Last month we drew your attention to some recent events around the Bicentenary of the 1820 Rebellion. after which three men were executed and many more deported to Australia for treason. One of them was James ‘Purlie’ Wilson :

Since then one of our members Mary McCabe has written and featured in an excellent video about the events of 1820 for Glasgow Open Doors Digital Festival. That video then became the basis of a zoom discussion led by Mary for around the thirty of us who tuned in. One person who zoomed in was a descendant of one of the rebels who was deported to Australia!

Here is Mary’s video:

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