18th century

Recounts major events in British history and describes major political figures and the individual Briton.

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

A radical young man, teaching in a slum school in eighteenth-century Manchester during a time of great political unrest, is charged with conspiracy.

Fiercely proud and loyal to her Highland heritage, fifteen-year-old Hadder can't understand why her beloved older brother, after his return from schooling in Edinburgh, no longer seems to share her passionate belief in the Jacobite cause.

Profiles the great-granddaughters of King Charles II in the context of 18thcentury aristocracy in Great Britain.