A brilliant discussion on the many twists and turns of tartan, involving an Englishman, rebellions, monarchs and our very own Lord Mungo Murray. Join Rebecca Quinton, Glasgow Museums' Research Manager for Art and Dr Sally Tuckett, Lecturer in History of Art at University of Glasgow as they go a journey.

This episode of the Glasgow Museums podcast was recorded August 2020 via Zoom.

07:00 - Description of the painting and the practicalities and status of Highland dress and plaid, use of painting for dress historians07:00 - 10:00 - How to style a huge piece of tartan plaid10.15 - 14.00 - How kilts came to be14:00 - 19:00 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite Army and the influence and rebellion of plaid 19:00 - 24:00 - The politics and banning of Highland dress24:00 - 26:00 - Military use of tartan and how it became a symbol of the Empire26:00 - 31:00 - Tartan manufacturers, commercialisation and clan tartans31:00 - 34:00 - Protection of Highland identity and organisation and registering of of clan patterns34:00 - 42:00 - George IV’s Royal visit to Edinburgh in 1822 and the beginnings of tartan becoming fashionable

A Highland Chieftain: Portrait of Lord Mungo Murray (c.1683) by John Michael Wright, was purchased in 2019 thanks to the generous support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Art Fund, Friends of Glasgow Museums and National Fund for Acquisitions.

Links Lord Mungo Murray, John Michael Wright, Glasgow Museumshttps://bit.ly/2G2vc0r

National Lottery Heritage Fundwww.heritagefund.org.uk

Art Fundhttps://www.artfund.org/

National Fund for Acquisitionshttps://www.nms.ac.uk/about-us/services-and-expertise/national-fund-for-acquisitions/

The Tartan Register https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/index

Act of Proscriptionhttp://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan/the-growth-of-tartan/the-act-of-proscription-1747/

The Highland Society of Londonhttp://highlandsocietyoflondon.org

George IV (1762-1830) by Sir David Wilkie (1745 - 1841, Royal Collection)https://bit.ly/2Huu0Ub

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