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Britain in its beginnings and in the most successful period of its development was fundamentally a state founded on foreign policy and external success. Internally, it originally lacked the integrity of identity which the main island (and even to some extent Ireland) was to possess in its heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The invading Angles drew back from Scotland after the Picts defeated the Northumbrians at Dunnichen Moss in 685; a century later, Offa’s Dyke demarcated the border with Wales; a hundred years more, and the Scots-Irish kingdom of Dalriada established a Scottish national monarchy within a few years of the similar achievement of Egbert of Wessex in the south.
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Cf. Daniel Szechi and David Hayton’s essay, ‘John Bull’s Other Kingdoms’, in Clyve Jones (ed.), Britain in the First Age of Party 1680–1750 (London and Ronceverte, 1987).
Murray G. H. Pittock, The Myth of the Jacobite Clam (Edinburgh, 1995), p. 25.
John Kenyon, The History Men (London, 1983), p. 155 and passim.
Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People (Oxford, 1989), p. 197; the phrase is Jeremy Black’s.
A. D. Innes, A History of the British Nation From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (London and Edinburgh, 1912), p. 601.
Cf. Murray G. H. Pittock, The Invention of Scotland (London and New York, 1991), pp. 120 ff.
For a recent discussion of Episcopalian Nonjurors and their impact on Tractarianism, see Peter Nockles, ‘“Our Brethren of the North”: The Scottish Episcopal Church and the Oxford Movement’, Journal of Ecdesiastical History(1996), 655–82.
Cf. Sir Charles Petrie, If: a Jacobite Fantasy’, which first appeared in The Weekly Westminster for 30 January 1926, and thereafter in The Jacobite Movement: the Last Phase, revised edn (London, 1950).
Eveline Cruickshanks, writing in Romney Sedgwick (ed.), The History of Parliament.: the House of Commons 1715–1754, 2 vols. (London, 1970), I: 62–78.
Cf. Ian Christie, The Tory Party, Jacobitism and the ‘Forty-Five: A Note’, Historical Journal, 30: 4 (1987), 921–31.
Cf. E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters(Harmondsworth, 1975).
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Cf. also Clark’s essay, ‘On Moving the Middle Ground: the Significance of Jacobitism in Historical Studies’ in Eveline Cruickshanks and Jeremy Black (eds.), The Jacobite Challenge (Edinburgh, 1988).
Cf. Elizabeth Carmichael, ‘Jacobitism in the Scottish Commission of the Peace, 1707–1760’, Scottish Historical Review, 58 (1979), 58–69.
Daniel Szechi, ‘Mythhistory versus History: the Fading of the Revolution of 1688’, Historical Journal, 33:1 (1990), 143–54 (143).
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Pittock, M.G.H. (1998). Introduction. In: Jacobitism. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26908-2_1
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