Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, announces plans for a second referendum on independence to be held on 19 October 2023. She has vowed to take legal action to ensure a vote even if the UK Parliament does not agree. This move has been hastened and enabled by Brexit (the UK’s exit from the EU) in 2016, two years after the first independence referendum went down 45-55. We will be closely following developments in this matter.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
