This strong collection of essays in honour of Eveline Cruickshanks reflects the dedicatee's consistent determination to locate Jacobitism within a rounded European context. As a result, she has done more perhaps than any other scholar in the field to give her subject an undisputed place in the mainstream of eighteenth-century studies. There are twelve essays in this book (only one by a woman, incidentally). The first and longest, Jonathan Clark's, provides an invaluable summary of scholarly writing on Jacobitism from 1688 to 2006. Éamonn ÓCiardha's paper constitutes the solitary offering on Ireland, appropriately titled ‘“A lot done, more to do”: the Restoration and road ahead for Irish Jacobite studies’. There are two contributions on the '15: Kieran German considers Jacobite politics in Aberdeen and Daniel Szechi ponders the role of plebeian Scots after the rebellion was over through the prism of a major riot in Edinburgh on 26 March 1716. The last paper on Scotland is Christopher Duffy's on the Hessians in Scotland in 1746. Chapters vi, vii and viii all pick up religious themes (identified by the editors as a long-neglected area of research). Paul Kléber Monod argues that Thomas Carte's History of England (1747–55) depicts the Druids, the priests of ancient Britain, as precursors of a modern British national identity. He is followed by Ian Higgins examining the ‘elective affinities’ (p. 149) between two incendiary priests, Jonathan Swift and Charles Leslie. Richard Sharp's subject is the way in which subscription lists provide evidence of the cultural and political overlap between conforming High Churchmen and non-jurors. The last four pieces all inspect aspects of Jacobitism on the continent: Edward Corp correctly locates the Stuart court in Rome at the Palazzo Del Re; Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac looks at the sometimes awkward and amusing social integration of Irish Jacobite regiments into the French army; Patrick Clarke Dromantin traces the influence of Jacobites on French economic development; and Steve Murdoch pieces together information on the little known Order del Toboso as a Jacobite social network. Jacobite studies, on this evidence, are to be encouraged and largely substantiate the claims made by the editors that it is ‘contemporary, necessary and compelling (p. 7)’.