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How Might a Cultural History Scholar Use State Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers?

Explore State Papers Online through a Cultural History Lens

Overview

Calendar of the Stuart Papers belonging to His Majesty the King, preserved at Windsor Castle. Vol. 6, Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1916.The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle document the lives of the exiled Stuarts, from the Glorious Revolution in 1688 to the death of the last Stuart heir, Henry Benedict, Cardinal Duke of York in 1807. The Jacobite movement was the struggle, conducted through military and diplomatic means, by the exiled Stuarts and their supporters to regain the English throne. The Stuart and Cumberland Papers archive contains a wide variety of sources on this period of history. From the daily operations of the Stuart government in exile to the details of failed rebellions, there is plenty of material here to assist a political or military historian wishing to investigate eighteenth-century politics in Europe, as well as being of great value to cultural historians.

State Papers Online