Elite Culture and the Decline of Scottish Jacobitism 1716-1745

Sankey, Margaret

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“…'In such circumstances,' they write, 'it is not surprising to find that the power to command their tenants traditionally enjoyed by the heritors of the north-eastern Lowlands was considerably enhanced', allowing them to 'maintain a role more associated with landownership in previous centuries'. 22 Where 'the protective aspect of land-ownership was increasingly being abandoned in favour of strictly economic relations' in other parts of Scotland outside of the Highlands, 'this change was slower in coming in the north-eastern Lowlands'. 23 It should be noted, however, that such relations between heritors and their tenants in the region did not preclude local efforts of agricultural improvement in the second half of the eighteenth century, as discussed later in this article.…”

Section: The Background To Commercial Improvement In the Northeastmentioning

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From Rebellion to Reform: Representations of Regional and Civic Improvement in the Aberdeen Journal, 1747–85

Benchimol¹

2021

Northern Scotland

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The role of the Aberdeen Journal in facilitating the commercial modernization of Aberdeen and the northeast of Scotland in the four decades after the Battle of Culloden is an understudied aspect of the city's and region's social, economic and cultural history. This article examines the way improvement initiatives from key regional and civic stakeholders like the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland, the Aberdeenshire Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Manufactures, the Commissioners of Supply, Aberdeen Town Council, and Marischal College were represented in the newspaper. In particular it highlights how James Chalmers 2 and James Chalmers 3—the Aberdeen Journal's proprietors during its first forty years—developed Scotland's first newspaper north of Edinburgh as an informational hub to integrate the city and region into key currents of Scottish and British capitalist modernization in the second half of the eighteenth century, from linen manufacturing and processing, to land reform and agricultural improvement. The social and economic transformation facilitated by the newspaper led to demands for political reform by those new commercial stakeholders, like John Ewen and Patrick Barron, who had profited from this regional modernization, and the article argues that the Aberdeen burgh reform movement of the early 1780s that utilized the Aberdeen Journal as a principal periodical platform was an essential consequence of this trajectory of regional and civic improvement, and a key test for translating it into a tangible expansion of democratic rights.

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From Rebellion to Reform: Representations of Regional and Civic Improvement in the Aberdeen Journal, 1747–85

Benchimol¹

2021

Northern Scotland

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“…14 14 Daniel Szechi, “`Cam Ye O’er Frae France?’ Exile and the Mind of Scottish Jacobitism, 1716–1727,” Journal of British Studies , 37, 4 (1998), pp. 357–90; Margaret Sankey and Daniel Szechi, “Elite Culture and the Decline of Scottish Jacobitism,” Past and Present , 173 (2001), pp. 90–128; Daniel Szechi, George Lockhart of Carnwath, 1689–1727: A Study in Jacobitism (East Linton, East Lothian, 2002). …”

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A Restoration? 25 years of Jacobite Studies

Monod

2013

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The past quarter‐century has seen an efflorescence of studies of Jacobitism, within both political and cultural history. The scope and impact of these studies are considered in the present article, which ranges across the major fields of research that are now associated with Jacobite Studies. They include plots and conspiracies; rebellions and uprisings; Irish Jacobitism, particularly as it was embodied in poetic works; the Jacobite diaspora to the European continent; the Stuart courts in exile; and Jacobite culture, including literature. The significance of Jacobitism for English literary history is examined, and major controversies, including the debate over Samuel Johnson, are discussed.

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Elite Culture and the Decline of Scottish Jacobitism 1716-1745

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