Eveline Cruickshanks (1 December 1926 – 14 November 2021) was an historian of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British political history, specialising in

Jacobitism Jacobitism (; gd, Seumasachas, ; ga, Seacaibíteachas, ) was a political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British throne. The name derives from the first name ...

and

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. She was of English, Scottish and French descent. She was an

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of the

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of the

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. Cruickshanks edited the volumes of the ''

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'' for the years 1690–1715 and wrote all of the major biographies of Tory parliamentarians for the volumes covering 1715–1754, edited by

Romney Sedgwick Richard Romney Sedgwick (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1972) was a British historian, civil servant and diplomat. He was the elder son of Professor Adam Sedgwick, 1854–1913, and Laura Helen Elizabeth Robinson. He married Mana St David Hodson, daught ...

J. C. D. Clark Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark (born 28 February 1951) is a British historian of both History of the British Isles, British and History of the United States, American history. He received his undergraduate degree at Downing College, Cambridge. ...

has spoken of Cruickshanks' "pioneering work on the Tories" and has argued: "What made Sedgwick's volumes explosive was Dr Cruickshanks' argument, which made it impossible so to brush Tory survival aside: that the Tories were heavily involved, at different times, with Jacobitism and that the latter was a powerful and lasting force in politics".Clark, p. 152. She published ''The Glorious Revolution'' in 2000 (Palgrave-Macmillan). Toryism and Jacobitism in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century was her special interest and she edited several volumes of essays on the subject. ''The Atterbury Plot'' written with the late Professor

Howard Erskine-Hill Howard Henry Erskine-Hill, (19 June 1936 – 26 February 2014) was an English literary scholar most notable for his work on the eighteenth century poet Alexander Pope.''The Daily Telegraph'',Professor Howard Erskine-Hill - obituary (13 May 2014), ...

published in 2004 was the first full scale study of this subject. She was Chairman of the Jacobite Studies Trust, a registered Charity, whose first conference was held at the British Academy on 11–12 July 2007. She was Chairman then Vice-President of the

Royal Stuart Society The Royal Stuart Society, founded in 1926, is the senior royalist-monarchist organisation and the foremost Jacobite body in the United Kingdom. Its full name is The Royal Stuart Society and Royalist League although it is best known simply as the ...

Works

*''Political Untouchables; The Tories and the '45'' (Duckworth 1979). *''By Force or By Default? The Revolution of 1688-89'' (1989). *''The Glorious Revolution'' (2000). *''The Atterbury Plot'' (with Professor Howard Erskine-Hill, 2004).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cruickshanks, Eveline 1926 births 2021 deaths British historians British women historians