History Scotland

A rich record of Jacobite culture

Elsewhere in this issue we have seen how classical allusions and classical mythology could be enlisted in support of the exiled Stuart monarchs. ‘Cultural Jacobitism’, as it is now called, is increasingly being studied by contemporary historians, but as a discipline it has a long history reaching back into the years immediately after the 1745 rebellion itself. One of its first,

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