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'''Eveline Cruickshanks''' is an historian specialising in [[Jacobitism]] and [[Tory (British political party)|Toryism]].<ref>[http://www.history.ac.uk/about/eveline-cruickshanks Dr. Eveline Cruickshanks]</ref> She is of English, Scottish and French blood. |
'''Eveline Cruickshanks''' is an historian specialising in [[Jacobitism]] and [[Tory (British political party)|Toryism]].<ref>[http://www.history.ac.uk/about/eveline-cruickshanks Dr. Eveline Cruickshanks]</ref> She is of English, Scottish and French blood. |
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Cruickshanks edited the volumes of the ''History of Parliament'' for the years 1690–1715 and wrote all of the major biographies of Tory parliamentarians for the volumes covering 1715–1754, edited by [[Romney Sedgwick]].<ref>Eveline Cruickshanks, ''Political Untouchables; The Tories and the '45'' (Duckworth 1979), back flap.</ref> [[J. C. D. Clark]] has spoken of Cruickshanks' "pioneering work on the Tories"<ref>J. C. D. Clark, ''Revolution and Rebellion. State and Society in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'' (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 153.</ref> and has argued: "What made Sedgwick's volumes explosive was Dr Cruickshanks' argument, which made it impossible so to brush Tory survival aside: that the Tories were heavily involved, at different times, with Jacobitism and that the latter was a powerful and lasting force in politics".<ref>Clark, p. 152.</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:42, 29 September 2014
Eveline Cruickshanks is an historian specialising in Jacobitism and Toryism.[1] She is of English, Scottish and French blood.
Cruickshanks edited the volumes of the History of Parliament for the years 1690–1715 and wrote all of the major biographies of Tory parliamentarians for the volumes covering 1715–1754, edited by Romney Sedgwick.[2] J. C. D. Clark has spoken of Cruickshanks' "pioneering work on the Tories"[3] and has argued: "What made Sedgwick's volumes explosive was Dr Cruickshanks' argument, which made it impossible so to brush Tory survival aside: that the Tories were heavily involved, at different times, with Jacobitism and that the latter was a powerful and lasting force in politics".[4]
Works
- Political Untouchables; The Tories and the '45 (Duckworth 1979).
- By Force or By Default? The Revolution of 1688-89 (1989).
- The Glorious Revolution (2000).
- The Atterbury Plot (with Professor Howard Erskine-Hill, 2004).
Notes
- ^ Dr. Eveline Cruickshanks
- ^ Eveline Cruickshanks, Political Untouchables; The Tories and the '45 (Duckworth 1979), back flap.
- ^ J. C. D. Clark, Revolution and Rebellion. State and Society in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 153.
- ^ Clark, p. 152.