Scottish History
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Parliament and Bannockburn
In the run up to September’s Scottish independence referendum, we’re publishing a series of blogposts on the relationship between England…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Naomi Lloyd-Jones on ‘Deconstructing Westminster: towards a four nations history of the Irish Home Rule crisis, c.1886-93’
Naomi Lloyd-Jones of King’s College, London writes a guest post about her recent paper given to the ‘Parliaments, politics and…
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Remembering Culloden
On 16 April 1746, the battle of Culloden brought to a close the last serious attempt to restore the exiled…
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‘There has been all along something odd in this affair’: The Malt Tax and the 1713 attempt to repeal the Union
300 years ago this month, arguments over the Malt Tax nearly brought the fledgling Union between England and Scotland to…
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On this day in 1606: Proposed union between England and Scotland
Our Parliament Week ‘on this day’ article for today features a debate that is still relevant today… On this day…