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Abstract:Bolingbroke has been overlooked by intellectual historians in the last few decades, at least in comparison with 'canonical' thinkers. This article examines one of the most important but disputable aspects of his political thought: his views on political parties and his theory of opposition. It aims to demonstrate that Bolingbroke's views on party have been misunderstood and that it is possible to think of him as an advocate of political parties rather than the 'anti-party' writer he is commonly known as. It has been suggested that Bolingbroke parties had yet to become accepted in British political discourse, however, and they were often described as pernicious. This article will investigate the contribution of Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) to the eighteenth-century debate about the role of parties in the political process, a subject which has not been at the forefront of recent Bolingbroke research, including that of Adrian Lashmore-Davies and David Armitage. 3 In the process, the commonplace caricature of Bolingbroke as the paradigmatic anti-party writer of the eighteenth century will be challenged.Bolingbroke has influentially been portrayed as the 'standard anti-party writer' and the 'fountain-head of anti-party thought'. 4 It has also often been suggested that he tried but

This article examines the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume (1711–76) and the Jacobites. Many of his friendships with Jacobites are known, but they have rarely been explored in detail, perhaps because they sit uneasily with the now dominant interpretation of Hume as a whig. While he was frequently accused of Jacobitism in his lifetime, this article does not seek to revive the myth that he was committed to the cause of the Stuarts at any stage of his life. However, his balanced treatment of Jacobitism indicates that we should dismiss entrenched dichotomies between enlightenment and progressive whiggism on the one hand, and nostalgic and conservative Jacobitism on the other. Despite his own lack of Jacobite commitments, the case of Hume shows that Jacobitism needs to be better integrated into Scottish enlightenment studies.