One of the interesting things about learning about Jacobite history has been seeing how some contemporary political issues—like IndyRef!—are very much the results of that history having happened the way it did, or part of the same historical story, while other things about the world today are so very different from anything anyone in the 18th century would have recognised.

(Would women wearing trousers be easier to accept for someone who was used to men wearing kilts, or not? Certainly anti-Jacobite propaganda made a lot of the 'petticoats' thing, idk whether that generalises...)