With the growing tide of Scottish national sentiment stemming from the Scottish National Party's (SNP) bid for independence from England since the late seventies the contemporary polemics of Scottish national identity begs for historical grounding. With two centuries worth of historiography concerning the Scottish nation and its often-cited colonial past under England’s supremacy, it is worthwhile to pursue a definition of the nation under a more auspicious lens. Sir Walter Scott is the de facto national author of the Scots, writing from the early 19th century and still sending significant ripples across contemporary society despite modernity and globalization being issued from the bi-centennial gap. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the meticulous lengths Scott took in reproducing the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion—a moment in history crucial to the understanding of Scotland’s nation-making—and investigate the unique national identities that divide his cast of characters from one another.

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