Results 31 to 40 of about 1,029 (199)
Sweden and the Jacobite movement (1715-1718) [PDF]
Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2010 During the second decade of the century of the Enlightenment, a short interesting episode occurred between the Kingdoms of Britain, Sweden and the Russian Empire.
Costel Coroban
doaj
Études Écossaises, 2011 As part of the mission to promote the Anglo-Scottish Union (1707) which had been entrusted to him by Robert Harley, Defoe wrote several works, including six Essays at Removing National Prejudices against a Union.
Yannick Deschamps
doaj +1 more source
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
wiley +1 more source
A Fortress Untaken: The Jacobite Attempt on Edinburgh Castle, 1715
Journal of Irish and Scottish StudiesThe Jacobite rising of 1715–16 is often viewed by historians and in the popular imagination as beginning as a Highland revolt with little or no support from Scottish urban centres.
Calum Cunningham
doaj +2 more sources
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley +1 more source
Contemporary European Politics, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT EU Structural Funds have played a major part in the Northern Ireland peace process, with over £2.3 billion pounds being channelled through programmes such as the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and, from 1995, the successive ‘PEACE’ programmes (Special Support Programmes for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland).
Charlotte Barcat
wiley +1 more source
The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 199-215, June 2025.Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
wiley +1 more source
Gods and Monsters: Classical Allusion and the Jacobites [PDF]
The myths and legends of the classical world provided a wealth of material that Scottish Jacobites exploited to signal support for, and spread messages about, the exiled Stuarts.
Cunningham, Calum Edward +1 more
core +2 more sources
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 125-148, March 2025.Abstract This article examines the dress of female civic rights activist Théroigne de Méricourt and its political significance in Revolutionary Paris. The first section discusses the symbolism of her iconic scarlet riding habit. The second section explores the role of equestrian fashions in Théroigne's strategy of self‐fashioning as a political actor ...
Valerio Zanetti
wiley +1 more source
Allan's A‐list: The Subscription List to Allan Ramsay's Poems of 1721
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 3-28, March 2025.Abstract The new and first complete edition of the works of Allan Ramsay (1684–1758) in six volumes is beginning to draw renewed attention towards this important poet. This essay examines one of the key unexamined puzzles of his career: how an Edinburgh wigmaker apparently without any advantage of birth and connexions succeeded in gathering an ...
Murray Pittock
wiley +1 more source