↑Murdoch, Alexander (2007). «England, Scotland, and the Acts of Union (1707)». Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (em inglês). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96282. Consultado em 20 de junho de 2021. 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).