Abstract
Scotland ceased to be a distinct political entity with the Act of Union in 1707. Much of its structure was preserved, a distinct legal system and a distinct national church. But the essential element in the nineteenth-century concept of nationalism, an effective power of self-government, has not been available to Scots since the early eighteenth century.
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The New Testament in Scots, trans. W. L. Lorimer (1983); rev. edn (London, 1985).
There were a number of earlier translations, one by Murdoch Nisbet produced around 1520, but not printed till 1901–5, and several in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For details, see Graham Tulloch, A History of the Scots Bible (Aberdeen, 1989).
Marinell Ash, The Strange Death of Scottish History (Edinburgh, 1980), p. 151.
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Webster, B. (1997). Introduction: The Problem of a Scottish Identity. In: Medieval Scotland. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25402-6_1
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