OUTLANDER EDINBURGH WALKING TOUR: A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Visit Outlander filming locations from season 3 (including for Carfax Close) as well as some of the palaces, pubs, jails and closes visited by Claire and Jamie in the books Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager.

Just as importantly, though, this tour will explore the history behind the show and series of novels. Find out who the Jacobites were, how Scotland’s capital was impacted by the Jacobite occupation of 1745 and what it was actually like to live in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. You will also discover the significant influence that Scottish writers would come to have in also romanticizing this part of our history and by extension even influence how Scots saw ourselves and the wider world saw us.

Your tour will be led by an experienced guide with a PhD in eighteenth-century Scottish history. The success of the Outlander franchise has been extraordinary and although (like all pieces of historical fiction) dramatic license has been taken, I find it can be an excellent starting point for people to engage with my country’s entirely unique history and culture.

*Inspired by the works of Diana Gabaldon.