Frost, Robert2023-03-202023-03-202023-03-17Frost, R 2023, 'Towards a History of Compromise : Comparing Political Unions in the British-Irish Isles and Poland-Lithuania', Journal of the British Academy, vol. 11, pp. 43-74. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011.043ORCID: /0000-0001-8828-5204/work/131351812https://hdl.handle.net/2164/20319Acknowledgements I would like to thank the British Academy for inviting me to deliver the Raleigh Lecture, and Queen’s University Belfast for hosting the lecture despite the restrictions imposed during the Covid epidemic, and for the warmth of its welcome. Richard English was the perfect host and chair. I’d like to thank all those in the audience, both in the hall and online, who asked such interesting and challenging questions. This expanded text owes much to their insights and probing of the issues. In particular, I’d like to thank John Brewer, who first inspired me to think about compromise from the historian’s point of view, and Alvin Jackson for his pioneering comparative work on the Scottish and Irish unions, which provides much food for thought. I owe a great debt to Michael Brown, Colin Kidd, Michael Keating, and Sean Connolly, who read drafts of the text; they saved me from many infelicities, and their comments and suggestions were invaluable. Any infelicities that remain are entirely my responsibility.321434169engHistory of CompromisePolish-Lithuanian UnionAnglo-Scottish UnionBritish UnionUnion of Great Britain and IrelandTrustcompromiseD History (General)D1Journal article10.5871/jba/011.04311