- On 23 July 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stewart, ‘The Young Pretender’, landed in Eriskay with only seven men. Charles soon managed to talk round Cameron of Lochiel to his cause and within a month had raised his standard at Glenfinnan. The last Jacobite Rising was to follow.
Songs of Two Rebellions: The Jacobite Wars of 1715 and 1745 in Scotland. Spotify
- On this day in 1946 James Maxton, the Scottish Socialist politician, died. Maxton was born into a middle-class family in Glasgow, but was converted to Socialism while working as a teacher, joining the Independent Labour Party soon after. Elected as MP for Bridgeton in 1922, he retained the seat until his death. He often criticised the government of Ramsay MacDonald for its moderate policies, and when the National Government was formed by MacDonald he successfully persuaded the Independent Labour Party to break away from the Labour Party. He was also a keen supporter of Scottish Home Rule and was for a while the President of the Scottish Home Rule Association .
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