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Creating ‘Great Britain’: The Act of Union 1707
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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 Union with poems such as The Caledonian and his journal The Review, and he celebrated it in his lengthy History of the Union of Great Britain. Because of lax oversight of local government in Scotland by the London Westminster Parliament, Jacobite supporters of King James and his son ‘the Old Pretender’ found sympathizers, which would result in the Jacobite Rising of 1715
Title: Creating ‘Great Britain’: The Act of Union 1707
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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 Union with poems such as The Caledonian and his journal The Review, and he celebrated it in his lengthy History of the Union of Great Britain.
Because of lax oversight of local government in Scotland by the London Westminster Parliament, Jacobite supporters of King James and his son ‘the Old Pretender’ found sympathizers, which would result in the Jacobite Rising of 1715.
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