So the fandom I am into is the 1925 book The Flight of the Heron by D K Broster, which is an extremely slashy book about the true love of a redcoat officer and one of the Cameron lairds, set during the '45. Am in the middle of writing a long fic about them. But obviously it's a tiny fandom (though much of the fic that exists is extremely good!), so I am diving headfirst into research where I might, in a large fandom, simply have kept to reading fic. I really knew nothing of this subject beforehand. Here are some books I've read so far, and I'm a third of the way through Christopher Duffy's The '45 which I find extremely readable, and then I have The Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen 1650-1784 by Bruce Lenman lined up.
ETA: *rereads comment* Clearly I should use the word "extremely" less. *facepalm* Also, bless university interlibrary loans.
Re: Jacobites
So the fandom I am into is the 1925 book The Flight of the Heron by D K Broster, which is an extremely slashy book about the true love of a redcoat officer and one of the Cameron lairds, set during the '45. Am in the middle of writing a long fic about them. But obviously it's a tiny fandom (though much of the fic that exists is extremely good!), so I am diving headfirst into research where I might, in a large fandom, simply have kept to reading fic. I really knew nothing of this subject beforehand. Here are some books I've read so far, and I'm a third of the way through Christopher Duffy's The '45 which I find extremely readable, and then I have The Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen 1650-1784 by Bruce Lenman lined up.
ETA: *rereads comment* Clearly I should use the word "extremely" less. *facepalm* Also, bless university interlibrary loans.