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The Scottish Parliament (eastern end of the Royal Mile, opposite the Palace of Holyrood House). A unique building (designed by the Spanish (Catalan) architect Enric Miralles) with a £431 million price tag which is much higher than the original back-of-an-envelope estimate. Highly controversi...
EDINBURGH, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The Scottish government on Tuesday put forward a motion to ask the Scottish parliament to give a mandate to continue its work and explore every option for retaining Scotland's relationship with the EU. Making a statement at the Scottish parliament, Scottish First...
the party won more than 30 percent of the Scottish vote and took 11 of the 71 Scottish seats in the BritishParliament. In later years the party was supported consistently in opinion polls by 20 to 25 percent of Scottish voters, making it the second most popular party in Scotland after Labo...
John R. Young, "The Scottish Parliament and Witch-Hunting in Scotland under the Covenanters," Parliaments, Estates and Representation 26, no. 1 (2006). A doctoral thesis on the 1649-1650 hunt was recently completed at the University of Strathclyde by Paula Hughes, and publications arising ...
The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age broch village on the northeast coast of Mainland Orkney in Scotland overlooking Eynhallow Sound, about 15 miles north-west of Kirkwall. It once housed a substantial community. 19 August 2024 Celebrating 20 Years of the Scottish Parliament Building: ALandmar...
News and analysis of Scottish politics and the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood MSPs, political conferences and forums
The punishment of witchcraft had a legislative basis in the 1563 Witchcraft Act passed by the Scottish Parliament. During the period of Covenanting rule in Scotland, the Church of Scotland had a Presbyterian structure and there was an ideological distinction between the 'church' and the 'state'....
Scottish Parliament came into existence in 1999,and it had broad legislative power and other powers to deal with the local affairs.At the same time,Scotland Act 1998 set a risk prevention mechanism against the acting beyond Scottish Parliament's authority.The set of Scottish Parliament speeded up...
List of notable or famous journalists from Scotland, with bios and photos, including the top journalists born in Scotland and even some popular journalists ...