Monograph
Responding to the Jacobite Threat: Policy, Law and Assimilation, 1688-1807
Cunningham CE (2025) Responding to the Jacobite Threat: Policy, Law and Assimilation, 1688-1807. Manchester University Press.
About me
I hold degrees in History (BA Honours, First Class), Classical Studies (BA Honours, First Class), Psychology (BSc) and Marketing Management (BA), and a PhD in History.
I also hold Qualified Teaching Status (QTS) and am registered to teach History, Classical Studies, Latin, Modern Studies, Psychology, Sociology and Business Education with the General Teaching Council of Scotland (GTCS).
Award
Scottish Historical Review Trust Research Grant
Scottish Historical Review Trust Board
Postgraduate Merit Scholarship
University of Stirling
Professional membership
Associate Fellowship
Royal Historical Society
Research
My research interests primarily include the field of Jacobite studies. My doctoral thesis was entitled 'Lawful Sovereignty: The Political Criminalisation and Decriminalisation of Jacobitism, 1688–1788'. Other interests include broader social aspects of the Jacobite movement, including material culture and court politics, especially concerning the lives of the exiled Stuarts.
Aside from this topic, I am also interested in other aspects of Scottish history, particularly within the long eighteenth century, and in Classical Studies with its significant influence upon later epochs in Scottish and British history. I hope to explore these connections in future research.
Outputs (18)
Outputs
Book Chapter
Cunningham CE (2025) Jacobitism, High Treason, and the ‘Scottish Problem’: the evolution of post-Union treason legislation in Scotland, 1708–48. In: Cultures of Scottish Jacobitism: Identities, Memories, and Materialities, 1688–1788. Manchester University Press.
Article
The Stuarts in Italy, 1766–1807: A Court in Perpetual Pretence
Baccolo S & Cunningham CE (2024) The Stuarts in Italy, 1766–1807: A Court in Perpetual Pretence. The Court Historian: The International Journal of Court Studies, 29 (2), pp. 134-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2024.2367338
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Italian Exile: The Princely Courts of Charles Edward and Henry Benedict Stuart, 1766-1807
Baccolo S & Cunningham CE (2024) Italian Exile: The Princely Courts of Charles Edward and Henry Benedict Stuart, 1766-1807. Eighteenth Century Writing Group, The University of Stirling, 30.10.2024-30.10.2024.
Article
Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Music: A Lifelong Love
Baccolo S & Cunningham CE (2024) Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Music: A Lifelong Love. The Jacobite: Journal of the 1745 Association, (175F), pp. 1-45.
Article
Gods and Monsters: Classical Allusion and the Jacobites
Cunningham CE & Montgomery A (2024) Gods and Monsters: Classical Allusion and the Jacobites. History Scotland, 24 (2), pp. 30-36.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Cunningham CE (2023) 'Restraining merited Punishment & extending unmerited Mercy': Punishing and Forgiving Jacobitism, 1688-1753. Jacobite Nations Conference, The University of Aberdeen, 28.10.2023.
Website Content
Crowns and controversies: the politics of King Charles III's coronation
Cunningham CE & Filet J (2023) Crowns and controversies: the politics of King Charles III's coronation. [Blog Post] 05.05.2023. https://historyjournal.org.uk/2023/05/05/crowns-and-controversies-the-politics-of-king-charles-iiis-coronation/
Thesis
Lawful Sovereignty: The Political Criminalisation and Decriminalisation of Jacobitism, 1688–1788
Cunningham CE (2023) Lawful Sovereignty: The Political Criminalisation and Decriminalisation of Jacobitism, 1688–1788. Doctor of Philosophy. The University of Stirling. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35462
Article
The House of Faa: Scotland’s Lost Gypsy Royal Dynasty
Cunningham CE (2023) The House of Faa: Scotland’s Lost Gypsy Royal Dynasty. History Scotland, 23 (1), pp. 16-19.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Cunningham CE (2023) 'Lawful Sovereignty: The Political Criminalisation and Decriminalisation of Jacobitism, 1688–1788: Thesis Findings'. 2023 HHP symposium, 08.02.2023.
Article
Amassing Jacobitiana: The Amulree Jacobite Collection
Cunningham CE (2022) Amassing Jacobitiana: The Amulree Jacobite Collection. History Scotland, 22 (1), pp. 14-19. https://www.historyscotland.com/store/back-issues/history-scotland/history-scotland-vol22issue1-janfeb22-issue-123/#images
Article
George Washington and the Scottish Jacobites
Cunningham CE (2022) George Washington and the Scottish Jacobites. History Scotland - Spotlight: Jacobites. https://www.historyscotland.com/history/spotlight-jacobites-george-washington-and-the-scottish-jacobites/
Newspaper / Magazine
Charles III: the difficult legacy and political significance of the new king’s name
Cunningham CE & Filet J (2022) Charles III: the difficult legacy and political significance of the new king’s name. The Conversation. 13.09.2022.
Article
Cunningham CE (2021) 'A Thorn in Their Side': Trends in British Punishment during the Long Eighteenth Century and the Crime of Jacobitism, 1688-c.1815. Spark: Stirling International Journal of Postgraduate Research, (7) Connections and Divisions. https://spark.stir.ac.uk/issues/issue-7/issue-7-punishment-cunningham/
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Cunningham CE (2021) 'Lawful Sovereignty: The Centrality of Jacobitism within British Political Criminal Legislation, 1688–1788'., 04.06.2021.
Article
'Rebels Without a Cause': The External Jacobite Diasporas, 1688-1788
Cunningham CE (2020) 'Rebels Without a Cause': The External Jacobite Diasporas, 1688-1788. SATH History Teaching Review Yearbook, 27, pp. 4-17. http://www.sath.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Cunningham-2021.pdf
Dissertation
Cunningham CE (2017) ‘Ye Jacobites by Name’: An Evaluation of the Amulree Jacobite Collection in the University of Stirling Library Archives. BA (Honours) in History with Professional Education. The University of Stirling.
Teaching
HISU9S3: Reputations in History (2024/5)
FutureLearn: Heart of Scotland: History & Heritage of Stirling at 900 Years (2023/4)
HISU9C2: Concepts of History: Themes and Transformations (2023/4)
HISU9B1: The Making of Modern Britain 1707 to 2000: An Introduction (2023/4)
HISU9A2: Renaissance, Reformation and Revolution: Scotland 1542-1715 (2023/4)
ISSU9TJ: Scotland in the 18th Century: Union, Rebellion and Enlightenment (2022/3)
HISU9B1: The Making of Modern Britain 1707 to 2000: An Introduction (2022/3)