The Stuarts in Exile

The Stuarts in Exile

The Stuarts in Exile

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The Stuarts in Exile

2015- 2015

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Dr Clare Jackson tells the story of The Stuarts in Exile and sheds new light on the political, military and cultural threat the Jacobite's posed to the embryonic British state. Although the '15' ultimately failed, it crystallised the stark choice facing those living in early 18th-century Britain. Are you for the Stuarts or are you for Hanoverian's?

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