Jacobite-related items and websites at the National Library of Scotland
Rare books curator Robert Betteridge (left) gives Professor of Scottish history at the University of Dundee, Christopher Whatley, a tour of the 1715 Jacobite exhibition at the National Library of Scotland.
The National Library of Scotland holds many items relating to both the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite risings. Rare books curator Robert Betteridge looks after the library’s collections of Jacobite material and recently curated the Library’s exhibition commemorating the 300th anniversary of the 1715 rising.
If you would like to find out more about the Jacobite-related items the Library holds or would like more information about Library collections relating to Scottish history, please email the Learning Team learning@nls.uk
- Blaikie prints: Portraits of people and illustrations of events relating to the Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland in 1715 and 1745-1746
http://digital.nls.uk/jacobite-prints-and-broadsides/pageturner.cfm?mode=gallery&id=74466725 - Documenting the Union of Parliaments
http://www.nls.uk/collections/rare-books/collections/union-of-parliaments - James VI and the union of the crowns website
http://digital.nls.uk/unionofcrowns/ - Scottish history in print website
http://digital.nls.uk/print/ - Timeline of key events in Scottish history
http://digital.nls.uk/scotlandspages/ - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson has a Jacobite background
http://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/chapter.html - 'Word on the Street' web feature with links to some Jacobite broadsides
http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/search.html - Robert Burns 'Sheriff-Muir' manuscript held at the National Library
http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2009/02/burnss-sheriff-muir-manuscript-to-return-to-scotland
