In September 1715, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, raised the standard for a 'Jacobite' rising, intended to restore the exiled Stuart monarchy to ... for financing the British government's debt.

James's accession meant that the three separate kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland were now united, for the first time, under a single monarch ... economy of the British colonies in ...

Her reign of 61 years is currently the second-longest for a British monarch after Queen Victoria ... and Scottish history. Alfred the Great, King of Wessex from 871 to 899, led the Anglo-Saxon ...