A central guide to all writing on the Stuart dynasty, tracing the royal line from James I King of Scots to Cardinal York, and charting the dynasty’s transformation from sovereign rulers to a family sustained by memory, devotion, and exile. This hub gathers together biographies, political history, religious conflict, succession crises, and the long afterlife of the Stuart cause across Europe. It offers a structured overview of the dynasty’s rise, fall, and the enduring Jacobite identity that persisted long after the loss of the crown, linking every related article into one coherent historical cluster.
The Stuarts: Meta Hub
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This hub covers the full scope of the House of Stuart: its monarchy, political struggles, religious conflicts, civil wars, cultural life, succession crises, key figures, and the timelines that shaped Britain from James I King of Scots to Cardinal York.
The hub brings together all related articles into one structured historical cluster, with particular emphasis on the Jacobite movement and the long exile of the Stuart line.
Chronological sections
Early Stuarts (1406–1625)
James I was King of Scots from 1406 to 1437, through to James VI & I
James I of Scotland:the Making of a Kingdom
Joan Beaufort: An English Queen Dowager of Scotland
Anne of Denmark Early court culture Religious tensions
Charles I & the Civil Wars (1625–1649)
Charles I Henrietta Maria Royalist figures Parliamentarian figures War campaigns Execution
Interregnum (1649–1660)
Cromwell’s Republic Religious experiments Exile court
Restoration (1660–1685)
Charles II Catherine of Braganza Mistresses Court culture
James II & the Protestant Revolution (1685–1689)
James II Mary of Modena William & Mary Exile Jacobites
Late Stuarts (1689–1714)
William III Mary II Queen Anne Succession crisis Act of Union
The list of articles
About James II and VII’s descendants
The Anatomy of Scandal: From Stuart Court to the Corner ShopBurials:
Assassination of James I of Scotland:21st February 1437
Charles XII: The King Who Followed No One
The Last Stuart: Too Holy, Too Poor and now Forgotten
Gorani’s Rome: Cardinals, Companions, and the Politics of Intimacy
Grasping Stuart history: Holding the hands of dead people
The growth of Protestantism by 1560
Henry Benedict Stuart: Military, Ecclesiastical, and Personal
Henrietta Maria and the House of Stuart
Jacques II Stuart: sa famille et les Jacobites à Saint‑Germain‑en‑Laye (1897)
James I of Scotland, 1394-1437: Shaped by Captivity, Determined to Reform
James Francis Edward Stuart: The Old Pretender and Absolutism in Transition
James Francis Edward Stuart and Exile, 1713–1720
Kilts to Cravats: The Continental Drift of the Stuart Dynasty
The Last Allegiance: Charles Emmanuel and Henry Stuart
Maria Clementina Sobieska: Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
Mary of Modena, marriage to James II and VII, and strategy
Mary of Modena: Influence in English Politics, Religion, and Culture (1673-1718)
Myth, Memory, and the Making of the Stuarts
Providence, Conversion and the Limits of Reason in the Stuart World
Queenship in Crisis: Mary of Modena and the Politics of Survival
Saint King Charles: Praying with a Blood Stained King?
Saint‑Germain‑en‑Laye: An International Court in Exile
Seeds, Oils, and Other Restorative Tonics: Then and Now
Scotland 1427: A Kingdom Setting Standards
Sham Marriages and social Decline: The Stuarts and Stolberg-Gederns
The Stuart Line: From Bottleneck to Extinction
The Stuart Dynasty: Exile, Devotion, Memory
The Stuart Succession After 1807
Theology of Secrecy: Jacobite Survival as Sacred Drama
Why write about the Stuart dynasty
Why “Henry IX and I”? The Double Regnal Number
Why Scotland’s Aristocracy Really Left Scotland
The Stuart Mythos: How a Dynasty Became a Legend
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Further Reading
- The Stuart Dynasty: Exile, Devotion, Memory
- Stuart Funerary History: Burials, Embalming and Power
- From Beyond the Grave”: Miracles, Cult, and Canonisation in the Posthumous Veneration of King James II and VII