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==In fiction== {{more citations needed|section|date=April 2019}} [[File:Culloden Cairn at Knoydart, Nova Scotia.jpg|thumb|Culloden Memorial Cairn, [[Knoydart, Nova Scotia]]]] * [[The Skye Boat Song]] was composed in the late 19th century and recalled the journey of Bonnie Prince Charlie from [[Benbecula]] to the [[Isle of Skye]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Johnson|first=David|date=December 2012|title=The skye boat song|journal=Strings|volume=20|issue=5|page=43}}</ref> * The Battle of Culloden is an important episode in [[D. K. Broster]]'s ''The Flight of the Heron'' (1925), the first volume of her ''Jacobite Trilogy'', which has been made into a TV serial twice: by [[Scottish Television]] in 1968, as eight episodes and by the [[BBC]] in 1976. * [[Naomi Mitchison]]'s novel ''The Bull Calves'' (1947) deals with Culloden and its aftermath.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cairns |first=Craig |chapter=The Literary Tradition |editor1-first=T M |editor1-last=Devine |editor2-first=Jenny |editor2-last=Wormald |title=The Oxford handbook of modern Scottish history |location=Oxford; New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-19-956369-2 |page=114 }}</ref> * ''[[Culloden (film)|Culloden]]'' (1964), a [[BBC TV]] [[docudrama]] written and directed by [[Peter Watkins]], depicts the battle in the style of 20th-century television reporting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wigley |first=Samuel |date=28 July 2016 |title=10 great films set in the 18th century |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-films-set-18th-century |access-date=16 March 2022 |website=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref> * ''[[Dragonfly in Amber]]'' by [[Diana Gabaldon]] (1992, London) is a detailed fictional tale, based on historical sources, of the Scots, Highlanders, and Lowlanders, mostly the Highlanders within Clan Fraser. It has the element of [[time travel]], with the 20th-century [[protagonist]] knowing how the battle would turn out and was still, once transported to the 18th century, caught up in the foredoomed struggle. The battle figures in the 29th episode (Season 2, episode 13) of the [[Starz|STARZ]] series ''[[Outlander (TV series)|Outlander]]'', based upon Gabaldon's series of books. The battle and its importance to Scottish history is alluded to many times in the books and throughout the TV series. * ''[[The Highlanders (Doctor Who)|The Highlanders]]'' (1966β1967) is a serial in the BBC science fiction television series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The time-traveller known as [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]] and his [[Companion (Doctor Who)|companions]] [[Polly (Doctor Who)|Polly]] and [[Ben Jackson (Doctor Who)|Ben]] arrive in the [[TARDIS]] in 1746, hours after the Battle of Culloden. The story introduces the character of [[Jamie McCrimmon]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 October 2014 |title=The Highlanders |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/photonovels/highlanders/ |access-date=16 March 2022 |website=[[BBC]]}}</ref> * ''[[Chasing the Deer]]'' (1994) is a cinematic dramatisation of the events leading up to the battle, starring [[Brian Blessed]] and [[Fish (singer)|Fish]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chasing the Deer (1994) |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/chasing-the-deer-v134003 |access-date=16 March 2022 |website=[[AllMovie]]}}</ref> * ''Drummossie Moor β Jack Cameron, The Irish Brigade and the battle of Culloden'' is a historical novel by Ian Colquhoun (Arima/Swirl 2008) that tells the story of the battle and the preceding days from the point of view of the Franco-Irish regulars, or 'Piquets', who covered the Jacobite retreat.<ref>{{cite book |title=Drummossie Moor β Jack Cameron, The Irish Brigade and the Battle of Culloden |first=Ian |last=Colquhoun |isbn=978-1-84549-281-6 |year=2008 |publisher=Swirl }}</ref> * In [[Harold Coyle]]'s novel ''Savage Wilderness'', the opening chapter deals with the protagonist's service battle of Culloden. * In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''[[Home Is the Hunter]]'', [[Montgomery Scott]] is sent back in time to 18th-century Scotland by an alien angered over the death of a child, and he participates in the Battle of Culloden before he is returned to the 23rd century. * The Portuguese author [[HΓ©lia Correia]] opens her novel ''Lillias Fraser'' (2001) in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden. The work was praised by national critics when it came out and eventually won the PEN Club Fiction Award. * The Canadian novel ''[[No Great Mischief]]'', by [[Alistair MacLeod]], dealing with a Scottish family that emigrated to Canada after the Battle of Culloden and examining how their past influences their present, contains numerous references to the battle.
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