Prince Charlie’s Birthday
Marking Charles Edward Stuart’s birthday Yesterday (20 December 2020) marked 300 years since the birth of Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Prince of Wales who led the Highlanders to victory […]
HMS Fox remembered
HMS Fox was a sixth-rate Royal Navy frigate, built in 1740, which was tasked in 1745 with supporting Sir John Cope’s operations in East Lothian prior to the Battle of […]
A date for your diary!
The skirl of the pipes and the beat of the drums will return to Prestonpans next year, as the Trust prepares for its triennial partnership with the Scottish Battlefields Trust […]
“Beneath the Thorntree”
When we originally planned our 275th anniversary programme, we had the idea of holding a special narrative concert evening in Prestonpans to tell the story of the battle through some […]
A digital 275th anniversary!
There was never a moment when the Trust envisaged postponing or cancelling the 275th Anniversary Commemorations. It was simply a matter of how they could be conducted in the ever-mutating […]