The Stuarts in Exile

BBC Four

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday 22 January

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Part two of two. Dr Clare Jackson reveals how the Jacobite campaign took place on a European-wide stage, rather than purely Scottish, and inspired a nexus of international intrigue and covert plots. Jackson explores why so many law-abiding Scots and English were prepared to support the Catholic Stuarts and how the new Protestant Hanoverian regime hung by a thread, as George I and II struggled to impose their authority on frequently hostile and anti-European subjects