It is a three year pilot, which aims to provide a one-stop information and advisory service for people interested in moving to Scotland for work or study. |
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No-one up there really believes Scotland is some kind of terrorism magnet, whatever the bampots in London think. |
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Gray possesses an unfortunate East of Scotland birr that suggests a 21-year-old student interviewing for his first job. |
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The British Union Flag incorporates the flags of Scotland, Ireland and England, but has no Welsh representation. |
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The relationship between the nations of England and Scotland by the 1280s was one of relatively harmonious coexistence. |
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Margaret, by now seven years of age, sailed from Norway for Scotland in the autumn of 1290, but fell ill on the way and died in Orkney. |
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Even after Balliol's accession, Edward still continued to assert his authority over Scotland. |
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The defeated Scots appealed to the pope to assert a claim of overlordship to Scotland in place of the English. |
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After a successful campaign in Scotland he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337 but his claim was denied. |
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One source of contention was the king's inactivity, and repeated failure, in the ongoing war with Scotland. |
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Edward reinstated Balliol on the throne and received a substantial amount of land in southern Scotland. |
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One reason for the change of strategy towards Scotland was a growing concern for the relationship between England and France. |
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As long as Scotland and France were in an alliance, the English were faced with the prospect of fighting a war on two fronts. |
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Shortly after this, on 17 October, an English army defeated and captured King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross. |
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Edward III's aggression against Scotland, a French ally, prompted Philip VI to confiscate Guyenne. |
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The new king was already King of Scotland by right of his wife, Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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The outbreak of war was motivated by a gradual rise in tension between the Kings of France and England about Guyenne, Flanders and Scotland. |
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After that, he expected to be left undisturbed while he made war on Scotland. |
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In 1295 a treaty was signed between France and Scotland during the reign of Philip the Fair. |
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Charles IV formally renewed the treaty in 1326, promising Scotland that if England invaded them France would support the Scots. |
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Edward could not succeed in his plans for Scotland if the Scots could count on French support. |
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They later travelled by sea to Scotland to negotiate for Scottish assistance. |
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Warbeck made repeated attempts to incite revolts, with support at various times from the court of Burgundy and James IV of Scotland. |
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By means of this marriage, Henry VII hoped to break the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France. |
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Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland and great grandmother of James I of England. |
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In 1482 Edward charged him to lead an army into Scotland with the aim of replacing King James III with the Duke of Albany. |
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A decree of the English Court of Chancery is not entitled to more respect in Scotland than a decree of the Scottish Court of Session in England. |
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Henry's war and Somerset's war with France and Scotland cost England huge sums of money. |
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Henry now hoped to unite the crowns of England and Scotland by marrying his son Edward to James' successor, Mary. |
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Despite several peace treaties, unrest continued in Scotland until Henry's death. |
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Despite the early success with Scotland, Henry hesitated to invade France, annoying Charles. |
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Elizabeth's first policy toward Scotland was to oppose the French presence there. |
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Darnley quickly became unpopular in Scotland and then infamous for presiding over the murder of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio. |
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He therefore entered into a coded negotiation with James VI of Scotland, who had a strong but unrecognised claim. |
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A few hours later, Cecil and the council set their plans in motion and proclaimed James VI of Scotland as James I of England. |
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Their geographical location provided convenient access to the markets of France, Scotland, Germany, England and the Baltic. |
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It was also the end of the period when England was a separate realm before its royal union with Scotland. |
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In September 1588 the Armada sailed around Scotland and Ireland into the North Atlantic. |
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The intention would have been to keep well to the west of the coast of Scotland and Ireland, in the relative safety of the open sea. |
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Margaret remained in her father's Kingdom of Norway until Autumn 1290, when she was dispatched to Scotland. |
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He ruled until 1651 when the armies of Oliver Cromwell occupied Scotland and drove him into exile. |
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James VII continued to claim the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
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When he died in 1701, his son James inherited his father's claims, and called himself James VIII of Scotland and III of England and Ireland. |
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The Acts joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to form a united Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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At 57 years and 246 days, James's reign in Scotland was longer than those of any of his predecessors. |
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Shortly after a proxy marriage in Copenhagen in August 1589, Anne sailed for Scotland but was forced by storms to the coast of Norway. |
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James returned to Scotland in 1617 for the only time after his accession in England, in the hope of implementing Anglican ritual. |
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James left the church in Scotland divided at his death, a source of future problems for his son. |
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The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland under James was symbolised heraldically by combining their arms, supporters and badges. |
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In response France invoked the terms of the Auld Alliance, her ancient bond with Scotland. |
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In the decades that followed, England's relations with Scotland were turbulent. |
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Scotland was too guid for those that inhabit it, and too bad for others to be at the charge of conquering it. |
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Charles hoped to unite the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland into a new single kingdom, fulfilling the dream of his father. |
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The end of Charles's independent governance came when he attempted to apply the same religious policies in Scotland. |
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The Church of Scotland, reluctantly episcopal in structure, had independent traditions. |
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Without Parliament's support, Charles attacked Scotland again, breaking the truce at Berwick, and suffered a comprehensive defeat. |
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He arrived in Scotland on 22 July 1650 and proceeded to lay siege to Edinburgh. |
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Cromwell's army then took Edinburgh, and by the end of the year his army had occupied much of southern Scotland. |
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Cromwell followed Charles into England, leaving George Monck to finish the campaign in Scotland. |
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Figures for Scotland are more unreliable and should be treated with greater caution. |
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The wars left England, Scotland, and Ireland among the few countries in Europe without a monarch. |
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Into this atmosphere General George Monck, Governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland. |
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When Charles attempted to impose his religious policies in Scotland he faced numerous difficulties. |
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In Scotland, the Scottish arms were placed in the first and fourth quarters with the English and French arms in the second quarter. |
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In the Kingdom of Scotland the Protestant Reformation was a popular movement led by John Knox. |
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Charles' confrontation with the Scots came to a head in 1639, when Charles tried and failed to coerce Scotland by military means. |
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Cromwell divided his army, leaving some in Scotland to continue the conquest and led the rest south in pursuit. |
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Scotland and Ireland regained their Parliaments, some Irish retrieved confiscated lands, and the New Model Army disbanded. |
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For the first two years of the Commonwealth, the Rump faced economic depression and the risk of invasion from Scotland and Ireland. |
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It was into this atmosphere that General George Monck marched south with his army from Scotland. |
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Cromwell left Ireland in May 1650 and several months later invaded Scotland after the Scots had proclaimed Charles I's son Charles II as king. |
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Cromwell's conquest, unwelcome as it was, left no significant lasting legacy of bitterness in Scotland. |
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Although not often favourably regarded, Cromwell's name rarely meets the hatred in Scotland that it does in Ireland. |
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Montrose feared that Charles would accept a compromise, and so chose to invade mainland Scotland anyway. |
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With Cromwell's forces threatening Charles's position in Scotland, it was decided to mount an attack on England. |
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Cromwell was appointed Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, effectively placing the British Isles under military rule. |
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Charles was succeeded by his brother, who became James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland. |
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It was into this atmosphere that Monck, the governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland. |
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However, this was followed by the protracted Williamite War in Ireland and Dundee's rising in Scotland. |
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A separate but similar document, the Claim of Right Act 1689, applies in Scotland. |
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Scotland has its own legislation, the Claim of Right Act 1689, passed before the Act of Union between England and Scotland. |
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As of 2017, the United Kingdom is divided into 650 constituencies, with 533 in England, 40 in Wales, 59 in Scotland, and 18 in Northern Ireland. |
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The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. |
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It was then applied to Scottish Presbyterian rebels who were against the King's Episcopalian order in Scotland. |
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Argyll sailed to Scotland and, on arriving there, raised recruits mainly from his own clan, the Campbells. |
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The Parliament of Scotland on 11 April 1689, declared James to have forfeited the throne. |
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On 11 April, the day of the English coronation, the Convention finally declared that James was no longer King of Scotland. |
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The Act extended to England and Ireland, but not to Scotland, whose Estates had not been consulted before the selection of Sophia. |
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They dream of returning to Edinburgh and taking their rightful place on the throne of Scotland. |
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By the eighteenth century, Scotland had a network of parish schools in the Lowlands and four universities. |
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The headquarters and leadership of the Church of Scotland also remained, as did the universities and the medical establishment. |
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At the union of 1707, England had about five times the population of Scotland and about 36 times as much wealth. |
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Scotland experienced the beginnings of economic expansion that allowed it to close this gap. |
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By the 17th century, Scotland had five universities, compared with England's two. |
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These developments helped the universities to become major centres of medical education and would put Scotland at the forefront of new thinking. |
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In the eighteenth century Scotland reaped the intellectual benefits of this system. |
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Burns, an Ayrshire poet and lyricist, is now widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and became a major figure in the Romantic movement. |
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As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. |
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Scotland produced some of the most significant architects of the period who were involved in the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment. |
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The influence of the movement spread beyond Scotland across the British Empire, and onto the Continent. |
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The foundations of the British Empire were laid when England and Scotland were separate kingdoms. |
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The Caledonian Canal provided a similar function in the Highlands of Scotland. |
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At the time Parliament was considering the route of a railway between England and Scotland and favoured a railway via the west coast. |
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There is evidence that people in Scotland are increasingly likely to describe themselves as Scottish, and less likely to say they are British. |
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However, the specific, traditional music of Wales and music of Scotland is distinct, and of the Celtic musical tradition. |
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In Scotland there are 78 full and associate clubs and nearly 6,000 registered clubs under the jurisdiction of the Scottish Football Association. |
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The most widely practised form of angling in England and Wales is for coarse fish while in Scotland angling is usually for salmon and trout. |
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The Latin word Scotti, originally the word referred specifically to the Gaels, but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. |
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Considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also been used for Scottish people, primarily outside Scotland. |
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Scotland has seen migration and settlement of many peoples at different periods in its history. |
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In the High Middle Ages, from the reign of David I of Scotland, there was some emigration from France, England and the Low Countries to Scotland. |
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Today, Scotland has a population of just over five million people, the majority of whom consider themselves Scottish. |
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In addition, there are many more people with Scots ancestry living abroad than the total population of Scotland. |
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Several doctors to the Russian court were from Scotland, the best known being James Wylie. |
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Many Gaelic speakers emigrated to countries such as Canada or moved to the industrial cities of lowland Scotland. |
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However, large proportions of Gaelic speakers also live in the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. |
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The modern people of Scotland remain a mix of different religions and no religion. |
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In Scotland the main Protestant body is the Church of Scotland which is Presbyterian. |
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The word Scotia was used by the Romans, as early as the 1st century CE, as the name of one of the tribes in what is now Scotland. |
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In modern times the words Scot and Scottish are applied mainly to inhabitants of Scotland. |
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In the English language, the word Scotch is a term to describe a thing from Scotland, such as Scotch whisky. |
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The strikes had begun spreading in Scotland and West Yorkshire from the 13th. |
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Young English people with eating disorders are sent hundreds of miles away to Scotland because the services they need are not available locally. |
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The oldest rocks in the group are in the north west of Scotland, Ireland and North Wales and are 2,700 million years old. |
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However, relatively large areas of forest remain in east and north Scotland and in southeast England. |
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Ice covered almost all of what is now Scotland, most of Ireland and Wales, and the hills of northern England. |
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By the Late Middle Ages, Great Britain was separated into the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. |
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In 1603, that changed when the King of Scotland inherited the Crown of England, and consequently the Crown of Ireland also. |
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The Kingdoms of England and Scotland were unified in 1707 creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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Rugby union is also widely enjoyed across the islands with four national teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. |
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The Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly have powers closer to those already devolved to Scotland. |
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Though the UK parliament remains the sovereign parliament, Scotland has a parliament and Wales and Northern Ireland have assemblies. |
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The Scottish Parliament is the national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital Edinburgh. |
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Murphy is not currently an MSP, the Labour group in the Scottish Parliament is led by their deputy leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale. |
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Unitary Authorities are used throughout Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
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A referendum was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014 which asked citizens whether Scotland should be an independent country. |
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By a margin of approximately 55 percent to 45 percent, people living in Scotland rejected the proposal. |
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The order of precedence in England and Wales is distinct from those of Northern Ireland and Scotland, and from Commonwealth realms. |
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Many nobles, including Alexander II of Scotland for his English possessions, gathered to give homage to him. |
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The Act of Union 1707 merged the English Parliament with the Parliament of Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain. |
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When the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, died in 1603, King James VI of Scotland came to power as King James I, founding the Stuart monarchy. |
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In 1657 he had the Parliament of Scotland unified with the English Parliament. |
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Of the 650 constituencies, 533 are in England, 59 in Scotland, 40 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland. |
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The UUP also indicated that they would not work with the SNP if it wanted another independence referendum in Scotland. |
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Young members in Scotland belong to an independent organisation, called Conservative Future Scotland. |
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The Party lost 40 of its 41 seats in Scotland in the face of record breaking swings to the Scottish National Party. |
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Labour was less successful in Scotland than England and Wales, but retained control of Glasgow despite predictions it would not. |
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By this period, the Labour Party were also the dominant party in Scotland, in terms of electoral support and representation. |
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Historically, the term Lothian referred to a province encompassing most of what is now southeastern Scotland. |
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He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. |
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With a mixed hand and the highest card the curse of Scotland, I've seen that man stand pat in a game with four millionaire mining men. |
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In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained. |
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Another Scotland opportunity went a-begging when John Barclay failed to grasp an offload at the end of some probing phases. |
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This was an interwoven part of the wider multifaceted Wars of the Three Kingdoms, involving Scotland and Ireland. |
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The world's oldest golf tournament, and golf's first major, is The Open Championship, played both in England and Scotland. |
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Various terms have been used to describe England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. |
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This term is also used in the context of potential Scottish independence to mean the UK without Scotland. |
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Subsequent medieval English kings completed the conquest of Wales and made an unsuccessful attempt to annex Scotland. |
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For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 council areas, with wide variation in both size and population. |
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Councillors are subject to a code of conduct enforced by the Standards Commission for Scotland. |
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The Welsh Government and the National Assembly for Wales have more limited powers than those devolved to Scotland. |
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The Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly have powers similar to those devolved to Scotland. |
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The UK does not have a codified constitution and constitutional matters are not among the powers devolved to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. |
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In Scotland water and sewerage services are provided by a single public company, Scottish Water. |
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It is compulsory for pupils to study a second language up to the age of 14 in England, and up to age 16 in Scotland. |
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French and German are the two most commonly taught second languages in England and Scotland. |
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The Learning and Teaching Scotland provides advice, resources and staff development to education professionals. |
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Various styles of music are popular in the UK from the indigenous folk music of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to heavy metal. |
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Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Cardiff, are important centres of newspaper and broadcasting production in Scotland and Wales respectively. |
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In most international competitions, separate teams represent England, Scotland and Wales. |
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England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete as separate countries in international competitions. |
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The sport was created in Rugby School, Warwickshire, and the first rugby international took place on 27 March 1871 between England and Scotland. |
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Sport governing bodies in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland organise and regulate the game separately. |
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Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with the Kingdom of England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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The use of the words Scots and Scotland to encompass all of what is now Scotland became common in the Late Middle Ages. |
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In the winter of 1850, a severe storm hit Scotland, causing widespread damage and over 200 deaths. |
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Roman invasions and occupations of southern Scotland were a series of brief interludes. |
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However, processes of cultural and economic change beginning in the 12th century ensured Scotland looked very different in the later Middle Ages. |
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Edward I, who had coerced recognition as Lord Paramount of Scotland, the feudal superior of the realm, steadily undermined John's authority. |
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War ensued and King John was deposed by Edward who took personal control of Scotland. |
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In 1502, James IV of Scotland signed the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with Henry VII of England. |
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In 1698, the Company of Scotland attempted project to secure a trading colony on the Isthmus of Panama. |
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Scotland also played a major part in the development of art and architecture. |
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Roughly a third of the clergy, mainly from the North and Highlands, formed the separate Free Church of Scotland. |
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Service abroad on behalf of the Empire lost its allure to ambitious young people, who left Scotland permanently. |
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The geographical centre of Scotland lies a few miles from the village of Newtonmore in Badenoch. |
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The whole of Scotland was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages and the landscape is much affected by glaciation. |
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This part of Scotland largely comprises ancient rocks from the Cambrian and Precambrian, which were uplifted during the later Caledonian Orogeny. |
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The climate of Scotland is temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable. |
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Although Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the largest city is Glasgow, which has just over 584,000 inhabitants. |
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There are many more people with Scottish ancestry living abroad than the total population of Scotland. |
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The reasons given were that, in Scotland, births were outnumbering the number of deaths, and immigrants were moving to Scotland from overseas. |
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In 2011, 43,700 people moved from Wales, Northern Ireland or England to live in Scotland. |
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The Church operates a territorial parish structure, with every community in Scotland having a local congregation. |
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The Scottish Parliament has legislative authority for all other areas relating to Scotland, as well as a limited power to vary income tax. |
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Scotland was the first country in the UK to ban smoking in enclosed public places. |
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The Scottish Government's cabinet comprises nine cabinet secretaries, who form the Cabinet of Scotland. |
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The Scotland Office represents the UK government in Scotland on reserved matters and represents Scottish interests within the UK government. |
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The constitutional status of Scotland is nonetheless subject to ongoing debate. |
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The Scotland Act 2012, based on proposals by the commission, was subsequently enacted devolving additional powers to the Scottish Parliament. |
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Historical subdivisions of Scotland included the mormaerdom, stewartry, earldom, burgh, parish, county and regions and districts. |
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Prior to 1611, there were several regional law systems in Scotland, most notably Udal law in Orkney and Shetland, based on old Norse law. |
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This ended with the advent of the Scottish Parliament, which legislates for Scotland. |
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Many laws differ between Scotland and the other parts of the United Kingdom, and many terms differ for certain legal concepts. |
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Manslaughter, in England and Wales, is broadly similar to culpable homicide in Scotland, and arson is called wilful fire raising. |
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Indeed, some acts considered crimes in England and Wales, such as forgery, are not so in Scotland. |
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Healthcare in Scotland is mainly provided by NHS Scotland, Scotland's public health care system. |
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In 2008, the NHS in Scotland had around 158,000 staff including more than 47,500 nurses, midwives and health visitors and over 3,800 consultants. |
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Over the past thirty years, Scotland contributed a relative budget surplus. |
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In 2006, the infantry regiments of the Scottish Division were amalgamated to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland. |
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Because of their topography and perceived remoteness, parts of Scotland have housed many sensitive defence establishments. |
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Proportionally, Scotland had more universities in QS' World University Rankings' top 100 in 2012 than any other nation. |
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Scotland's University Courts are the only bodies in Scotland authorised to award degrees. |
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As one of the Celtic nations, Scotland and Scottish culture is represented at interceltic events at home and over the world. |
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St Andrew's Day, 30 November, is the national day, although Burns' Night tends to be more widely observed, particularly outside Scotland. |
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The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn, which has been a Scottish heraldic symbol since the 12th century. |
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National newspapers such as the Daily Record, The Herald, and The Scotsman are all produced in Scotland. |
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Scotland is represented at the Celtic Media Festival, which showcases film and television from the Celtic countries. |
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It runs three national television stations, and the national radio stations, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio nan Gaidheal, amongst others. |
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Scotland contested the first ever international football game in 1872 against England. |
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The match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club. |
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With the modern game of golf originating in 15th century Scotland, the country is promoted as the home of golf. |
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There are many other famous golf courses in Scotland, including Carnoustie, Gleneagles, Muirfield, and Royal Troon. |
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In boxing, Scotland has had 13 world champions, including Ken Buchanan, Benny Lynch and Jim Watt. |
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The Scottish motorways and major trunk roads are managed by Transport Scotland. |
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Other routes, served by multiple companies, connect southwest Scotland to Northern Ireland. |
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In 1404, Owain was reputedly crowned Prince of Wales in the presence of emissaries from France, Spain and Scotland. |
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At the Olympics Games, Welsh athletes compete alongside those of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland as part of a Great Britain team. |
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To the north, the connection is through the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Malin Sea. |
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Likewise between Northern Ireland and Scotland, Northern Ireland Railways, Stena Line and Abellio ScotRail promote SailRail. |
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Holt at a 1921 meeting in Dublin of fisheries experts from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and France. |
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Great Britain refers geographically to the island of Great Britain, politically to England, Scotland and Wales in combination. |
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His army then proceeded to occupy Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland south of the Forth. |
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Edward I further stimulated the city's economy by using the city as a base for his war in Scotland. |
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South of the gneisses are a complex mixture of rocks forming the North West Highlands and Grampian Highlands in Scotland. |
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Edinburgh and Cardiff are the capitals of Scotland and Wales, respectively, and house their devolved governments. |
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Northern Scotland mainly spoke Pritennic, which became Pictish, which may have been a Brythonic language. |
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Introduced in Scotland by clergyman John Knox, it has the status of national church in Scotland. |
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Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary. |
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The latter, Orkney and Shetland, though now part of Scotland, were nominally part of the Kingdom of Norway until the 15th century. |
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Unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland, Wales is not a separate jurisdiction within the United Kingdom. |
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For instance, the modern UK law of negligence is based on Donoghue v Stevenson, a case originating in Paisley, Scotland. |
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Roman Dutch Common law is a bijuridical or mixed system of law similar to the common law system in Scotland and Louisiana. |
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Acts passed in 1921 and 1925 granted the Church of Scotland complete independence in ecclesiastical matters. |
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Ewing argued that it was offensive to Scots to argue that an English region had the same status as an 'ancient nation' such as Scotland. |
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The nationalist movement in Scotland is associated with flags, strange costumes, weird music and extravagant ceremonial. |
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From the accession of James VI and I in 1603, the Stuart dynasty ruled England in personal union with Scotland and Ireland. |
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On 1 May 1707, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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In 1092, William II led an invasion of Strathclyde, a Celtic kingdom in what is now southwest Scotland and Cumbria. |
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James VI and I ascended the throne of England and brought it into personal union with the Kingdom of Scotland. |
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The Commonwealth fought wars in Ireland and Scotland which were subdued and placed under Commonwealth military occupation. |
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Securing the same succession in Scotland became the primary object of English strategic thinking towards Scotland. |
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England and Scotland were ruled by the same king for the first time in 1603 when James VI of Scotland also became the king of England. |
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One united Parliament sat in Westminster, with 30 representatives from Scotland and 30 from Ireland joining the existing members from England. |
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This republican union was dissolved automatically with the restoration of King Charles II to the thrones of England and Scotland. |
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Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the records of the Parliament of Scotland show much discussion of possible union. |
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Impetus for this incorporating union came almost entirely from King William, who feared leaving Scotland open to a French invasion. |
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In the 1690s, the economic position of Scotland worsened, and relations between Scotland and England became strained. |
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At the head of the list was Queensberry, and the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, the Earl of Seafield. |
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In Scotland, about 100 of the 227 members of the Parliament of Scotland were supportive of the Court Party. |
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In Scotland, the Duke of Queensberry was largely responsible for the successful passage of the Union act by the Scottish Parliament. |
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In Scotland, he received much criticism from local residents, but in England he was cheered for his action. |
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The English purpose was to ensure that Scotland would not choose a monarch different from the one on the English throne. |
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In Scotland, each article was voted on separately and several clauses in articles were delegated to specialised subcommittees. |
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The two Acts incorporated provisions for Scotland to send representative peers from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords. |
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After that personal union, people widely discussed the idea of uniting the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England. |
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In 1603, James VI of Scotland became King of England, joining Scotland with England in a personal union. |
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Scotland is half the size of England and Wales in area, but has roughly the same length of coastline. |
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Geographically Scotland is divided between the Highlands and Islands and the Lowlands. |
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During the 16th century, Scotland underwent a Protestant Reformation that created a predominately Calvinist national kirk. |
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The Parliament of Scotland also emerged as a major legal institution, gaining an oversight of taxation and policy. |
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There were popular courts or comhdhails, indicated by dozens of place names in eastern Scotland. |
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The Parliament of Scotland of 1695 enacted proposals to set up the Bank of Scotland. |
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With the increasing influence and availability of books printed in England, most writing in Scotland came to be done in the English fashion. |
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After his return to Scotland in 1424, he established a shipbuilding yard at Leith, a house for marine stores, and a workshop. |
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Despite truces between England and Scotland there were periodic outbreaks of a guerre de course. |
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Legislative power was vested in the Parliament of Great Britain, which replaced both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. |
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Despite the end of a separate parliament for Scotland, it retained its own laws and system of courts. |
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As a result of the Union of 1707, no new peerages were created in the Peerage of England or the Peerage of Scotland. |
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In 1603 James VI King of Scots became James I of England, uniting the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in a personal union. |
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Political union between England and Scotland was established in 1707 with the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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Northumbria was disputed between the emerging kingdoms of England and Scotland. |
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The land north of the Tweed was finally ceded to Scotland in 1018 as a result of the battle of Carham. |
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However, after the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under King James VI and I, peace was largely established. |
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Late in the year, perhaps shipwrecked on their way to a European exile, Edgar and his family again arrived in Scotland, this time to remain. |
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By the end of 1070, Malcolm had married Edgar's sister Margaret of Wessex, the future Saint Margaret of Scotland. |
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For this reason therefore they parted with great dissatisfaction, and the King Malcolm returned to Scotland. |
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Outside Scotland, Canadian Gaelic is spoken, mainly in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. |
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With the incorporation of Strathclyde and the Lothians, Gaelic reached its social, cultural, political, and geographic zenith in Scotland. |
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Her family also served as a conduit for the entry of English nobles into Scotland. |
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Norman French became dominant among the new feudal aristocracy, especially in southern Scotland, and completely displaced Gaelic at court. |
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This was the beginning of Gaelic's status as a predominantly rural language in Scotland. |
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Clan chiefs in the northern and western parts of Scotland continued to support Gaelic bards who remained a central feature of court life there. |
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That being said, it seems clear that Gaelic had ceased to be the language of all of Scotland by 1400 at the latest. |
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A good start, a strong finish, but it was a Scotland horror show in the middle as the team flirted with Rugby World Cup humiliation. |
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Under the provisions of the Act, it will ultimately fall to BnG to secure the status of the Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland. |
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The ITV franchise in central Scotland, STV Central, produces a number of Scottish Gaelic programmes for both BBC Alba and its own main channel. |
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Since 2005, the SFA have supported the use of Scottish Gaelic on their teams' strip in recognition of the language's revival in Scotland. |
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These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland. |
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Most of Ireland's gas comes through interconnectors between Twynholm in Scotland and Ballylumford, County Antrim and Loughshinny, County Dublin. |
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