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No other event in Scottish history is more controversial than the Union. In the noonday of empire, the events of 1707 were, for most historians, the culmination of Scottish history, whose distinctive qualities had existed only to be subsumed: Bruce and Wallace, those doughty fighters for freedom, were the forerunners of the negotiated partnership of the British Empire, with its stress on the internationalism of the British concept. Sir John Seeley’s idea (in his Expansion of England (1883)) of a greater British history, which saw ‘the internal union of the three kingdoms’ as an avatar of ‘a still larger Britain comprehending vast possessions beyond the seas’ was the high water mark of this perspective, one which arguably diluted Englishness and which gave Scotland, through the global access of its professional classes and pioneers, a status within the British partnership it could never have had while remaining a small overshadowed northern kingdom in an island off the coast of continental Europe.1
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Pittock, M.G.H. (2001). Scotland’s Ruin?. In: Scottish Nationality. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62906-6_3
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