Dr Patrick Watt

Highlander in Istanbul | Former curator of modern history and Military collections @NtlMuseumsScot | Cultural heritage, museums, war, empire, Scotland

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Love #materialculture? Ever wondered about the Highland Society of London? Or the origins of the Scottish military tradition? Look no further!! My article on that very subject is out now in Historical Research from @ihr_history

https://t.co/wSWzSHypfb

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@XiangFrancisWei Hi, there seems to be a John Campbell of Limefield who had a testament proven at Edinburgh Commissary Court in 1768. It has been digitized and can be downloaded (for a few) on ScotlandsPeople. Might have some clues?

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@ProfTonyPollard @UofGlasgow @UofGWarstudies @UofGHistory And it should be Robieson not Robinson. Stupid autocorrect

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@ProfTonyPollard @UofGlasgow @UofGWarstudies @UofGHistory Dunkeld, that should be

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The History of Art Research Seminar of this semester is on Thursday 16 November at 5:15 pm (Hunter Lecture Theatre @eca_edinburgh @EdinburghUni
Dr Sarah Laurenson, who will be speaking about Crafting colour worlds: the making of Scottish jewellery in the long nineteenth century.

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@burnsjilly @HistEnvScot Congratulations!!! What a fantastic job!!

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@RMB_History There were two recorded with the 92nd Highlanders too, in 1815

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@Julieh80 Same here!

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@mesutuyar10 It is real and in the collections of the National War Museum in Edinburgh. It was awarded for services in Egypt in 1801

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Since the earlier #Waterloo tweets were so successful let’s see what the 92nd Highlanders were up to on the day itself.

They retired from Quatre Bras on 17 June, probably with no more than 300 men and 12 officers. Few were present when they buried Fassfern. Here he is + medals

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Thomas Harper spent the night of 18 June among the dead and wounded on the old French front line. Robertson remembered “No one could speak so awestruck were we with the horrid spectacle”. From there, the 92nd began their advance to Paris, and the long journey home

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Sergeant David Robertson, in temporary command of No2 and No3 companies said “all was now destruction and confusion”. A French unit tried to stand and fight but “we rushed upon it like a legion of demons”. French resistance soon ended and the Allies were victorious