by Catherine Bradley | Jun 6, 2026 | Latest News
From Discovery to Preservation Hidden beneath floorboards, tucked away in storage, or too fragile to handle, the artefacts of Bannockburn House each hold a piece of the story. Now, through our new digital archive, these objects from a 1630s wax seal to Scotland’s...
by Catherine Bradley | May 7, 2026 | Latest News
Sir Hugh Paterson, 3rd Baronet & The Elections of 1708-15 By Andrew Colquhoun The loyalties of Sir Hugh Paterson, 3rd Baronet and laird of Bannockburn House, were to the exiled House of Stuart. Politics in early eighteenth-century Scotland was rent by sharp...
by Catherine Bradley | Mar 29, 2026 | Conservation, Gardens, History, Latest News
March Brings Breezes Loud and Shrill, Stirs the Dancing Daffodil The first daffodils are always such a welcome sight, a flower of renewal and rebirth. They are impossible to ignore as the neon-yellow-ness of the bobbing flower pierces through any shrubbery, dreary...
by Catherine Bradley | Feb 4, 2026 | History, Latest News
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Bannockburn, Stirling – [4 February 2026] Researchers at Bannockburn House have identified new evidence in the suspected assassination attempt on Bonnie Prince Charlie during his stay in January 1746. A lead ball consistent with 18th century...
by Catherine Bradley | Jan 22, 2026 | Events, History, Latest News, Uncategorized
Possets, Princes, & A Proper Bannockburn House Night In… Winter has always had a way of creeping into the bones. Long before central heating, antibiotics, or the luxury of staying home with a hot water bottle, people in the 17th and 18th centuries...
by marketing | Mar 3, 2025 | Gardens, Latest News
Five years ago we planted The Shelter Belt, a mini woodland and hedgerow all along the eastern-most perimeter of the gardens where we are bounded by open farmland. The east wind is dry and bitterly cold in winter-time, so we had to prioritise the creation of a...
