The Jacobite Database of 1745

UPDATES & PROJECT NOTES

2018 19 August

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On the anniversary of Charles Edward Stuart's raising of the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan, a brand new iteration of the JDB1745 website is launched, bringing project news and resources up-to-date for site visitors. Also announced is the official launch of Little Rebellions, the JDB1745 research blog.

2018 14 April

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Darren gives a presentation at the NTS Culloden Visitor Centre on the weekend of the 272nd Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden entitled '"Too Vague to Grasp, Too Volatile to Define': Considering the Motivation of the Jacobite Army in 1745-6". Watch a recording of the lecture here.

2017 24 June

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A comprehensive new location authority is created in Airtable, accounting for all historical counties in Scotland, each with its constituent historical parishes. Each parish is linked to its corresponding page at the Statistical Accounts of Scotland website and has an expandable onomastic thesaurus to take into account variations in spelling and naming conventions.

2015 25 October

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The database now holds 12,786 entries, with thousands more transcribed and ready for import. This figure reflects the total number of persona records in the base JDB structure used for prosopographical analysis within Dr Layne's thesis. Over 3000 additional persona records were then interpolated from other supplementary databases.

2014 27 April

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Over 8000 entries from eleven distinct sources have now been imported into the database structure. All data have been normalised and are up-to-date, with an option of up to forty-five distinct fields for each persona record.

2014 13 April

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The entire data set from the three volumes of The Prisoners of the '45 has been entered into the database schema. This accounts for 3471 persona entries.

2014 6 February

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Papers from the Montrose Muniments at NRS have been catalogued and the transcriptions added to the database. Sample queries are generated to iron out the searching capabilities of the database code.

2013 5 October

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Jointly with Dr Kieran German, Darren spoke at NTS Culloden Visitors Centre: 'Honor's war we strongly waged' - Exploring Jacobite Army Doctrine in the Risings of 1715 and 1745.

2013 20 August

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Darren presented a paper at IHR entitled Something Rotten in Auld Reekie: Suspicion, Allegation, and Mania in Post-Jacobite Edinburgh 1746-7. Read the abstract here.

2013 17 July

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The first working database model is almost coded and ready for trial. The ERD has been completely reworked and simplified with plenty of room for expansion.

2013 7 July

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The project is formally introduced to the core of Jacobite scholarship in Paris at the Jacobite Studies Trust conference: Les Jacobites et L'Europe 1689-1807.

2013 23 August

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Lists of Jacobite prisoners, witness depositions, and trial records from the Treasury Board Papers at the National Archives in Kew are being gathered and collated for entry into the database.

2013 16 June

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630 Jacobite soldiers from The Muster Roll of Forfarshire or Lord Ogilvy's Regiment have been entered into the database, including rank, residence, occupation (where known), and other biographical notes.

2013 31 January

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Darren introduces the project and presents findings-to-date publicly for the very first time at University of Edinburgh's Scottish History Seminar. Title: '”Virtuous Rabble” & Virtual Rebels - Digital Humanities and the Jacobite Database of 1745’.

2012 17 December

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The 3-volume The Prisoners of the '45 is the next reference source to be entered and cross-referenced with the first c.3000 names. The schema for all of Rosebery's A List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion has been collated and biographical notes are currently being added to known personalities.

2012 22 November

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All of the 2579 names in Lord Rosebery's A List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion have been entered into the pre-database schema and are now being compared with Rosebery's Evidences, also within A List of Persons.

2012 16 April

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At the 2012 ISHR Reading Weekend, on the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, the first iteration of JDB1745.net is launched, consisting of a splash page and basic project overview.

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