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Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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.

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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 @emilyhay.bsky.social)

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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!

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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…

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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…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Amilia Gillies explores how James handled and responded to various ‘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…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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…

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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…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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 ‘gossip’ or godfather to the couple and their children…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Elizabeth Rébeillé-Borgella discusses James’ relationship with his first favourite, Esmé Stuart, duke of Lennox. She argues that their short relationship was so successful because it was based on ‘reciprocity, loyalty and love’…

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DAY THREE, PANEL ONE - Influential Relationships Laura Leslie dissects James’s childhood relationship with his ‘Deddy’ and ‘Minny’, the earl and countess of Mar. His time with the Mars’ was a formative and underappreciated aspect of James’ reign…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Next, Laura Bauld talks us through James in the Burrell Collection and curating LGBT+ histories.

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Kate Anderson talks us through the accessibility measures of the NGS exhibition, including these two recreations of James's jewels for visually impaired visitors.

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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.

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Witches?🧙 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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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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.

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

And now, time for questions after three stimulating talks!

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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.

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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...

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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 👑

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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 📖👑

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

DAY TWO, PANEL TWO - Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Rima Greenhill explains the complex relationship between James and the Russians during his English reign…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ashley Brown suggests that the relationship between James and the Scottish universities was ‘an exercise in patience’…once again, there was a high degree of tension!

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

DAY TWO, PANEL ONE - Loci of Control Joe Ellis talks us through the political efficacy of James’s royal progresses. ‘The political’, he suggests, was a monarchs capacity to police a spatial framework, and his subjects ability to negotiate a place within it…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The King James pub quiz is hotting up! PhD theses may be affected, careers may be broken…it’s very tense 😬

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Tristan Marshall shows that James recognised how politics necessitated performance. He negotiated with institutions and subjects by wearing different ‘masks’ dependent on the audience. Attaining the English crown was ‘the greatest performance of James’s life’…

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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…

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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 ‘Trianglia’! Characteristically, James himself promoted different visions for different audiences…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Fergal Leonard explains how the people of the West March responded to the uncertainty and opportunities related to James’s English succession…naturally, some were more foolhardy than others, upsetting both James and Queen Elizabeth

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DAY ONE, PANEL THREE - Regional Governance Brenna Clark explains King James’s role in developing law and society in Orkney and Shetland. He implemented a gradual, discreet approach to integrating the islands into wider Scots law…but not without issues from certain noblemen

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Maria Katsulos (online) finds that portraits of James, from childhood onwards, contain several elements that are removed from contemporary notions of masculinity. Indeed, visual representations are decidedly ‘queer’, separating James from his Stewart and Tudor forebears…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Nicole Maceira Cumming counters the narrative of distraction in her paper on James VI’s hunting practices 🐎 Rather than hunting being an escape from state business, it reinforced hierarchies through sartorial display and was a mechanism of ‘soft power’

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

DAY ONE, PANEL TWO - Material and Visual Culture Alexandra Plane delves into James’s intellectual, emotional and material encounters with books 📚 the books he owned tell us not only about James’s own interests, but were ‘tools of power and image-making’…

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Emily Hay explains how James rejected the attempts of others to vilify his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. Although their relationship remained highly transactional in life, James honoured his mother with her magnificent tomb many years after her death

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Kate McGregor compares the reign of James VI to that of James V to reveal a strong correlation between the two. 16th century contemporaries noted a number of similarities…but also significant differences

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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…

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Getting us all very excited for your paper if this is the stuff which won't make it in!

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Registration has now closed and we cannot wait to have everyone join us next month 🥳 we will circulate more information for attendees in the coming weeks and share the final programme but do get in touch if you have any questions!

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Today is the last day to register! We are very excited to see how many attendees there will be in Glasgow and online, it’s going to be a fantastic few days 🤩 so don’t miss out …

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Tomorrow is the final day to register for what will be, if we do say so ourselves, a fantastic event. It is going to be a lot of fun 🤩

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 THERE ARE STILL A FEW DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER 😃 Join us in Glasgow (or ONLINE) from 9-11 July for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ... Scan the QR code below or access the link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

UPDATE: Registration will now be open until 8 June Join us in Glasgow (and online!) from 9-11 July for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables😃 see the programme below ... Scan the QR code on the poster to register now 🥳🥳

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

On 9 July we are hosting a workshop on 'Establishing yourself as a PGR' @uofglasgow.bsky.social The event is supported by @sgsah.bsky.social & is open to any PGRs. You don't need to be attending the conference! For full details see below 😀 Text version: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 1 WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER 😃 Join us in Glasgow from 9-11 July (and online!) for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ... eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

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Understanding King James VI & I: 400 years on

A multi-day conference with accompanying workshops and activities that interrogate James' rich life and legacy.

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Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The earliest numismatic depiction of James VI appears on this gold £20 piece. It was minted in 1575 when the king was 9 years old & was the heaviest gold coin struck for circulation in the British Isles up to that point. It's one of the Hunterian coins we'll be handling at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social

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Understanding King James VI & I Conference @kingjamesconf.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Don't forget to register by the 8 June. It is safe to say we are all very excited ... Not only do we have an amazing line-up of speaker panels & roundtables but there will also be 3 fantastic workshops, a concert of Jacobean music & even a James pub-quiz (👑🍺) to enjoy🎉🤯

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