Suggested Reading
Top Ten Books on Jacobitism
Duffy, Christopher, The ’45 (London, 2003)
Hopkins, Paul, Glencoe and the End of the Highland War (revised repr., Edinburgh, 1998)
McLynn, Frank, Charles Edward Stuart. A Tragedy in Many Acts (London, 1988)
Paul Kléber Monod, Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 (London, 1989)
Ó Ciardha, Éamonn, Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766. A Fatal Attachment (Dublin, 2002)
Miller, John, James II. A Study in Kingship (Hove, 1978)
Morley, Vincent, The Popular Mind in Eighteenth-century Ireland (Cork, 2017)
Pittock, Murray, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans (2nd edn, Edinburgh, 2009)
Szechi, Daniel, 1715: the Great Jacobite Rebellion (London, 2006)
Szechi, Daniel, The Jacobites. Britain and Europe 1688-1788 (2nd edn, Manchester, 2019)
Top Twenty Articles on Jacobitism
Bruce, Maurice, ‘Jacobite relations with Peter the Great’, Slavonic Review, xiv (1935-6) 343-62
Clark, Jonathan C. D., ‘The Cultural Identity of Samuel Johnson’, The Age of Johnson, 8 (1997) 15-70
Craig, Maggie, ‘The Fair Sex Turns Ugly: Female Involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745’, in Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson (eds), Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland since 1400 (East Linton, 2002), pp. 84-100
Dickson, David, ‘Jacobitism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: A Munster Perspective’, Éire-Ireland, 39 (2004) 38-99
Fox, E. T., ‘Jacobitism and the “Golden Age” of Piracy, 1715-1725’, International Journal of Maritime History, xxii (2010) , 277-303
Glickman, Gabriel, ‘The Career of Sir John Hynde Cotton (1686-1752)’, Historical Journal, 46 (2003) 817-41
Gregg, Edward, ‘Was Queen Anne a Jacobite?’, History, lvii (1972) 358-375
Stephen, Jeffrey, ‘Scottish Nationalism and Stuart Unionism: the Edinburgh Council, 1745’, Journal of British Studies, 49 (2010) 47-72
Jenkins, J. P., ‘Jacobites and Freemasons in Eighteenth Century Wales’, Welsh Historical Review, ix (1979) 391-406
Knights, Mark, ‘Uncovering a Jacobite Whig? The Commonwealth Principles of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington’, Parliamentary History, 28 (2009) 59-87
Leighton, C. D. A., ‘The Non-Jurors and their History’, Journal of Religious History, 29 (2005) 241-57
Lenman, Bruce, ‘The Scottish Episcopal Clergy and the Ideology of Jacobitism’, in Eveline Cruickshanks (ed.), Ideology and Conspiracy. Aspects of Jacobitism, 1689-1759 (Edinburgh, 1982), pp. 36-48
Macinnes, Allan I., ‘Jacobitism in Scotland: Episodic Cause or National Movement?’, Scottish Historical Review, 86 (2007) 225-252
Murdoch, Steve, ‘Tilting at Windmills: the Order del Toboso as a Jacobite Social Network’, in Paul Kléber Monod, Murray Pittock and Daniel Szechi (eds), Loyalty and Identity. Jacobites at Home and Abroad (Basingstoke, 2010), pp. 243-64
Ó Buachalla, Breandán, ‘James Our True King: the Ideology of Irish Royalism’, in G. Boyce, R. Eccleshall and V. Geoghegan (eds), Political Thought in Ireland since the Seventeenth
Century (1993), pp. 7-35
Parrish, David, ‘“Now the mask is taken off”: Jacobitism and Colonial New England, 1702–27’, Historical Research, 88 (2015) 249-271
Pittock, Murray, ‘Treacherous Objects: Towards a Theory of Jacobite Material Culture’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34 (2011) 39-63
Sankey, Margaret and Daniel Szechi, ‘Elite Culture and the Decline of Scottish Jacobitism 1716-1745’, Past and Present, no. 173 (2001) 90-128
Szechi, Daniel, ‘The Jacobite Revolution Settlement, 1689-1696’, English Historical Review, cviii (1993), 610-28
Szechi, Daniel, ‘Constructing a Jacobite: the Social and Intellectual Origins of George Lockhart of Carnwath’, Historical Journal, 40 (1997) 977-996
Suggestions by Dr Daniel Szechi, author of ‘The Jacobites’ and academic advisor to The Jacobite Trail.
Dr Szechi also holds the following positions:
Emeritus Professor in Early Modern History, University of Manchester
Honorary Professor of History, University of Aberdeen
Emeritus Professor of History, Auburn University, Alabama