This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.

PAUL MONOD  is Barton Hepburn Professor of History at Middlebury College, Vermont. He has published books on a variety of subjects in British and European history, including Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837. He is now working on the role of the occult in the British Enlightenment.

MURRAY PITTOCK  is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His work on Jacobitism and Romanticism (most recently The Myth of the Jacobite Clans, 2nd edition, 2009) has a leading edge international profile. Professor Pittock is currently working on a study of material culture and sedition in the eighteenth century.

DANIEL SZECHI  is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. His books include: 1715. The Great Jacobite Rebellion and George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727: a Study in Jacobitism. He is currently working on the Scots Jacobite attempt to overthrow the Union in 1708.

Preface: Eveline Cruickshanks, an Appreciation; H.Erskine-Hill Introduction: Loyalty and Identity; P.K.Monod , M.G.H.Pittock & D.Szechi The Many Restorations of King James: a Short History of Scholarship on Jacobitism, 1688-2006; J.C.D.Clark 'A lot done, more to do': the Restoration and Road Ahead for Irish Jacobite Studies; É.Ó Ciardha Jacobite Politics in Aberdeen and the '15; K.German Retrieving Captain Le Cocq's Plunder: Plebeian Scots and the Aftermath of the 1715 Rebellion; D. Szechi Hidden Sympathies: the Hessians in Scotland 1746; C.Duffy Thomas Carte, the Druids and British National Identity; P.K.Monod Jonathan Swift and Charles Leslie; I.Higgins 'Our Common Mother, the Church of England': Nonjurors, High Churchmen and the Evidence of Subscription Lists; R.Sharp The Location of the Stuart Court in Rome: the Palazzo Del Re ; E.Corp The Irish Jacobite Regiments and the French Army: a Way to Integration; N.Genet-Rouffiac The Influence of the Jacobites on the Economic Development of France in the Era of the Enlightenment; P.Clarke de Dromantin Tilting at Windmills: the Order del Toboso as a Jacobite Social Network; S.Murdoch