Realm of Coyness
Colin Kidd, 9 July 2026
A Spy amongst Us: Daniel Defoe’s Secret Service and the Plotto End Scottish Independence
by Marc Mierowsky.
Yale, 416 pp., £25, February,978 0 300 26016 8 Show More
by Marc Mierowsky.
Yale, 416 pp., £25, February,
Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond
by Allan I. MacInnes.
Reaktion, 272 pp., £25, August 2025,978 1 83639 093 0 Show More
by Allan I. MacInnes.
Reaktion, 272 pp., £25, August 2025,
“... The defining characteristics of our political system – a parliamentary monarchy in a union-state – emerged in the course of two fraught decades at the turn of the 18th century, between the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland in 1707 ... ”
