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Although historians have devoted much attention to the influence of Jacobitism on Parliamentary politics, none has hitherto attempted to explore its broader implications in English society. Paul Monod's acclaimed study, newly available in paperback, redresses this, and offers a wide-ranging analysis of every aspect of Jacobite activity.

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One of the greatest ‘what-ifs?’ of the Jacobite movement centres on the English Jacobites and the fundamental question of why they were so politically important within the movement and yet so useless in terms of achieving a Stuart restoration. 

England was the most powerful of the three kingdoms of the British Isles and a major section of the Tory party, the most popular party in England, episodically developed a yearning for such a restoration. Yet it never took off. Monod’s classic book explores English Jacobitism in admirably fine and lucid detail and provides the best answer we are going to…

From Daniel's list on the Jacobite Risings.

Although the Jacobites enjoyed their strongest support in Scotland and Ireland, they had their English supporters too.

This is simply the best and most comprehensive history of the impact of the Jacobites in politics, poetry, religion, society, public order, and rioting, radicalism and among the gentry in England over a century, with an extraordinary amount of detail.

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