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IN DECEMBER 1688, THE authority of King James VII, Scotland’s last Catholic ruler and most self-consciously ‘absolute’ monarch, collapsed. As recently as the summer, James’s govern...

The purpose of this chapter is to locate the discussion about Muslims in Scotland in relation to questions of national identity and multicultural citizenship. While the former has ...

The chapter examines Brexit and the Scottish question, arguing that the UK secession from the EU may be the trigger for Scotland’s secession from the UK. While Scottish voters had ...

At the time of writing, politics within Scotland and the UK is experiencing a period of uncertainty, with issues such as Brexit, Scottish nationalism, the ‘refugee crisis’ and cont...

Written at the time of the accession of a Scots king to the English throne, Henry V has been called a ‘succession play’. Yet although critics have discussed the play’s representati...

The creation of ‘Great Britain’ by the 1707 Act, under Queen Anne, united England and Scotland. The prolific poet and pamphleteer Daniel Defoe travelled to Scotland to promote the ...

THE REVOLUTION SETTLEMENT OF 1689–90 repudiated many of the principles and policies of royal government in the Restoration period. But while their responses were different, James V...