Bare-Arsed Banditti

''Deftly told'' The Herald

They were modern men, the soldiers of the ''45: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, gardeners and weavers. These are the men often written out of history, or else depicted as gallant but misguided fools.

But in reality they were children of the Age of Reason, they wrote poetry, discussed the latest ideas in philosophy and science - and rose in armed rebellion aga...