The years following the Jacobites' defeat at Culloden in 1746 saw the emergence of a renewed perspective on Scottish culture and history. The change was constructed by, and reflected in, literature and poems that positioned Scotland as a place with romantic virtues and subliminal sights. They valorized Highland culture, too. Literary works, such as the chapbooks in this display, that were created after the Jacobite conflicts romanticized past events for modern readers. Literary architects such as James Macpherson (1736-1796), Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), and Robert Burns (1759-1796), provided renewed perspectives on the past that helped to reposition the mindset of Scotland to represent one that celebrated the history of Scotland and its people. Part of the attraction to Scottish culture came from the interest to discover the unknown, and the fascination to interact with a disappearing past. The result was an admiration for the need to grasp onto this history that could one day be forgotten, and cultivate an empathetic approach to the Jacobite cause, representing them as noble, people attached to a doomed cause. By recasting the Jacobites as the patriots of their time, it also underscored the political environment when these artefacts were created. Under these new conditions, these contents were no longer controversial or seen as a threat and were regarded as evidence from significant moments in Britain's history and Scottish Highland heritage.

The items in this section were created in environments in which the Jacobites were becoming memorialised and commemorated in a romantic vein.