
A Short History of Scotland and England's Union
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Scotland and the Lords of the Isles
Scotland is a fully centralised kingdom with the exception of Orkney and Shetland. But Edinburgh still has to bring outlying parts of what is now Scotland under its control. And then my favourite of all the British kingdoms that have ever existed, I think, is Dalrieta - which extends the western als of Scotland into the north of Ireland as well. It's a coalescence of Norman feudalism and Gallic social organisation.
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