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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
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Lionel Munby, Marxism, and Local History
History, Volume 110, Issue 389, Page 88-111, January 2025.Abstract A member of the Communist Party for thirty‐four years, and a key participant in the post‐War Communist Party Historians’ Group, Lionel Munby (1918–2009) is not among that Group's best‐known historians. Yet arguably he was more typical of its membership and outlook.
MARK GOLDIE
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Tory Travails and Collegiate Confusion: The Oxford University Election of 1722*
Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 72-90, February 2024.Abstract In terms of the unreformed franchise operative in the early 18th century, the University of Oxford made up an unusual parliamentary constituency. Here it was the votes of non‐resident members that could be decisive to the outcome if the seat was contested.
Nigel Aston
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Journal of Irish and Scottish StudiesThis article compares and contrasts the activities of George Keith, 10th earl Marischal and Count Owen O’Rourke. During the 1730s both men served as diplomatic agents to James VIII and III, the Jacobite claimant to the British and Irish thrones.
Stephen Griffin
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Pittite Triumph and Whig Failure in the Cambridge University Constituency, 1780–96*
Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 91-111, February 2024.Abstract Cambridge University has been featured in a wide range of studies of the long 18th century, but few have focused exclusively on the dynamics behind its politics. This is surprising since many of the Cambridge University electors were close to leading parliamentarians.
David Cowan
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Literary Jacobitism: the writing of Jane Barker, Mary Caesar and Anne Finch [PDF]
, 2016 This thesis argues that much of the gender based criticism that has led to the "rediscovery" of neglected early modern women writers has, paradoxically, also served to limit our understanding of such writers by distracting attention from other aspects of
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A Collection of Loyal Songs: Songs as Spaces of Memory
Études ÉcossaisesIn 1750, four years after the Battle of Culloden, Edinburgh printer Robert Fleming distributed the Jacobite songbook A Collection of Loyal Songs, Poems, &c.
Kristel van Soeren
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Britain's fiscal‐military state in the eighteenth century: Recent trends in historiography
History Compass, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2024.Abstract John Brewer's argument that eighteenth‐century Britain developed a centralized and effective fiscal‐military state that allowed it to become a great power has been instrumental in making early modern state‐building an important field of inquiry for historians.
Robin Ganev
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'A Thorn in Their Side': Trends in British Punishment during the Long Eighteenth Century and the Crime of Jacobitism, 1688-c.1815 [PDF]
, 2021 This article appears to be the first academic attempt to discuss the crime of Jacobitism as a focal point amongst the various trends in British punishment during the long eighteenth century.
Cunningham, Calum E
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Charlwood Lawton, Latitudinarianism, and Ecumenical Toleration in English Jacobitism, 1689–1721
Journal of Irish and Scottish StudiesThis article analyses the writings and correspondence of an influential English Whig Jacobite, Charlwood Lawton (1659–1721). Lawton was a prolific author of Jacobite propaganda during the 1690s, with eighteen Jacobite books and pamphlets attributed to ...
Michael Ray Taylor
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