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The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Murray Pittock answers listener questions about the Jacobites, and their attempts to restore the Stuart dynasty to the throne. Speaking to Emma Slattery Williams, he discusses who the Jacobites were, why their risings failed, and how realistic the hit show Outlander is in its portrayal of the Jacobite cause. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery.

0:05.5

Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up-and-coming.

0:10.5

Nobody actually knew it existed.

0:13.1

But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan.

0:18.2

It looked good, really, really good.

0:22.9

Their investors thought so too.

0:29.2

And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly. Thanks, Canber. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

0:52.6

I'm Ellie Corthorne. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Jacobite movement made several attempts to restore the Stuart dynasty to the British throne.

1:05.2

And on today's Everything You Wanted to know episode, we're speaking to Murray Pituck, who's answering your questions

1:11.9

on who the Jacobites were and what they wanted. Putting your questions to Murray was BBC

1:17.5

History Revealed staff writer Emma Slattery Williams. We've had a lot of questions in about the

1:24.3

Jacobites from our readers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and also some of the

1:29.0

biggest Google searches. So I think the first question should be, who were the Jacobites?

1:34.2

And what does the name Jacobite mean?

1:36.0

So the name Jacobite simply means a follower or supporter of James, because it was James

1:42.2

the second of England and Ireland and seventh of Scotland,

1:46.1

who was the last monarch in the direct Stuart line and was exiled in 1888.

1:53.9

And his supporters became known as Jacobites.

1:58.0

What did they want?

1:59.3

Who were they?

2:00.1

They were the supporters of James initially. But the reason the Jacobites. What did they want? Who were they? They were the supporters of James initially,

2:02.1

but the reason the Jacobites are still popular and important today is because they represent

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