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Jacobitism and the British Atlantic world in the age of Anne [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis demonstrates the existence and significance of Jacobitism in the British Atlantic World, c. 1688-1727. Throughout the period under investigation, colonists were increasingly integrated into Britain’s partisan politics, religious controversies,
Parrish, David
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Parliamentary History, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 309-347, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Underground movements are understandably reluctant to record the names and numbers of their adherents because any such compilation is manifestly a hostage to fortune. Hence very few lists of politically active Jacobites actually compiled by the Jacobites themselves have survived to the present day. In the French foreign ministry archives at La
Daniel Szechi, Christopher A. Whatley
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Robert Harley as Secretary of State and his Intelligence Work: 1702–1708
History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 328-352, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article seeks to reassess Robert Harley's role as Secretary of State (1704–10) and especially his work in the intelligence and espionage fields of his day. It examines not only his reputation in such affairs but his skills and techniques in early eighteenth‐century espionage, and also his failures. It sets out the important administrative
ALAN MARSHALL
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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth‐century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject‐areas: non‐elite readers of classical ...
Ian Calvert
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(Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III
Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 83-104, February 2022., 2022 Abstract During the late 17th and early 18th centuries a number of German governments received regular updates on English politics from London‐based intelligencers. This article examines and compares two sets of these reports from the year 1694, composed by Guillaume Beyrie and Frédéric Bonnet for the Guelph courts in Celle and Hanover and the Prussian
Michael Schaich
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Wodrow's News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th‐Century Scotland*
Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 135-149, February 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the creation and consumption of scribal news by the early 18th‐century Scottish Presbyterian minister Robert Wodrow (1679–1734). It argues that Scottish news culture depended on the interaction of printed newspapers, professionally produced newsletters from London, personal letters and oral communication.
Alasdair Raffe
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Living with Jacobitism, 1690-1788 : The Three Kingdoms and Beyond
, 2014 An interdisciplinary study of Jacobitism. For over seventy years after the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688–90, Jacobitism survived in the face of Whig propaganda.
Graham, Lesley +2 more
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Introduction : living with Jacobitism
, 2014 Interdisciplinary approaches to Jacobitism and anti ...
Graham, Lesley +2 more
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Introduction : identity, mobility and competing patriotisms
, 2014 Introduction to collection of essays on Jacobitism, Enlightenment and ...
MacInnes, Allan +3 more
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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
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