Jacobites by Jacqueline Riding
The dramatic story of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his quixotic attempt to regain the throne of England.
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James I) crown--remains the stuff of legend: the hunted fugitive, Flora MacDonald, and the dramatic escape over the sea to the Isle of Skye. But the full story--the real history--is even more dramatic, captivating, and revelatory. Much more than a single rebellion, the events of 1745 were part of an ongoing civil war that threatened to destabilize the British nation and its empire. The Bonnie Prince and his army alone could not have posed a great threat. But with the involvement of Britain's perennial enemy, Catholic France, it was a far more dangerous and potentially catastrophic situation for the British crown. With encouragement and support from Louis XV, Charles's triumphant Jacobite army advanced all the way to Derby, a mere 120 miles from London, before a series of missteps ultimately doomed the rebellion to crushing defeat and annihilation at Culloden in April 1746--the last battle ever fought on British soil. Jacqueline Riding conveys the full weight of these monumental years of English and Scottish history as the future course of Great Britain as a united nation was irreversibly altered.Dr. Jacqueline Riding specializes in British history and art from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She studied history and art history at the universities of Leicester, London, and York, and has worked as a curator and consultant at a variety of museums, galleries, and historic institutions, including the Guards Museum, Tate Britain, and Historic Royal Palaces, over the past twenty-five years. She worked as an Assistant Curator at the Palace of Westminster from 1993 to 1999 before becoming the founding Director of the Handel House Museum in London. Houses of Parliament: History, Art, and Architecture (2000) is one of her works. She worked as a consulting historian and art historian on Mike Leigh's award-winning Turner (2014) and is now working as a consultant historian on Peterloo, his next feature film. Jacqueline Riding is a South London-based Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London's School of Arts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781608198016 |
| ISBN 10 | 1608198014 |
| Title | Jacobites |
| Author | Jacqueline Riding |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2016-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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