Lochaber Archive Centre was recently visited by 49 pupils from Lundavra Primary School who were studying the Jacobites. Community Engagement Officer Lorna Steele and Archive Assistant Fiona MacKenzie told the pupils about the Jacobites using original documents from the Cameron of Locheil collection. Based on a cypher used by the Jacobites, the pupils made their own codes and cyphers by deciding what things were important enough to them to protect and making up code words for those things. They also heard a contemporary document about the capture of Bonnie Prince Charlie read aloud and created newspaper reports and pictures based on it.
Lorna and Fiona were delighted to recieve thank you letters from the pupils in the weeks after their visit. One of the letters said “Thank you for letting us come…I had a blast. This topic is one of my favourite things in school. We made our own picture of Bonnie Prince Charlie, also we made our own code writing. I was amazed. It was so so fun! It was so much knowledge I learnt. Thank you for having us, I had the best school trip ever.”
