Too many historians have ignored the role of women in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
This book aims to redress the balance.
Damn’ Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling the fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46.
Drawn from original documents and letters, Maggie Craig brings their stories to life in this often touching and always engrossing reframed history.
Damn’ Rebel Bitches by Maggie Craig is published in a new, updated edition, 25 years after its first appearance, on 10 March, 2022.
Its companion volume (about the men of the 1745 Jacobite Rising), Bare-Arsed Banditti, comes out in a revised edition on 10 March as well.
Maggie has written about researching her book in the days when records weren’t as easily accessible on the net as they are now in Damn’ Rebel Bitches: Research Then and Now.
She’s also written about other Jacobite risings for Historia in The Battle of Killiecrankie and 1719: the forgotten Jacobite rising.
And, to mark the publication of One Week In April in 2020, she looks at another insurrection in The Scottish Radical Rising of 1820.
If you’re interested in Jacobite history and the 45, you may also like Frances Owen’s features on the subject:
Raising the Jacobite standard: Glenfinnan, 1745
Remembering Culloden
Five surprising facts about Charles Edward Stuart
And novelist Angus Donald writes about earlier events, at the beginning of the Jacobite period, in:
Why the Glorious Revolution was . . . well, neither
The never-ending Battle of the Boyne
