Charlie Spragg

ECA-funded PhD student at Uni of Edinburgh exploring King James VI & I's cultivation of a distinctly 'imperial' 'British' European image through art 🏛️

[Charlie Spragg @cvspragg]

For the past year I have been on the most amazing team organising the ‘Understanding King James VI & I 400 Years On’ conference! (1/3) 🧵

[Scottish Historical Review Trust @ScotHistReview]

CFP for the conference 'Scotland's Historic Environments and the British Empire.'

[Cameron Maclean @CMaclean96]

An extremely rare coin weight for a gold halfcrown of James VI & I. Unlike most coin weights which are of base metal, this one's made from silver. From the Hunterian collection.

[Alexander Courtney @DrAlexCourtney]

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 @stevenveerapen, Clare Jackson, Steven Reid and me discussing our man; Laura Stewart chairing.
#Stuarts #KingJames400 #History #Tudors

[Alexander Courtney @DrAlexCourtney]

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.

#KingJames400 #MaryQueenofScots #earlymodern #history
@KingJamesConf @NatGalleriesSco @DrEstellePrnq

[Ashley Brown @AshleyTacademic]

Our conference programme is live! Come join us for our completely online conference 21-23 August! 😍 https://t.co/m7PgYNiEkM

[Charlie Spragg @cvspragg]

@KingJamesConf This experience was deeply special to me on a professional and personal level and I’m so glad so many others felt the same way - I’m happy to say the future of Jacobean studies is in very safe hands! 👑 (3/3)

[Charlie Spragg @cvspragg]

For the past year I have been on the most amazing team organising the ‘Understanding King James VI & I 400 Years On’ conference! (1/3) 🧵

[Charlie Spragg @cvspragg]

The last 3 days have been absolutely incredible… so much excitement, encouragement and synergy amongst our speakers and attendees about this fascinating historical figure and the groundbreaking research he continues to inspire! (2/3)

[Cameron Maclean @CMaclean96]

Coin badges made for the @KingJamesConf alongside the original coins from the Hunterian collection.

[Olivia Dunderdale @OMDunderdale]

What a three days! Thank you so much to all our speakers and attendees! 👑

[Alexander Courtney @DrAlexCourtney]

We all loved this conference. Thank you so, so much to the organisers and the speakers and the audiences in person and online. We must do this again and again!

A better advertisement for scholarly collegiality I cannot imagine.

[Understanding King James VI & I Conference @KingJamesConf]

Thank you to our speakers and attendees for making the conference so special! Wonderful to hear from so many scholars who work on or are intrigued by James VI & I… We hope you will keep the momentum going and we look forward to seeing what the future of Jacobean studies holds!

[Understanding King James VI & I Conference @KingJamesConf]

The ‘Wall of Jameses’ votes have been counted and the winner is… Nicholas Hilliard’s Lyte Jewel (c.1610-11)!!! (Modelled here by our speaker @EmilyHay2)

[Olivia Dunderdale @OMDunderdale]

Giving @cvspragg and I a microphone and the power to quiz a room of academics on the hardest 7 rounds of James VI & I questions? An inspired idea…👑🎤 #understandingkingjames

[Understanding King James VI & I Conference @KingJamesConf]

The King James pub quiz is hotting up!

PhD theses may be affected, careers may be broken…it’s very tense 😬

[Understanding King James VI & I Conference @KingJamesConf]

And we’re off!

DAY ONE, PANEL ONE - Inheritance

Our own Charlie Spragg uses material culture to explain why James’s 1603 coronation set out his stall as a ‘British’, rather than English or Scottish, monarch…

[Ashley Brown @AshleyTacademic]

Really loved presenting a paper at @BristolUni today on early modern Scottish academics and students! Was part of a fantastic panel 😊

[Ashley Brown @AshleyTacademic]

It's so pretty 😍 come see our Fringe show!

[Steven Veerapen @stevenveerapen]

Happy birthday, King Jimmy - born #otd in 1566. The number 19 would become of almost mystical importance to him. Read about his life in ten parties here:

https://t.co/M42HtAXAGw

#stuarts #scottishistory #englishhistory #royal #royalhistory

[Alexander Courtney @DrAlexCourtney]

Happy birthday, JR! #OnThisDay 19 June 1566: King James VI & I was born. 🎉🎉