Kingdom of Great Britain - Name

Name

The Treaty of Union and the subsequent Acts of Union themselves state explicitly that England and Scotland were to be "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". They also refer to the new state as One Kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. The websites of the UK parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the BBC, and others, including the Historical Association, refer to the state created on 1 May 1707, as the United Kingdom of Great Britain. However, the state created by the union of England and Scotland in 1707 is usually referred to as the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The term united kingdom is found in informal use during the 18th century to describe the newly combined kingdom of England and Scotland but only became part of the name of the subsequent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, created in 1801, The Historical Association stated in The Times in 2006 that "The United Kingdom did not come into being until 1800, with the Act of Union with Ireland," although an article on its website now refers to, ""The Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707".