Eveline Cruickshanks is an historian specialising in Jacobitism

Jacobitism

Jacobitism was the political movement in Britain dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland, later the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Kingdom of Ireland...

 and Toryism. She is of English, Scottish and French blood.

Cruickshanks edited the volumes of the History of Parliament for the years 1690–1715 and wrote all of the major biographies of Tory parliamentarians for the volumes covering 1715–1754, edited by Romney Sedgwick

Romney Sedgwick

Romney Sedgwick was a British historian. He married Mana St David Hodson in 1936, having one son and one daughter together....

. J. C. D. Clark

J. C. D. Clark

Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark is a British historian of both British and American history. He received his undergraduate degreee at Downing College, Cambridge. Having previously held posts at Peterhouse, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford into 1996, he has since held the Joyce C...

has spoke of Cruickshanks' "pioneering work on the Tories" and has argued: "What made Sedgwick's volumes explosive was Dr Cruickshanks' argument, which made it impossible so to brush Tory survival aside: that the Tories were heavily involved, at different times, with Jacobitism and that the latter was a powerful and lasting force in politics".

Works

• Political Untouchables; The Tories and the '45 (Duckworth 1979).
• By Force or By Default? The Revolution of 1688-89 (1989).
• The Glorious Revolution (2000).
• The Atterbury Plot (with Professor Howard Erskine-Hill, 2004).