In a paper to be published next year, Dr Siobhan Talbott argues the Franco-Scottish Auld Alliance of 1295 survived centuries of enmity and war between Britain and France – even after the Act of Union ...

Edinburgh today is home to the nation’s devolved parliament, established in 1999. The flamboyant building, symbolic of a new phase in Scottish nationalism (but designed by a Spanish architect), stands ...

The Scottish Parliament does not have a second chamber like the House of Lords. Instead, it has a powerful committee system which can propose as well as scrutinise bills. Committees are made up of ...

The pro-independence Scottish National Party leader said she anticipates that a vote will take place “in the earlier part” of the next Scottish parliament, which begins next year.

Three Edinburgh SNP councillors have announced they are bidding to stand as candidates for the party in next year's Scottish Parliament elections. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

And in 1707, the Act of Union came into force, doing away with the Scottish Parliament for the next nearly three hundred years. Burns deplored what he saw as an unpopular constitutional merger ...

A frontbench Scottish Tory MSP has announced she will not seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament next year, pointing to ...