SIR, - I agree with Grant Frazer's main point in Monday's Letters about the teaching of Scottish history, but not with the simplistic view of the Scottish
Act of Union underlined by Burns' sad song written nearly a century after the event.
IN his letter ("Prince William should say no", WM, July 5) Lewis Yeoman said "there has never been an
Act of Union between England and Wales".
1800: The Irish parliament passed the
Act of Union with England.
Forgetting Burns opposed the
Act of Union, the publicity stunt was billed as an attempt to celebrate the UK, and persuade us the Tory Government care about Scotland.
He considers this episode in its historical, economic, and social contexts, focusing on the exercise of power in the wake of the turbulent 1790s, the suppression of the rebellion, the
Act of Union, and the failure to grant Catholic Emancipation.
IN the matter of the imminent referendum to decide whether or not Scotland votes to end the Union, a vital point does not appear to have been given little or any attention, namely that in the event of a Yes vote it is the UK Parliament of Command, Lords and the sovereign who have to agree to repeal the
Act of Union with Scotland, 1707.
DEPUTY presiding officer David Melding will today call for a new
Act of Union to recognise the sovereignty of each of the home nations.
2 The
Act of Union joined which two kingdoms to form Great Britain on May 1, 1707?
More than 150 years before England and Scotland would formally become joined, the 1536
Act of Union with Wales was brought into law.
Cameron has been a committed supporter of the Union with Scotland, which was enshrined in the
Act of Union in 1707, and technically, can block a move for Scottish independence since major constitutional reforms are the prerogative of the Westminster Parliament.
He went on to campaign peacefully to end the
Act of Union which had combined Ireland and Great Britain in 1801.
Rather than questioning the 1801
Act of Union or the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921, the founder of the Warrington Foundation for Peace raises transcending religious difference and integrated education schools.