Author: D. Szechi

PAUL MONOD  is Barton Hepburn Professor of History at Middlebury College, Vermont. He has published books on a variety of subjects in British and European history, including Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837. He is now working on the role of the occult in the British Enlightenment. MURRAY PITTOCK  is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His work on Jacobitism and Romanticism (most recently The Myth of the Jacobite Clans, 2nd edition, 2009) has a leading edge international profile. Professor Pittock is currently working on a study of material culture and sedition in the eighteenth century. DANIEL SZECHI  is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. His books include: 1715. The Great Jacobite Rebellion and George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727: a Study in Jacobitism. He is currently working on the Scots Jacobite attempt to overthrow the Union in 1708.