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Conference to mark the Quatercentenary of King James VI&I's death 9-11 July 2025, Glasgow (Scotland) https://understandingjames.wixsite.com/kingjamesconf

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Thank you to everyone that came to my coin handling workshops at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social It was an absolute privilege to get to introduce (most of) you to James VI & I’s coins.

11.07.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The β€˜Wall of Jameses’ votes have been counted and the winner is… Nicholas Hilliard’s Lyte Jewel (c.1610-11)!!! (Modelled here by our speaker @emilyhay.bsky.social)

11.07.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

11.07.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finally, we have the Biographers Roundtable.

Laura Stewart talks with Alex Courtney, Steven Reid, Clare Jackson and Steven Veerapen about what inspired them to write about King James, how they feel about the man himself, and how they see scholarship moving forward…

11.07.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Jennifer Ng argues that James’s Gentlemen of the Bedchamber were central to Jacobean diplomacy. Bedchamber spheres and spaces infiltrated the court with sites of reconciliation, and created paths to peaceful negotiations abroad…

11.07.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amilia Gillies explores how James handled and responded to various β€˜scandals’ between 1614-21. His involvement in the Suffolk and Lake cases reveal James’s role as an administrator of justice in these overlooked years…

11.07.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DAY THREE, PANEL TWO - Court Dynamics

Georgianna Ziegler looks at one remarkable letter from Esther Inglis to the king in 1620, which points to the openness of the pre-accession royal city that she remembered…

11.07.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ashlyn Cudney joins us online to discuss the issues and opportunities involved in teaching James VI/I as a queer king. She suggests that teaching James in the context of queer theory enables students to become active participants in the narrative-making process…

11.07.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Megan Shaw joins us online from New Zealand to discuss the adoption of the Villiers kin into the royal family. Crucially, this was reinforced when Villiers - duke of Buckingham - married Katherine Manners and James became a β€˜gossip’ or godfather to the couple and their children…

11.07.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Elizabeth RΓ©beillΓ©-Borgella discusses James’ relationship with his first favourite, EsmΓ© Stuart, duke of Lennox. She argues that their short relationship was so successful because it was based on β€˜reciprocity, loyalty and love’…

11.07.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DAY THREE, PANEL ONE - Influential Relationships

Laura Leslie dissects James’s childhood relationship with his β€˜Deddy’ and β€˜Minny’, the earl and countess of Mar. His time with the Mars’ was a formative and underappreciated aspect of James’ reign…

11.07.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next, Laura Bauld talks us through James in the Burrell Collection and curating LGBT+ histories.

10.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kate Anderson talks us through the accessibility measures of the NGS exhibition, including these two recreations of James's jewels for visually impaired visitors.

10.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our panellists discuss attracting target audiences, new scholarship on James and provide a wonderful insight into the choices and challenges behind the scenes of the curatorial process. So great to hear about recreating James's world for audiences through material culture.

10.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Witches?πŸ§™ MQS? 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our panelists discuss how we might recenter & reevaluate popular perceptions of James, objects and material culture, including the process of creating the current National Galleries Scotland exhibition and Glasgow Life's film on their 1618 James portrait.

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DAY TWO - Heritage and Curation

Our first of two roundtables focuses on James's representation in the heritage sector, discussing our panelists' experience as curatorial professionals, popular presentations of James and how we might reshape these in the future.

10.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And now, time for questions after three stimulating talks!

10.07.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our final speaker on the panel, Vanessa Barcelos joins us online from Miami, providing a close reading of James' pamphlet, 'A Counterblaste to Tobacco', as active racial discourse against indigenous Americans.

10.07.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up, Alexander Courtney talks us through James' pamphlet 'The True Lawe of Free Monarchies' as an intervention into Scottish domestic politics and religion and a response to his various adversaries...

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DAY TWO, PANEL THREE - James' Writings

Luca Tenneriello shares his experiences translating James' famous treatise Basilikon Doron into Italian...

10.07.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DAY TWO - Coin Workshop

Cameron Maclean leads a wonderful session on James’s coinage in Scotland and England at the Hunterian - Kelvin Hall.

A fantastic workshop showing the range of ways that coins were used to represent the king πŸ‘‘

10.07.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DAY TWO - Book Workshop

Our own Alexandra Plane leads a wonderful session on Jacobean books in University of Glasgow Library. A fantastic workshop showing James's learning influences, library and writings πŸ“–πŸ‘‘

10.07.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hanna Mazheika talks us through the relationship between James and the Reformed nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. She questions how far James’s influence was about to reconcile religious factions in eastern Europe…

10.07.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DAY TWO, PANEL TWO - Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Rima Greenhill explains the complex relationship between James and the Russians during his English reign…

10.07.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ashley Brown suggests that the relationship between James and the Scottish universities was β€˜an exercise in patience’…once again, there was a high degree of tension!

10.07.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DAY TWO, PANEL ONE - Loci of Control

Joe Ellis talks us through the political efficacy of James’s royal progresses. β€˜The political’, he suggests, was a monarchs capacity to police a spatial framework, and his subjects ability to negotiate a place within it…

10.07.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The King James pub quiz is hotting up!

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

09.07.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tristan Marshall shows that James recognised how politics necessitated performance. He negotiated with institutions and subjects by wearing different β€˜masks’ dependent on the audience. Attaining the English crown was β€˜the greatest performance of James’s life’…

09.07.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DAY ONE, PANEL FOUR - Court Theatre

Gabriel Lonsberry argues that James came to recognise the power Queen Anna and Prince Henry instilled in Stuart court masques. As such, he started to re-centre their form and content around himself, for the same ends…

09.07.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Joseph Wagner untangles the competing visions of Union and transoceanic ventures around 1603. There were a number of options, one of which was to rename the archipelago β€˜Trianglia’! Characteristically, James himself promoted different visions for different audiences…

09.07.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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