While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.

While the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

While George was away working in Scotland, Robert was brought up by a succession of neighbors and then by George's unmarried sister Eleanor ( Nelly ), who continued living with them in Killingworth on George's return.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War, it continued apace in Scotland, with 400, 000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.

While his farming activities continued, in 1764 he went on a geological tour of the north of Scotland with George Maxwell-Clerk, ancestor of the famous James Clerk Maxwell.

While on a fishing holiday in Scotland, Wimsey instigates and takes part in the investigation of the murder of an artist, related in Five Red Herrings.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

While there, Honorius ruled that the Bishop of St Andrews was to be subject to the Archbishop of York and in the more contentious issue, he attempted to circumvent his way around the problem by declaring that Thurstan was subject to William de Corbeil, not in his role as Archbishop of Canterbury, but as papal legate for England and Scotland.

While his father visited his lands from Scotland to France, Richard probably stayed in England.

While there are scores of malt-whisky distilleries, there are currently only seven non-malt grain distilleries in Scotland, most located in the Scottish Lowlands.

While support for breaking up the UK was strongest in Scotland, there was still a clear lead for unionism over nationalism.

While working as librarian at Xavier Junior College, Mother St. Margaret of Scotland ( Sister Margaret Beaton ) recognized that documents of historical significance to Cape Breton Island were being lost.

While there are few records, the Vikings are thought to have led their first raids in Scotland on the holy island of Iona in 794, the year following the raid on the other holy island of Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

While William was in Normandy, Edgar the Ætheling returned to Scotland from Flanders.

While " Black Agnes ," Countess-consort Dunbar and March, continued to resist the English laying siege to Dunbar Castle, hurling defiance and abuse from the walls, Scotland received some breathing space when Edward III claimed the French throne and took his army to Flanders, beginning the Hundred Years ' War with France.

While she was attempting to raise further support for the Lancastrian cause in Scotland, her principal commander, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, gained a major victory for her at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460 by defeating the combined armies of the Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury.

While living in Scotland, he briefly came out of retirement to play several games for Dundee United as understudy to Hamish McAlpine.

While merely informing others of the new name is enough for it to take legal effect, those whose births are registered in Scotland or have been legally adopted there can optionally apply to the Registrar General for Scotland to have their birth certificate amended to show the new name and have the respective register updated.

While this ballad is specific to Scotland, the motif of capturing a person by holding him through all forms of transformation is found throughout Europe in folktales.

While England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland diverge in the more detailed rules of common law and equity, and while there are certain fields of legislative competence devolved in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and London, there are substantive fields of law which apply across the United Kingdom.

While Scrooge had to leave for Scotland to attend to family business, John again protested against his father's relationship with the " filthy peasant ".

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

While the Scandinavian branch emphasizes pantheist spirituality rooted in medieval and contemporary Scandinavian folklore, the American branch postulates a " native religion of the peoples of Northern Europe " reaching back into the paleolithic.

While Bruni and Machiavelli used the term to describe the states of Northern Italy, which were not monarchies, the term res publica has a set of interrelated meanings in the original Latin.

While the classical writers had been the primary ideological source for the republics of Italy, in Northern Europe, the Protestant Reformation would be used as justification for establishing new republics.

While Home Secretary, Peel helped create the modern concept of the police force, leading to officers being known as " bobbies " ( in England ) and " Peelers " ( in Northern Ireland ).

While historically Peter's planned war against Denmark was seen as being a political failure, recent scholarship has portrayed it as part of a pragmatic plan to expand Russian power westwards — he saw gaining territory and influence in Denmark and Northern Germany as more useful to Russia than taking East Prussia.

While there were many non-communist members of the NLF, they were subject to the control of the party cadres and increasingly side-lined as the conflict continued ; they did, however, enable the NLF to portray itself as a primarily nationalist, rather than communist, movement, despite being in almost direct control by the Northern regime.

While there are not many Gold Rush era ghost towns still in existence, the remains of the once-bustling town of Shasta have been preserved in a California State Historic Park in Northern California.

While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Fishburn in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners especially from the Durham district ( 1873 ) and to its use in County Durham ( 1930 ).

While his father remained in England, Wright and his four sisters returned to Northern Ireland, where he was raised in a children's home in Mountnorris, South Armagh ( a predominantly Irish nationalist area ).

While Zhang Qian did not succeed in this mission, his reports of the west provided even greater incentive to counter the Xiongnu hold on westward routes out of China, and the Chinese prepared to mount a large scale attack using the Northern Silk Road to move men and material.

While Northern Norway ultimately fell, efforts there allowed the Norwegian government, including the Norwegian royal family, to escape and maintain the legitimate government in exile, as part of the Allies.

While the linen industry survived to some degree in Ulster until well into the 1960s, increased fabric imports from the Far East led to tremendous difficulties for the industry across Northern Ireland.

While Alabama became a state in 1819, until the 1830s, much of Northern Alabama was still officially Cherokee territory.

While the Tuoba migrated south and established the State of Dai ( 310-376 ) and Northern Wei dynasty ( 386-534 ) the Shiwei remained in the north but eventually paid tribute to the Northern Wei ( for example the Wuluohu sub-tribe started paying tribute in 444 ).

While the company's retail market is Northern Ohio, its products have acquired a reputation that extends far beyond its local retail market and are available for shipping anywhere via the company's website.

While the truce was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds, and some arrangement beyond the Home Rule Act 1920 provisions was in prospect, it was also evident that the IRA military campaign had not secured the 32-county republic claimed by the Dáil, and that a separate government in Northern Ireland was now functioning.

While the wind is a summer condition ( hot inland, cool oceanside ), winter weather is right in line with the rest of sea level Northern California ( mild with occasional rain ).

While living in Northern California, she attended Cloverdale High School and also Pacific Union College Preparatory School.

While religious tests for students at Oxford and Cambridge ceased in the 1850s, Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a different, distinct type of teaching.