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This is actually part of a TL of mine however work on it is going slow due to commitments in actual work.
Pretty much what happens directly relevant to this is:
1: England wins 100YW
2: Lots of English rebellions against French rule in the 16th century.
3: Scotland moves away from Franco-English sphere of influence (after being very heavily under it previously) and invades and takes northern England.
4: Around 1600 southern England finally manages to establish its nationhood as a republic.

And yes- this rebellion is quite an analogue to the Dutch rebellion (did I mention Burgundy is the major English backer? :p)
Of course the world would be a very different place even apart from this, in the actual TL concerned this is very much the case (Crusader Egypt, Dutch-Burgundy super kingdom, capitalist revolutionaries, no reformation, etc...) but meh. That's another load of matters.


How would you see such a Britain developing?
I think this is really quite a interesting split; for one thing its far more 'natural' then the modern ideas of Scottish and English.
How would a industrial revolution take off with the capitalist south split off from the industrial north?
 
I hope I just posted at the wrong time of day here...Or maybe I made too much mention of it coming from a TL rather then just wondering how such a Britain would work out (which is the aim)...
 
It paints an interesting picture and I'm still figuring out how the demographics will work out into a political view. Having seen the border I can't see Scotland being the first to industrialise.

saying that, a lot depends on who industrialises first, be it Scotland or England and as for England its industrial heartland was/is the Midlands and not the North as is commonly believed.

As for the North, well I can see a moving of power away from the lowland Scots and the Midlothian Valley into the area of Yorkshire/Lancashire with the Scottish Highlands being even more neglected or even a source of conflict.
 
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