Hanoverian supporters also produced significant amounts of anti-Jacobite media as propaganda, though we should be clear to note that Hanoverian 'loyalists' and anti-Jacobites are not necessarily cognate or interchangeable terms. One could outwardly support the Whig government while still believing in some of the ideological trappings that Jacobitism espoused, and one could also take a decidedly critical stance of Jacobitism while still remaining skeptical or ambivalent to the post-Settlement Williamite/Georgian governments, especially after 1707 when the Union became such a fundamental hot-button issue on both sides of the border. We're far better served by thinking of this dynastic and political divide as existing along dynamic spectra rather than only in monochrome. Besides, the Hanoverian succession didn't officially begin until the summer of 1714, and anti-Jacobite sentiment essentially existed the moment the Revolution ended.

It's pretty easy to find diverse examples of anti-Jacobite propaganda expressed both in the visual arts and within political discourse, and also in a confessional context via sermons and religious treatises. Many songs, works of literary fiction, and dramatic/comedic plays also exist from the period. You can have a search through the incredible Macbean Collection at University of Aberdeen and see plenty of visual examples, including the infamous print of Fraser of Lovat as a beggar. Likewise, the Blaikie Digital Collection at the National Library of Scotland has a number of broadsheets and advertisements that are critical of Jacobite ideology and the people who identified as Jacobites. Other material examples can be found here and here.

The corpus of contemporary anti-Jacobite literature and sermons is vast, and a search on Eighteenth Century Collections Online or JISC Historical Texts should net you plenty of resources. Much of the printed criticism of Jacobite ideologies tended to be focused on stirring up fears about absolutism, corruption, and immorality, and made no apologies for lumping together Catholic and Episcopalian doctrine and church structure as the very breeding ground of dissent. We see repeated usage of terms like 'unnatural' and 'wicked' when referring to Jacobite martial efforts of rebellion against the established government.

More recently, some excellent work has been done on Jacobite women and how critical propaganda specifically targeted both their sexuality and their roles in the public sphere. The idea here was to equate all women as Jacobites, because they could be categorically ridiculed as burlesque and ineffective – emasculated qualities that were also applied to male and female Scots both within and outwith the Highlands. Wonderfully, some of this misogynistic rhetoric was seized upon by Jacobite-minded women and usefully inverted with comedic hyperbole and razor-sharp wit.

Plenty of good scholarship has been applied to different aspects of this subject, so if you can access some of the following publications, you can read about it in a lot more detail:

• Margaret Steele, 'Anti-Jacobite Pamphleteering, 1701-1720' in SHR (60:170/2, 1981), pp. 140-155.

• James J. Caudle, 'The Defence of Georgian Britain: The Anti-Jacobite Sermon, 1715–1746' in The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon, 1689-1901(Oxford, 2012), pp. 245-260.

• Carine Martin, ‘“Female Rebels”: The Female Figure in Anti-Jacobite Propaganda’ in Allan Macinnes, et al., Living with Jacobitism, 1690-1788: The Three Kingdoms and Beyond (London, 2015), pp. 85-98.

• Jennifer Novotny, 'Sedition at the Supper Table: The Material Culture of the Jacobite Wars, 1688-1760', Phd Thesis (University of Glasgow, 2013).

• Rachel Carnell, Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel (New York, 2006).

I also recommend keeping your eye on emerging scholars like Georgia Vullinghs, Frances Nolan, and Rosie Waine, all of whom are currently working on elements of Jacobite and anti-Jacobite propaganda/material culture as it relates to gender and beyond.

Hoping this has been of some use!

With best wishes,
Dr Darren S. Layne
Creator and Curator, The Jacobite Database of 1745