The Stuarts in Exile

BBC Four HD

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday 15 January

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The first of a two-part documentary in which Dr Clare Jackson recalls Prince James Francis Stuart's audacious and long-running rebellion to reclaim his throne from the Hanoverian king George I. She tells the story of the Stuarts in exile and sheds new light on the political, military and cultural threat the Jacobites posed to the embryonic British state, polarising public opinion in the process