The Myth of the Jacobite Clans

By Murray Pittock,

Book cover of The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745

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The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher…

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This is one of the most important books on Jacobitism written in the last 30 years, and I am not recommending it simply because he is a personal friend! 

The book completely debunks the commonplace image of the Jacobite army as a purely clan phenomenon. Pittock proves it was a truly national Scottish army, drawn from almost every community in Scotland, with strong international connections and elements. 

Lowlanders served alongside Highlanders and a smattering of Irishmen and Englishmen in regiments with clan names but an increasingly professional military outlook. By doing so he permanently moves our understanding of the most…

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