It’s wonderful public interest in James VI & I’s life and reign is rising, AND that readers can turn to several new books about him.📚
Here are Steven Veerapen, Clare Jackson, Steven Reid and me discussing our man; Laura Stewart chairing.
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James VI of Scotland became Elizabeth’s successor peacefully and was welcomed into England, people’s ‘eyes flaming nothing but sparks of affection’ towards him (as he put it).
There was no better supported claimant; no one with a stronger claim.
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Did the dying Elizabeth I signal that she approved of James VI as her successor? Who knows?! What matters is the story’s meaning.
It’s well known that accounts were circulated by English officials as a supplementary argument for James’s lawful claim.
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Q. Who had the strongest claim to succeed Elizabeth I? Answer: James VI (as was widely accepted at the time).
Here, though, is the succession according to an opponent of James’s claim, Robert Persons, in 1594/5. An elaborate effort to muddy the waters.
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On the trail of James VI & I… and the (no longer) lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scots…🔍🦄👑
Some highlights of a very special fortnight in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Paris.
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King James the Sixth - minus one fifth… @routledgehistory.bsky.social sale!
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Nice to see the royal couple side by side about town today! #earlymodern #KingJames400 #Stuarts #ScotsHistory
If, like King James VI & I, your love of books is conjoined with an ‘eating canker of want’, fear not!
The Routledge April sale lasts for a few hours more! 😜
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10 new essays on James VI & I in Scotland, Ireland and England.
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This 400th anniversary of King James VI & I’s death Royal Studies Network has TWO podcast eps on the king! Link below /where you get yours:-
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21/2/25 with Charlie Spragg & Nicole Maceira Cumming
7/3/25 with @johannastrong.bsky.social & me
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A little piece written for #KingJames400 day today.
It was a great pleasure to visit @roystonmuseum.bsky.social to talk about King James VI & I and Royston in October. #earlymodern #otd #history
#OnThisDay 27 March 1625 around noon King James VI & I dies at Theobalds.
The Prince (now King) Charles was in his Chamber. When privy councillors came to tell him of his father’s death and to present themselves for his service, he turned them away in his grief. #KingJames400 #earlymodern
Some favourite images of the past year with James VI & I and me!
I’m so grateful to all the wonderful, generous people who have shared their interest and expertise in Jacobean history with me, and with whom I have so much enjoyed discussing James’s life and kingship.
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#OnThisDay 22/3/1625 James VI & I is at Theobalds. Thomas Erskine, earl of Kellie writes:
‘I praye, God save the King, and that he maye have noe more sutche fitts as he had last nycht … he is a seeke man and worss then I love to wret.’
The king’s death approaches.
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Such a pleasure to record this Royal Studies podcast episode on my biography of King James VI with @johannastrong.bsky.social:
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Look who’s turned up this morning! 🥳 Thank you SO much to the contributing authors, my co-editor Michael Questier and the wonderful team @routledgehistory.bsky.social
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10 new essays on James VI & I.
Publishing March 2025, from Routledge.
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BBC2 tonight at 9: a first blast of Jacobean TV for 2025!
Lucy Worsley Investigates Gunpowder Plot
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#OnThisDay 19 November 1589, James VI first meets his consort Anna of Denmark at Upslo (Oslo).
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