Photo credits

The Union Question illustrates its articles with photographs of the places where Scotland's constitutional debate has been decided and argued over: parliaments in Edinburgh, London and Barcelona, the squares where people gathered, and the towns and landscapes of the regions we write about. Every image comes from Wikimedia Commons, where its author placed it in the public domain or released it under a free licence. Each is credited under the image and listed here.

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• The debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament (seen on: the 2018 consent dispute). Photo attributed to the Commons user Jamieli. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain

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• The Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood, 2024 (seen on: home page). Photo: Darren J. Prior. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY 4.0
• The Palace of Westminster from the Thames (seen on: the road after the No vote). Photo: Julian Herzog. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY 4.0
• The Palau del Parlament de Catalunya, Barcelona (seen on: the Catalan declaration of independence). Photo: JasonParis. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY 2.0

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Under the share-alike condition of these licences, our cropped and resized copies may be reused on the same terms as the original files.

• Saltires at the Scotland–England border (seen on: the case put to England in 2014). Photo: Barbara Carr. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Voting in Guinardó, Barcelona, 1 October 2017 (seen on: Catalonia, 1 October 2017). Photo: Teresa Grau Ros. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Mural commemorating 1 October in front of a polling station in Sant Andreu, Barcelona (seen on: the Catalonia 2017 dossier). Photo: Felato. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 4.0
• A pro-independence rally in George Square, Glasgow (seen on: Hope over Fear, 2017). Photo: Thomas Nugent, via geograph.org.uk. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 2.0
• The Meadows, Edinburgh (seen on: Edinburgh between referendums). Photo: Mike Pennington, via geograph.org.uk. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 2.0
• The weir and the old bridge over the Nith, Dumfries (seen on: Dumfries and Galloway). Photo: Mike Pennington, via geograph.org.uk. Wikimedia Commons file page · CC BY-SA 2.0

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