Jacobite Correspondence of the Atholl Family
Author : John Hill Burton
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John Hill Burton
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Pittock Murray Pittock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Clans
ISBN : 1474471684
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in The Economist and Scotland on Sunday, on Radio Scotland and elsewhere. The argument of the book has been widely accepted, although it is still ignored by media and heritage representations which seek to depoliticise the Rising of 1745.Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this new expanded second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years.
Author : Rosalind Anderson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526727641
Based in Perthshire, the Murray family played an important role in all Jacobite rebellions, whether as rebels or supporters of the government. During the Great Rising of 1715, the head of the family the Duke of Atholl remained loyal to the Hanoverian government but three of his sons were Jacobites. Two of these brothers then went on to play major roles in the 1719 Rising and in the more famous '45. What led to their decision to commit to the Jacobite cause? A look at the earlier years of the Murrays at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries sheds light on the family dynamics and helps explain how and why the brothers made the decisions they did. Traditionally the Murrays were thought to have perhaps made a conscious and pragmatic decision to have a foot in both camps, but the evidence presented here shows the brothers possessed a strong rebellious streak. Despite the heavily enforced regime of duty from their father and the Presbyterian piety of their mother, they refused to conform to their parents’ wishes and in varying degrees chose of their own volition, a different path to that expected of them. Set against the backdrop of social unrest and anxiety over against English influence in Scotland, these choices had a significant impact on the history of the family and because of who that family was, a significant impact on the country.
Author : A.T. Thomson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732629821
Reproduction of the original.
Author : David Laing
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2024-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368742353
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Author : Spalding Club (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : Spalding Club, Aberdeen
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : James Thomson
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1846
Category :
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Author : Katherine Thomson
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1846
Category :
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Author : Byerley Thomson
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1715
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