Had a wonderful time speaking at #RSA2025 this morning alongside Charlie Spragg and Gabriel Lonsberry on our panel “Keeping Up Appearances: Royal Bodies in Jacobean Britain” (even as a Marian interloper!) 👑

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 🥳🥳

Dale and Carl have very different ideas on how to get the best out of the guys they work with Tickets for Fringe are on sale now, find them through the QR code

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: nls.uk/papercut/james… #stuarts #scottishistory #englishhistory #royal #royalhistory

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

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

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

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…

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

Giving Charlie Spragg 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

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.

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 Emily Hay)

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!

Coin badges made for the Understanding King James VI & I Conference alongside the original coins from the Hunterian collection.

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

Our conference programme is live! Come join us for our completely online conference 21-23 August! 😍 engender-academia.com/conference-202…

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 Understanding King James VI & I Conference National Galleries of Scotland Dr Estelle Paranque