"The Battle of Culloden — It’s Time to Rethink ...." Topic

….Britain's Storied Triumph Over the Jacobites.

"For two-and-a-half centuries, British historiography has framed Jacobitism as primitive because of the threat it posed. Furthermore, the defeat of the Jacobites has contributed to a national narrative of foundational reconciliation and the development of the British Empire. Culloden was the summary site: the lieu de memoire on which was written the tabular contrast on which the British Empire was built…."
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Armand

Speaking as someone who is half Scots (although most of my ancestors seem to have been allies of the Duke of Argyll, and I even had a Campbell grandmother), I am not convinced by the main quote "For two-and-a-half centuries, British historiography has framed Jacobitism as primitive because of the threat it posed".

That may have been true to some extent (but even then not universally) in the late 18th Century, but that view changed in the 19th Century and even more so in a lot of the more recent books by Christopher Duffy and Stuart Reid, which gave a very balanced view of the Jacobite Army.

Rod

I am assuming that by British they are referring to the Island Germans.

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Amicalement
Armand

…Sir Walter Rlyeh for the win!

I think we have a case for the 'plain English speaking police' here: "…a national narrative of foundational reconciliation…"