This post has been written for us by Ralph Stevens, Jacobite Studies Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the IHR, @HistoryRalph, ralph.stevens@ucd.ie This coming September will mark the three-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, the...
Drawing of Edward Waverleyfrom Sir Walter Scott’sWaverley books. The Jacobite rising of 1745 was one of the last in a series of rebellions aimed at returning the descendants of the House of Stuart to the throne. Although for a while Charles Edward Stuart...