What Are the Biggest Misconceptions About the Jacobites?

murray pittock, professor of literature at the university of glasgow. What do you think are the biggest misconceptions we have about the bites and their uprisings? They were a critical part of eighteenth century politics. The second is that they were doomed to defeat. People don't take these actions if they think they are doomed to defeat and risk their lives. We'll understand eighteenth century britan better if we understand that.