http://www.scran.ac.uk
This is a useful starting point for an online investigation of Scotland in the Union period. The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network site gives access to the web-holdings of the main national collections, including photographic examples of pamphlets written in the propaganda war over the Union with key extracts; photographs of Parliament Hall and Parliament Square in Edinburgh; engravings such as The Downsitting of Parliament; portraits of prominent political figures such as the Duke of Hamilton; artefacts such as the recently re-assembled chest of the Company of Scotland.

http://www.nls.ac.uk/catframe.htm
The online catalogue of the National Library of Scotland, allowing staff and senior students to identify all primary and secondary sources relating to the Union period which are held in the NLS, as well as in other linked databases around Scotland.

http://www.museum.scotland.net
The new Museum of Scotland website. It contains a useful timeline of Scottish History as well as a fun pick-a-date function, which gives some background to the year of 1707 and indicates something of the wider context in terms of what else was happening across Europe at the time.

http://www.treeofliberty.com/480cgi
A Scottish American ex-pat website of all things Caledonian with all the pros and cons of this kind of database. However, it has several useful links to other relevant sites which deal with aspects of Scottish history and culture.

http://scottishhistory.com/shread3.htm
Provides a helpful starter bibliography of secondary history books for the early modern period 1500-1800.

http://www.forscotland.com/aou.html
A complete text of all 25 articles of the Treaty of Union as well as a copy of the equally important Act for Securing the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Government in Scotland which 'bought off' much of the popular opposition to the idea of union with England. There is also a useful list of the Scottish Parliamentary Commissioners who voted for Union with details of the funds, pensions and/or back salary which they received from the Crown. Older students will enjoy the forthright commentary which permeates this site and there is a useful exercise for them here in trying to identify which of the author's statements have a basis in historical fact. Another American Scottish History site

http://hometown.aol.com/Skyelander/timeline.html
Useful for teachers who want to get younger pupils thinking critically about the historical material offered up on parts of the web, by examining the lack of balance in the way in which Scottish events from Darien to Union are presented in this timeline-based site.

http://www.svtc.org.uk/scothist/
A very promising site, designed to support the Intermediate and Higher Level syllabi in detail, is currently under construction under the auspices of Learning and Teaching Scotland, the successor body to the SCCC and SCET. This will in due course provide short primary source extracts to support teaching and learning about all aspects of the Union period syllabus.