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Jacobite Risings

1689–1746 CE

The Jacobite Risings were a series of attempts to restore the deposed Stuart dynasty after the Glorious Revolution. Although they began before the Georgian period, their most famous later phases directly challenged the Hanoverian monarchy. The risings drew support from parts of Scotland, Ireland, England and continental Europe.

Jacobitism combined dynastic loyalty, religious politics, local grievance and romanticised kingship. The failure of the rising of 1745 ended serious hopes of a Stuart restoration and changed Highland society profoundly. Repression, forfeited estates and cultural disruption followed the final defeat.

Jacobite fiction has a strong literary tradition, from Walter Scott’s Waverley to D. K. Broster’s Jacobite trilogy and Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. These stories use divided loyalties, exile, clan politics and doomed causes as emotional engines. The period is especially strong for series built around family allegiance, secret correspondence, Highland landscapes and the aftermath of defeat.

Related people for Jacobite Risings

Anne of Great Britain1665–1714 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852 Caroline of Ansbach1683–1737 Charles Edward Stuart1720–1788 George III1738–1820 George II of Great Britain1683–1760 George I of Great Britain1660–1727 George IV of the United Kingdom1762–1830 Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolkc. 1688–1767 Hyder Ali1720–1782 John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee1648–1689 Louis XIV1638–1715 Louis XV of France1710–1774 Napoleon1769–1821 Prince William, Duke of Cumberland1721–1765 Rob Roy MacGregor1671–1734 Tipu Sultan1751–1799 William Wordsworth1770–1850

Series

Series about Jacobite Risings (1 series)

Waverley Novels in Order

by Sir Walter Scott 8 books 3.8(119,678)

The Waverley Novels are Walter Scott’s long sequence of historical romances, named after the anonymously published Waverley of 1814. The series moves across Scottish, English and continental European history, placing fictional protagonists between older systems of loyalty and the political, commercial and legal institutions replacing them. Scott’s characters…

Books

24 Best Novels About the Jacobite Risings

Non-Fiction

3 Best Non-Fiction Books About the Jacobite Risings

Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.