Taking Sides
John Mullan: On the high road with Bonnie Prince Charlie, 22 January 2004
The ’45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising
by Christopher Duffy.
Cassell, 639 pp., £20, March 2003,0 304 35525 9 Show More
by Christopher Duffy.
Cassell, 639 pp., £20, March 2003,
Samuel Johnson in Historical Context
edited by J.C.D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill.
Palgrave, 336 pp., £55, December 2001,0 333 80447 3 Show More
edited by J.C.D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill.
Palgrave, 336 pp., £55, December 2001,
“... religious history, of Jacobitism and the previous abortive attempts to restore the descendants of James II to the throne. Instead we go straight into a military encounter, the Battle of Prestonpans, on 21 September 1745. ‘Two armies were moving to contact in the country to the east of Edinburgh’ is the book’s first ... ”