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The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland unite. 1934: Scottish National Party founded. 1938: The Empire Exhibition, Scotland is held at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. 1941: The Clydebank Blitz (13–15 March). 1943: Creation of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to bring electricity to all parts of the Highlands and ...
James VI's various measures to exert control included the Statutes of Iona, an attempt to force clan leaders to become integrated into the rest of Scottish society. This started a slow process of change which, by the second half of the 18th century, saw clan chiefs start to think of themselves as commercial landlords, rather than as patriarchs ...
Modern Scotland is half the size of England and Wales in area, but with its many inlets, islands and inland lochs, it has roughly the same amount of coastline at 4,000 miles. Only a fifth of Scotland is less than 60 metres above sea level. Its east Atlantic position means that it experiences heavy rainfall, especially in the west.
English: Here is the family tree of all the English and Scottish monarchs and all their different ruling Houses up to present time with the current monarch Charles the IIIrd of the United Kingdom. I decided to start this chart with Alfred the Great, first king of the Anglo-Saxons on the English side and on the Scottish one, with Alpín mac ...
Scottish society in the Middle Ages is the social organisation of what is now Scotland between the departure of the Romans from Britain in the fifth century and the establishment of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. Social structure is obscure in the early part of the period, for which there are few documentary sources.
This is a family tree for the kings and queens of Scotland, since the unification under the House of Alpin in 834, to the personal union with England in 1603 under James VI of Scotland. It includes also the Houses of Dunkeld , Balliol , Bruce , and Stewart .
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Scottish society adopted theories of the three estates to describe its society and English terminology to differentiate ranks. [115] Serfdom disappeared from the records in the fourteenth century [116] and new social groups of labourers, craftsmen and merchants, became important in the developing burghs. This led to increasing social tensions ...