Further Reading

This website draws on my published work and a rich array of recent research by other scholars. See links for open-access texts for articles.

For more on popular politics, petitioning and violent resistance, see

• Bowie, K. (2011) Popular politics and the making of the Union of 1707. History Teaching Review Yearbook 25, pp. 15-24.
• Bowie, K. (2007) Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
• Bowie, K. (ed.) (2018) Addresses against Incorporating Union, 1706-07 Woodbridge: Boydell Press for Scottish History Society
• Bowie, K. (2020) Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707. Cambridge University Press. (See chapter 6).
• Bowie, K. (2008) Popular resistance and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of union. Scottish Archives 14, pp. 10-26.

For more on the politics of the making of the Union, try these books published for the tercentenary of Union in 2007.

• A detailed analysis of the making of the Union is provided by Christopher Whatley’s The Scots and the Union.
• For a closer look at Anglo-Scottish trading relations, see Allan Macinnes, Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707.
• Michael Fry’s The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707 provides a more narrative approach focused on parliamentary politics.

For more details on the management of the Scottish parliament, see

• Bowie, K. (2008) Publicity, parties and patronage: parliamentary management and the ratification of the Anglo-Scottish union. Scottish Historical Review 87(Sup 2), pp. 78-93. 
• Bowie, K. (2015) Newspapers, the early modern public sphere and the 1704-5 Worcester affair. In: Benchimol, A., Brown, R. and Shuttleton, D. (eds.) Before Blackwood’s: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. Pickering & Chatto: London, pp. 9-20

For more on the Company of Scotland, the Darien Scheme and the Union, see

• Douglas Watt, The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations (2007)