Eveline Cruickshanks (1 December 1926 – 14 November 2021)[1] was a historian of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British political history, specialising in Jacobitism and Toryism.
[3] J. C. D. Clark has spoken of Cruickshanks' "pioneering work on the Tories"[4] 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".
Toryism and Jacobitism in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century was her special interest and she edited several volumes of essays on the subject.
The Atterbury Plot written with the late Professor Howard Erskine-Hill published in 2004 was the first full scale study of this subject.
She was Chairman of the Jacobite Studies Trust, a registered Charity, whose first conference was held at the British Academy on 11–12 July 2007.