Act of Union

It is, one Lib Dem minister told the Lords this week, "the biggest transfer of fiscal responsibility within the UK since the Act of Union in 1707".

Alex Salmond: free reign | Editorial 2011

The authors note that the widespread demise of the country houses in Ireland began as early as 1800 with the Act of Union joining Great Britain and Ireland and the weakening of the native Irish aristocracy.

Gift books Post 2010

The Act of Union, therefore, was not based on the false presupposition that Edinburgh was "as British as Finchley".

Can Cameron learn from Harper's 'open federalism'? Burke's Corner 2008

But Stair was never brought to trial, and though he was forced to resign, soon returned to politics - and was one of the chief architects of the Act of Union in 1707.

Archive 2008-06-29 de Brantigny........................ 2008

But Stair was never brought to trial, and though he was forced to resign, soon returned to politics - and was one of the chief architects of the Act of Union in 1707.

Massacre at Glencoe de Brantigny........................ 2008

Set against the political problem of the 1800 Act of Union, which abolished the Irish Parliament and sought to invent an unproblematic unit called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, The Wild Irish Girl focuses on the romance between Glorvina O'Melville, a Gaelic princess, who teaches one Horatio Mortimer, the son of an English absentee landlord, the error of his ignorant, colonising ways, and the value of Irish culture and epistemology.

Women writers - Sydney Owenson 2008

Long before the Act of Union, this aspect of our island history was visible in the eclecticism with which its people sought their rulers: the Tudors from Wales, the Stuarts from Scotland, William of Orange from Holland, and the House of Hanover from Germany.

Britain, my Britain 2007

Legally I wouldn't label Wales as a country, since the Act of Union need to check the name of the enabling Act which brought Wales under England.

Whats in a name Glyn Davies 2007

The same man who wrongly claimed that the Act of Union inspired the Titans of the Scots Enlightenment such as Hume.

Quiz Question: Who Said This Today? 2007

Long before the Act of Union, this aspect of our island history was visible in the eclecticism with which its people sought their rulers: the Tudors from Wales, the Stuarts from Scotland, William of Orange from Holland, and the House of Hanover from Germany.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007