Explore centuries of Scottish history and archaeology with fascinating features on topics from all branches and periods of Scottish history and archaeology, written by leading historians, archaeologists and museum curators. With news on the latest research, opinion, expert reviews and spotlights on the country's most significant historical archives, this lavishly-illustrated magazine has everything you need to explore Scotland's rich past.

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4 million Edinburgh Gazette records released • Over 220 years of records from The Edinburgh Gazette newspaper have been released by FindMyPast

New study to shed light on the literary and cultural lives of early modern merchants • A new University of Stirling study investigating the literary and cultural activities of merchants in early modern Britain could help inform present-day educational debates

Online Jacobite lecture

EXPLORE THE STORY OF YOUR STREET • Our street history project continues with advice on tracing the history of a tenement, plus reader Iain Peebles’ intriguing research into the story behind a decorated bell pull

LEITH 1645 A VISITATION OF THE PLAGUE • Alison Rosie examines a church record of 1645, the year the plague struck Leith, with echoes of today’s pandemic

RE-INTERPRETING THE LOST CHOIR OF DUNFERMLINE ABBEY: HISTORY, LITURGY AND GROUND - PENETRATING RADAR • In part 2 of his research article, Dr Michael Penman explains how GPR scans have thrown doubt on oral tradition surrounding where in the abbey church the Bruce grave is located

The Jacobites in Scotland: a brief introduction • As an introduction to this special issue of History Scotland, Dr Allan Kennedy offers a bird-eye view of Scottish Jacobitism, discussing the movement’s aims, support-base and activities between the late 17th and late 18th centuries

THE ENIGMA THAT WAS THE FIRST JACOBITE • Jacobitism began with King James VII & II, the man who lost his thrones in the revolution of 1688-89. But who was this complex, enigmatic, much-maligned king, and what was his relationship with Scotland? Dr Alastair Mann discusses James and his legacy

A ‘VIRTUOUS RABBLE’ OF VIRTUAL REBELS • In this History Scotland exclusive, Dr Darren Scott Layne introduces The Jacobite Database of 1745, an ongoing prosopographical research project that focuses upon compiling archival information about common Jacobite soldiers and civilians to present a detailed social history of Jacobitism from the bottom-up during its final historical phase

EPISCOPALIANS AND JACOBITES • Often characterised as simply the spiritual wing of the Jacobite movement, Scottish Episcopalians in fact had a much more complicated and nuanced relationship with both the Jacobite and Hanoverian causes. Dr Kieran German explains

PETTICOAT PATRONAGE OF THE STUART CAUSE • Prince Charles Edward famously proved popular with many Scottish women during the ’45, and some of them provided him with important support. Dr Anita Gillespie explores this ‘petticoat patronage’ through the stories of two Jacobite-supporting ladies called Jean

FEUDING AND RIVALRY IN AN EXILED COURT • Dr Annie Tindley introduces a diary that fascinates with its detailed portrait of wasted talent and petty rivalries at the exiled Jacobite court in 18th-century Rome

Jacobitism, espionage and subversion • James Carnegy’s personal war against the British state, 1697-1734

A NEWLY-RECOGNISED SWORD OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART • Professor Edward Corp and Graeme Rimer share news of their recent research into a silver-hilted sword that they believe originally belonged to Prince Charles Edward Stuart

From the Highlands to the Caribbean • Nicola Martin analyses a valuable biography of Lord Seaforth, politician and...