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Introduction: Living with Jacobitism

Allan I. MacInnes
Affiliation:
University of Strathclyde
Lesley Graham
Affiliation:
Université de Bordeaux
Kieran German
Affiliation:
University of Strathclyde
Allan I. Macinnes
Affiliation:
University of Strathclyde
Kieran German
Affiliation:
University of Strathclyde
Lesley Graham
Affiliation:
University of Bordeaux 2
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In the summer of 1746, the Reverend Zachary MacAulay zealously assisted British forces searching on the island of Lewis for the fugitive Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Prince decried by Whigs as the Young Pretender. Prince Charles escaped from Lewis unscathed, but Reverend MacAulay was forced off the island by parishioners disaffected by his Whig partisanship. A century later, his grandson Thomas Babington Macaulay brought cohesion, clarity and intellectual rigour to the Whig ideological perspective on the Revolution of 1689–91. The removal of James II and VII, the grandfather of Prince Charles, in favour of William of Orange, was resolutely presented as the triumph of Protestantism, property and progress. A historiographical tradition was thus firmly established that endured for most of the twentieth century. Jacobitism was treated dismissively. The principled commitment of the Jacobite supporters of the exiled house of Stuart was also belittled from an Anglocentric perspective. Irish and Scottish Jacobites died in considerable numbers during the Revolution deemed ‘Glorious’ by Whig historiography. Even though many more Scots and a few English died in the major rising of 1715–16 (hereafter the '15) and Scottish Highlanders in particular were brutalized in the aftermath of the last major rising in 1745–6 (hereafter the'45), the impact of Jacobitism was deemed peripheral to British state formation and global aspirations.

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Living with Jacobitism, 1690–1788
The Three Kingdoms and Beyond
, pp. 1 - 10
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
First published in: 2014

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