The most important consideration in the making of the United Kingdom in 1707 was the standpoint of England. Under William of Orange, England had been consolidated as a global power by the massive ...

The political unification of Scotland and England was sealed in 1707 with the creation of one parliament for both countries, based at Westminster. Union would only happen if a treaty could be agreed ...

The Acts of Union in 1707 between England and Scotland led to the creation of Great Britain. The English and Welsh crowns had been “united” much earlier in 1284 under the auspices of the ...

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 ...

THE UNION between Scotland and England in 1707 created the United Kingdom. Since then Scotland has provided prime ministers, such as Gordon Brown, intellectual luminaries like Adam Smith and David ...

His synagogue was called the Hambro Synagogue. In 1707, Jewish life in England was tenuous. Officially Jews had only been permitted to return to England, barely fifty years earlier, by Oliver ...

That's the situation of Scotland. Should it dissolve the union with England that created Great Britain in 1707? Well, there is one poll that came out yesterday showing a neck-and-neck race in the ...

Before the country became the United Kingdom in 1707, the monarch would have been known as the King or Queen of England. All Welsh Celtic kingdoms were incorporated into England in the 16th century.