(en) Alexander Murdoch, « England, Scotland, and the Acts of Union (1707) », sur Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DOI10.1093/ref:odnb/96282, consulté le ) : « On 1 May 1707 England and Scotland (since 1603 a union of crowns) became the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain'. The new united kingdom was to be represented by a ‘union’ flag and governed by a British parliament at Westminster and a shared head of state (with the contentious issue of monarchical succession now settled in favour of the protestant house of Hanover). »
(en) Alexander Murdoch, « England, Scotland, and the Acts of Union (1707) », sur Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DOI10.1093/ref:odnb/96282, consulté le ) : « On 1 May 1707 England and Scotland (since 1603 a union of crowns) became the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain'. The new united kingdom was to be represented by a ‘union’ flag and governed by a British parliament at Westminster and a shared head of state (with the contentious issue of monarchical succession now settled in favour of the protestant house of Hanover). »