), the pre-1707 Scottish Parliament, and Restoration politics and society. His publications include The Scottish Book Trade 1500-c.1720 (2000), winner of the Saltire Prize, and James VII, Duke and King of Scots, 1633-1701 (2014), the only biography of the monarch as king of Scots. He is co-editor of the online resource The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland (2008-), covering 500 years, and is principal investigator of the Leverhulme funded 'Scottish Privy Council Project' 2020-24, which is also in the process of producing an online resource covering the period 1692 to 1708.
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