The Act of Union is held by National Archives of Scotland. PIC: Neil Hanna/TSPL ... trade revenues increased by 2,500% between 1707 and the mid-1800s – three times as much as the increase ...

A NEW play charting the events leading up to the 1707 Act of Union will ... at a time when Scotland was debating whether it should be part of a Union and not be an independent nation.

The political unification of Scotland and England was sealed in 1707 with the creation ... the restatement of the Act of Settlement 1701 and the ban on Roman Catholics from taking the throne. Most ...

It is the first time Scotland has been entitled to borrow independently of the UK since the 1707 Act of Union. A Government spokesman said: “Scottish ministers have to date not drawn down ...

She said that while the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England still underpins the relationship between the two countries, a new Act was needed for the 21st century. Her proposals for the ...

based on the reputed advantages that Scotland had enjoyed since 1707. The Act of Union that was duly negotiated between Britain and Ireland in 1800 again represented the continuation of the ...

One contemporary commentator observed that Scotland would `be no longer ... The Treaty and Act of Union came into effect on 1st May 1707 having swiftly passed through both Houses of Parliament ...

We were a bit bemused by this yesterday. The Scottish Tory MSP reacted furiously to a story in The National which said Scotland had been absorbed into England by the 1707 Act Of Union, rather than ...

Its failure precipitated economic distress in Scotland and persuaded some, Patterson included, to return to an old idea. In 1707 the Act of Union was passed, uniting Scotland with England and ...