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    Romanticism in Scotland was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that developed between the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries...
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    Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of...
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    Victorian era were William Burn and David Bryce. Romanticism in Scotland coincided with a Scottish national identity during the 19th century, and some...
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    Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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    husband William III. In April, the Scottish Convention held that James "forfeited" the throne of Scotland by his actions, listed in the Articles of Grievances...
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    The Acts of Union (Scottish Gaelic: Achd an Aonaidh) were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England...
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    "Relations Worsen". Scotland 1689–1707. National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 12 October 2020. Text of the Union with Scotland Act 1706 as in force today (including...
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    May 1707, which merged the kingdoms of Scotland and England. Before this, she was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702. Anne was...
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    England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1702. Though she had had seventeen pregnancies, of which five resulted in live births, her only surviving child died in 1700...
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    Flag of Great Britain (category 1606 establishments in Scotland)
    flag of Scotland At the funeral of King James in 1625 the flag was called the "Banner of the Union of the two Crosses of England and Scotland". James...
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    lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England) impaling Or a lion rampant within a tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); II Azure three fleurs-de-lys...
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    authors in the burgeoning Romanticism movement, and the trip itinerary was in part a literary pilgrimage to the places associated with Scottish figures...
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    related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about 1798...
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    Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Scholars regard the publishing...
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    Kingdom of Great Britain (category 18th century in Scotland)
    law—remained in use. The formerly separate kingdoms had been in personal union since the 1603 "Union of the Crowns" when James VI of Scotland became King...
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    outside the established Church of England (except in Scotland, where the established Church of Scotland was Presbyterian), They proclaimed a devotion to...
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    the kingdom of Scotland and the kingdom of England, which included Wales. The kingdom of Ireland remained separate, but was represented in the royal arms...
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    Scottish Gaelic (/ˈɡælɪk/, GAL-ick; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic...
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  • population List of cathedrals in Scotland List of oldest buildings in Scotland "Scottish Cities | Scotland.org". Scotland. Retrieved 2023-10-29. "Royal...
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    House of Commons of Great Britain (category 1707 establishments in Great Britain)
    in Scotland had been held in the autumn of 1702, and from 1707 only forty-five of the members of the Parliament of Scotland joined the new house. In Scotland...
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    War of Jenkins' Ear (category 1739 in Great Britain)
    to 1748 between Britain and Spain. The majority of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea, with major operations largely ended by...
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    Parliament of Great Britain (category 1707 establishments in Great Britain)
    Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ratified...
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    British Agricultural Revolution (category History of agriculture in the United Kingdom)
    percentage of the diet than in Ireland. Hundreds of thousands died in the famine, and millions more emigrated to England, Wales, Scotland, Canada, Australia,...
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    participants in the Seven Years' War, which in fact lasted nine years, between 1754 and 1763. British involvement in the conflict began in 1754 in what became...
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    national identities. Tom Nairn argues that Romanticism in Scotland did not develop along the lines seen elsewhere in Europe, leaving a "rootless" intelligentsia...
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    Whiggism (category Liberalism in the United Kingdom)
    1760, the Whigs still included about half of the leading families in England and Scotland, as well as most merchants, dissenters, and the middle classes...
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  • Education in Scotland is provided in state schools, private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. Mandatory education in Scotland begins for...
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    Acts of Union 1800 (category 1800 in British law)
    personal union with that of Scotland upon the Union of the Crowns in 1603. In 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland were united into a single...
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    the Hielands; Scottish Gaelic: a' Ghàidhealtachd [ə ˈɣɛːəl̪ˠt̪ʰəxk], lit. 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland.[failed verification]...
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    the 2011 census, Christianity was the largest religion in Scotland, chosen by 53.8% of the Scottish population identifying when asked: "What religion, religious...
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