The relationship between Scotland and England has been critical in shaping the cultural and political history of Britain over many centuries, yet historians have rarely devoted much attention to it. This book recognises the importance of viewing the national histories of Scotland and England in a wider British context, and shows how rewarding this field of study is. Ranging from the consolidation of distinct Scottish and English kingdoms to the first formation of the modern British state, the essays examine a wide variety of aspects of Anglo-Scottish relations and demonstrate the value of exploring the British dimension of the national histories of both countries.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contributors
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Colonial Scotland: The English in Scotland under Edward I
• 2. The Anglo-Scottish Marches in the Fifteenth Century: A Frontier Society?
• 3. Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval Britain
• 4. Scotching the Brut: Politics, History and National Myth in Sixteenth-Century Britain
• 5. James Henrisoun and ‘Great Britain’: British Union and the Scottish Commonweal
• 6. Two Kingdoms or Three?: Ireland in Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century
• 7. The Price of Friendship: The ‘Well Affected’ and English Economic Clientage in Scotland before 1603
• 8. The Early Covenanters and the Federal Union of Britain
• 9. The Solemn League and Covenant
• 10. Andrew Fletcher’s Vision of Union
• 11. Politics, Politeness and the Anglicisation of early Eighteenth-Century Scottish Culture
• 12. The Scottish ‘Jacobins’, Scottish Nationalism and the British Union
• Index