After World War II, Scotland's economic situation became progressively worse due to overseas competition, inefficient industry, and industrial disputes.

After World War II, Scotland's economic situation became progressively worse due to overseas competition, inefficient industry, and industrial disputes.

After a protracted campaign South Uist residents took control of the island on 30 November 2006 in Scotland's biggest community land buyout to date.

After winning the election, the SNP-controlled Scottish Government published a White Paper entitled Choosing Scotland's Future, which outlined options for the future of Scotland, including independence.

After the creation of Scotland's Scottish Parliament the number of Scottish seats at Westminster was reduced, and his Edinburgh Central seat was abolished.

* After Hours: Forward to Scotland's Past, a 1987 album by the Battlefield Band

After two years under this format, it was decided to invite a different South American team to compete each year to create more excitement and to fulfil England and Scotland's desire to regularly play ' stronger ' teams ( which was one of their reasons for leaving the British Home Championship ).

* 1987 After Hours: Forward to Scotland's Past

After the break Scotland hit back, Sean Cusack scoring Scotland's first ever try.

After a strike in 1837, the trade union's power deteriorated, and industrial progress could be introduced throughout Scotland's cotton industry.

After he returned to Scotland, he wrote various political pamphlets, two novels, and several poems, The Harp ( 1789 ), The Carse of Forth, and Scotland's Skaith, the last against drunkenness, but is best known for his songs, such as My Love's in Germany ( My Luve's in Germanie ) My Boy Tammy, I lo ' ed ne ' er a Laddie but ane, and Come under my Plaidie.

After Scotland's union with England in 1707, several Scottish thinkers pondered the relationship between progress and the ' decadence ' brought about by increased trade with England and the affluence it produced.

After Scotland's poor performance in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifiers, Hamilton was appointed captain of the Scottish One Day International team in April 2009, replacing Ryan Watson.

** After a night of stormy weather a ferry has run aground on Scotland's coast, with passengers remaining on board rather than evacuating in stormy weather.

After Scotland's union with England in 1707, several Scottish thinkers pondered on the relationship between progress and the ' decadence ' brought about by increased trade with England and the affluence it produced.

After investigation by the Roman Catholic Church John Ogilvie was canonised by Pope Paul VI, in 1976, and he became Scotland's first saint since the reformation and for over 700 years.

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

After Victoria's death, the royal family continued to use Balmoral during annual autumn visits.

After the baronial victory at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, Simon de Montfort took control of royal government, but at the Battle of Evesham the next year Montfort was killed, and King Henry III restored to power.

After c. 500 BC the Persian term " Paradise " ( Hebrew פרדס, pardes ), meaning a royal garden or hunting-park, gradually became a synonym for Eden.

After the Norman conquest, Hertfordshire was used for some of the new Norman castles at Bishop's Stortford and at the royal residence of Berkhamsted and at King's Langley, a staging post between London and the royal residence of Berkhamsted.

After or just before the dissolution, the Electors of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, and Hanover each took the title of king of his former electorate ( in the case of Hanover after regaining his lands following Napoleon's defeat in 1814 ) while the King of Prussia extended his royal title to cover his erstwhile Electorate of Brandenburg as well as the lands he held as king outside the imperial border.

After an education at various schools around the United Kingdom and spending parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, Harry eschewed a university education in favour of following in the footsteps of various royal men by enrolling in the military.

After a short stay at the Leipzig Conservatory, in 1876 he went to study at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels after King Alonso's personal secretary, Guillermo Morphy obtained him a royal grant.

After Braddock's defeat in 1755, royal approval for a new regiment, as well as funds, were granted by Parliament just before Christmas 1755 – hence the regiment's traditional birthday of Christmas Day.

After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them and to draw up horoscopes for her children.

After Pope Clement X ( 1670 – 76 ) died, Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) again intended to use his royal influence against Odescalchi's election.

After the completion of the temple, Solomon is described as erecting many other buildings of importance in Jerusalem ; for the long period of 13 years he was engaged in the building of a royal palace on Ophel ( a hilly promontory in central Jerusalem ); Solomon also constructed great works for the purpose of securing a plentiful supply of water for the city, and the Millo ( Septuagint, Acra ) for the defense of the city.

After the war, Raghad fled to Amman, Jordan where she received sanctuary from the royal family.

After leaving office, Grant embarked on a two-year world tour that included many enthusiastic royal receptions.

After the House of Burgesses was dissolved by the royal governor in 1774, Virginia's revolutionary leaders continued to govern via the Virginia Conventions.

After having lost its status of royal city, it became the préfecture ( regional capital ) of Seine-et-Oise département in 1790, then of Yvelines in 1968, and a Roman Catholic diocese.

After his resignation in October 1761, the King urged Pitt to accept a mark of royal favour.

After waiting a short while, William secured Dover, parts of Kent, and Canterbury, while also sending a force to capture Winchester, where the royal treasury was.

After Napoleon had been sent into exile, William adopted a new constitution which included much of the old constitution, such as extensive royal powers.

After 1657 it was in the French royal library, from which it passed to the Bibliothèque Nationale, where the manuscript was studied by Jacob Grimm in 1815.

After a year in Italy, the royal court returned to Germany, where Theophanu would die in Nijmegen on June 15, 991, at the age of 31.

After a century of civil wars a new royal family emerged, which strengthened the power of the crown at the expense of the nobility, while giving the nobles privileges such as exemption from taxation in exchange for military service.

After the rebellion and liberation in 1660, Molde became the administrative headquarter of Romsdalen Amt and was incorporated through a royal charter in 1742.

After Sultan Hassan, Brunei entered a period of decline, due to internal battles over royal succession as well as the rising influences of European colonial powers in the region, that, among other things, disrupted traditional trading patterns, destroying the economic base of Brunei and many other Southeast Asian sultanates.

* 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.

After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1772, his son Timur Shah became the next ruler of the Durrani dynasty who decided to make Kabul the new capital of the empire, and used Peshawar as the winter capital.

After Duke Eudes's defeat, Aquitaine pledged allegiance formally to the new rising Carolingian dynasty, but still remained out of Frankish central rule until 768 ( Duke Waifer defeated ).

After Cao Cao reunified the north in 208, his son proclaimed the Wei dynasty in 220.

The Carolingian dynasty ceased to rule France upon the death of Louis V. After the death of Louis V, the son of Hugh the Great, Hugh Capet, was elected by the nobility as king of France.

After the Tang dynasty there emerged a line dividing Asia into two groups, those who depend on milk products ( India, Tibet, Central Asians ) and those who reject those foods.

After the Shehab dynasty converted to Christianity, the Druze community and feudal leaders came under attack from the regime with the collaboration of the Catholic Church, and the Druze lost most of their political and feudal powers.

After the decline of the Durrani dynasty in 1823, Dost Mohammad Khan established the Barakzai dynasty after becoming the next Emir of Afghanistan.

After his death, the Hohenstaufen dynasty fell, followed by an interregnum during which there was no Emperor.

After the Battle of Buxar in 1764, the company acquired the rights of administration in Bengal from Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II ; this marked the beginning of its formal rule, which within the next century engulfed most of India and extinguished the Moghul rule and dynasty.

After these lines ended in extinction, the electors began to elect kings from different families so that the throne would not once again settle within a single dynasty.

After trade relationships were established with the Ming dynasty of China by King Satto of Chūzan in 1372, some forms of Chinese martial arts were introduced to the Ryukyu Islands by the visitors from China, particularly Fujian Province.

After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.

After the deaths of Jogaila and Vytautas, the Lithuanian nobility at times attempted to break the union between Poland and Lithuania, independently selecting Grand Dukes from the Jagiellon dynasty.

After the Eighty Years ' War, Luxembourg became a part of the Southern Netherlands, which passed to the Austrian line of the Habsburg dynasty in 1713.

After the Khitans left Mongolia the Shiwei Mongols rose to prominence, when from the 1130s there were reciprocally hostile relations between the successive khans of the Khamag Mongol confederation ( Khaidu, Khabul Khan and Ambaghai Khan ) and the emperors of the Jin dynasty.

After the fall of the Northern Song dynasty, and during the reign of the Jin ( Jurchen ) and Yuan ( Mongol ) dynasties in northern China, a common speech developed based on the dialects of the North China Plain around the capital, a language referred to as Old Mandarin.

After the death of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia in 1618, his son-in-law John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg, inherited the duchy, including the lake-region ( later Masuria ), combining the two territories under a single dynasty and forming Brandenburg-Prussia.

After the fall of the Thakuri dynasty, a new dynasty was founded by Arideva or Ari Malla, popularly known as the ' Malla Dynasty '.

After Shah's death, the Shah dynasty began to expand their kingdom into what is present day North India.

After Owain's death, there was little resistance to English rule until, in the 16th century, the Tudor dynasty, whilst allowing Welshmen to become more prominent in English society, saw Owain's revolt as a catastrophe for Wales.

After the extinction of the Ottonian dynasty with the death of Henry II in 1024 the crown passed to the Salian dynasty.