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Jacobitism and Anti-Jacobitism in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1727 / David Parrish

Review Date:

31 May 2018

Many years ago, J. H. Overton drew a fine line between Non-Jurors on the one hand and Jacobites on the other. The former, according to Overton, were ‘in no active sense of the term Jacobites’ because they were ‘content to live peacefully and quietly without a thought of disturbing the present government’.

A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State / Vincent Hiribarren

Review Date:

30 May 2019

The title of A History of Borno, Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State has two ambiguities. Situated in the Sahel, Borno did not span the Sahara. It was Trans-Saharan by being linked culturally and economically to the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, rather than to the Atlantic. Whether the failing state is Nigeria or Borno is also unclear.

Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie / eds. Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim J G Harris, John Marshall

Review Date:

15 May 2020

Mark Goldie has been one of the most influential interrogators of England in the later 17th and early 18th centuries.