England’s Union with Scotland

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
4 min readJan 24, 2024

England and Scotland have a long and bloody history spanning over 700 years going back to the forging of the Kingdom of England in the early 10th century by the first King of the English King Athelstan, who ruled as king of England from 927 A.D. until he died in 939 A.D.

The reason for the conflict and future conflicts is due to England by its very nature, and the superiority of its geography for growing crops means that it will always have a much larger population than its other neighbours in the British Isles.

England has the advantage of a grain supply and an environment that is more friendly for human flourishing.

This will, in turn, lead to political and military power, making the kings of England the dominant political power within the British Isles until current times.

That’s why various kings in the British Isles and the North Sea, including the Scottish kings, tried strangling the birth of the Kingdom of England when it was first created to avoid subjugation.

Then, from the Norman conquest in 1066 A.D. onwards, the kings of Scots regularly allied with the kings of France to have the English fight and have them fight a two-front war against the French and against the Scots to the north.

Since the Norman conquests, Scottish kings have regularly pillaged and attacked the North of England with William the Conqueror and his son William II, known to history as William Rufus, regularly engaged in conflicts against King Malcolm III

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.