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