The Union of Parliaments, which marked the beginning of an institutional and economic union with England, ushered in the 18th century in Scotland in 1707.
Confrontations, disappointments, and open disputes were nonetheless present in this partnership. Up until 1745, political squabbles and armed revolutions dominated the Scottish landscape. The Highlands were opened to anglo-saxon influences when the final Jacobite insurrection was put down, and the second part of the century saw an economic and cultural boom.
- Enseignant: Demaubus Thierry