Aid arrived in the form of the Union. Video: Scotland's Empire: The Americas.

The Treaty and Act of Union came into effect on 1st May 1707 having swiftly passed through both Houses of Parliament in England. The ultimate securing of the treaty in the Scottish Parliament can ...

England may be far from the Muslim-majority world, but the "green and pleasant land" has had many interesting links to Islam.

In a paper to be published next year, Dr Siobhan Talbott argues the Franco-Scottish Auld Alliance of 1295 survived centuries of enmity and war between Britain and France – even after the Act of Union ...

Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1832 explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the ...

Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond, who died last week, made Scottish nationalism mainstream. His independence ...

Though some MPs on both sides of the border opposed the Act of Union in 1707, England was the more resentful, upset at ...

Of all the thousands of tributes paid to Alex Salmond since his untimely and premature death the one that best sums up Alex ...

The latter held out against an attack in 1400 from Harry Hotspur and the English, and remained as a “noble residence” until after the Act of Union in 1707. But one of the most spectacular survivals is ...

In February 1841, United Canada's new constitution came into effect. Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine withdrew from a Lower Canadian election when confronted by a mob near the only polling place in a ...

International soccer is full of intense rivalries, but let’s be honest, some of them have deeper roots than just a tough ...

As this documentary by Brett Story and Stephen Maing chronicles, the efforts to unionize a warehouse in New York were ...