Patriotic Scots, disgruntled Britons, scheming European nations - all got involved in the Jacobite cause. The uprisings gave rise to episodes of great bravery as well of tactical mistakes, and have ...

Jacobitism has been written about as much by the historians as it has by the poets, and the Scottish historian Allan I. MacInnes is hardly unaware of the challenge he is setting himself in making a ...

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, published continually since 1872, comprises the papers read before the leading learned society for historians in the United Kingdom. The papers cover ...

The sudden death of the author Hugh Douglas, while on holiday in Venice, ends the career of a prolific late starter. Douglas was born in Minishant, a village south of Ayr with strong Robert Burns ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract George Lockhart of Carnwath is best known for his bitter denunciation of the Anglo-Scottish Union in his Memoirs concerning the affairs of ...

The romanticism of Jacobites should not obscure the threat they posed to the British Army in the years following the Battle of Culloden, a leading historian has said. Did you know with a Digital ...

Professor Leith Davis is co-ordinating a collaborative project with Kevin James and the University of Guelph's Centre for Scottish Studies on Networking Jacobites from 1688 to the present. Papers ...

Anne McElvoy presents. Peter Mackay discusses an exhibition about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites, and Dennis Duncan talks about indexes and exposing Jacobite sympathisers. Show more Essayist ...

In popular memory Jacobitism means the ’45, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the retreat from Derby, Culloden and the flight through the heather. Even the ’15 is barely remembered. There is also an assumption ...

Patriotic Scots, disgruntled Britons, scheming European nations - all got involved in the Jacobite cause. The uprisings gave rise to episodes of great bravery as well of tactical mistakes, and have ...

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