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Collecting, and Not Collecting: Jacobite Material at the Advocates Library and National Library of Scotland
No full textThis article discusses the evidence for the Advocates Library’s non-collection of pro-Jacobite material as it was published in the eighteenth century. This is described through the Faculty of Advocate’s desire not to upset the political status quo, the Advocates Library’s connections to Jacobites within Edinburgh’s literati and book trade, and examination of the relevant material now held by the National Library of Scotland
“Redeeming the Land of Forgetfulness”: Trauma and Writing in the “Lyon in Mourning”
No full text“The Lyon in Mourning” is more than a manuscript of accounts; it presents a full-bodied account of trauma during and after the Battle of Culloden. While “The Lyon in Mourning” has been viewed as a source of historical detail regarding the life and times of Charles Edward Stuart and his Jacobite supporters, this paper proposes that the manuscript can be read as a work of trauma literature, one whereby the author, Bishop Robert Forbes, uses the act of writing to mediate his own trauma. Using the theories proposed by Michelle Balaev, Shosanna Felman and Dori Laub, and Judith Herman, this paper investigates the trauma that underscores Forbes’ writing and investigates how Forbes invites his readers to bear witness to the atrocities that have taken place
REVIEW: Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan, and Russell Newton, eds. The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland.
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Introduction: “New Perspectives on ‘The Lyon in Mourning’”
No full textThe editor\u27s Introduction to the contents of the International Review of Scottish Studies Special Issue on Jacobites and "New Perspectives on the \u27Lyon in Mourning\u27." 
The Digital “Lyon in Mourning”
No full textThis article describes the development of the digital edition of Robert Forbes’s “Lyon in Mourning” as part of the SSHRC Partnership Engage project, “Engaging Public and Academic Audiences to Recover Lost Voices of Scottish History: ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript and the Jacobite Networks of the 1745 Rising.” Following Patrick Sahle’s definition of a scholarly digital edition as one that is “guided by a digital paradigm in [its] theory, method and practice,” this article outlines the technical infrastructure and editorial decisions both employed by the project team and, in many ways, demanded by Forbes’s densely interlinked manuscript. Transcribing, digitizing, and editing Forbes’s manuscript, this article suggests, has not only provided the project with new ways to engage with the narratives compiled by Forbes, but has also demonstrated how Forbes’s editorial practice has shaped the project’s editorial and technical directions
“The Lyon in Mourning” at the National Library of Scotland
No full textThis article explores the history of the “Lyon in Mourning” manuscripts after Robert Chambers bequeathed them to the Advocates Library and how they entered the National Library of Scotland’s collections following its establishment in 1925. The article investigates the ways in which the Library has preserved, maintained, and promoted this iconic collection to the wider public, and demonstrates how vital the Jacobite relics attached to the volumes have been in engaging audiences in the history of the Jacobites
The “Lyon in Mourning”: Robert Forbes’s Papers and Early Jacobite Studies, 1775–1926
No full textJacobite Studies have flourished in recent years in a large part owing to the digitization of manuscript collections. This study examines the impact of the decisions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiquarian collectors on the development of Jacobite Studies through an exploration of the transmission, history, and impact of Robert Forbes’s recently digitized “Lyon in Mourning.” In this, the work charts the passage of the “Lyon in Mourning” from Forbes’s death in 1775 to various antiquarian collectors and on to the National Library of Scotland. In doing so, this study demonstrates the limitations and enduring repercussions of the early fixation with Forbes’s papers deemed to be of Jacobite interest, and highlights the value of Forbes’s wider writings for the modern studies of Jacobitism