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- Title
'Such nonsense that it cannot be true':.
- Authors
Szechi, Daniel
- Abstract
This article is a response to the critique of the Jacobite George Lockhart of Carnwath's, Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland published by Christopher Whatley and Derek Patrick in the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies in 2007. Whatley and Patrick argued that Lockhart's influential account of the Union has for too long been uncritically accepted by historians. This article builds on their use of contemporary whig reactions to its version of events by reviewing the text in light of critical Jacobite sources (Lockhart's acerbic narrative also antagonized many of his comrades-in-arms). It nonetheless, concludes that neither whig nor Jacobite critics of the Memoirs diminish its usefulness as a source. Ultimately both bodies of criticism focus on particular moments, rather than on the Memoirs as a whole, and far from all the criticisms were valid. Thus if the text is handled according to the regular canons of historical evidence it more than retains its value for the historian.
- Subjects
MEMOIRS Concerning the Affairs of Scotland From Queen Anne's Accession to the Throne, to the Commencement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms of Scotland &; England, in May 1707 (Book); LOCKHART, George; JACOBITES; HISTORIANS; HISTORICAL research
- Publication
Historical Research, 2015, Vol 88, Issue 241, p441
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2281.12094