The Union Flag was adopted as the national flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the acts of Union which created our great United Kingdom in 1801. Today it represents the ...

The two magnificent west towers above the Great ... Britain. The Royal Standard is flown whenever the Sovereign is within the Abbey or its Precincts. It is also flown whenever the Sovereign opens ...

James's central ambition was to make these two very foreign countries into one new state, Great Britain ... National Library of Scotland and the Keeper of Manuscripts is unfolding a set of flag ...

Since Confederation, the Canadian national flag had been the British Union Jack - a symbol of Canada's former colonial status. The Red Ensign - a modified version of the flag of the British ...