BBC Two tonight at 9 (and on iPlayer)… A little cameo for Basilikon Doron and @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Happy Powder Treason Night! #earlymodern

Fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @witchykallestrup.bsky.social about The Construction of #Witchcraft in #EarlyModern #Denmark @routledgebooks.bsky.social #skystorians This is how you write a book and take an interview! #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/the-construc...

(reminder) and 'American English' version (@davidveevers.bsky.social ) on Wednesday, 22 October, at 8 am EDT 😁

A pleasure to speak on Mary Stuart’s secret letters on BBC Radio Scotland this morning (though briefly). Listen to The Sunday Show from 1:27:50 onwards. See the English language version of the documentary on BBC iPlayer & BBC Two Mon 21 Oct at 9pm. @labnf.bsky.social #History #Stuarts #Tudors

Tonight, 9pm on BBC Scotland & Monday 20/10, 9pm on BBC Two: ‘The Secret Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots’. Featuring some lovely shots of @selwyn1882.bsky.social and a word or two from me about my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s phenomenal discovery. #StuartSaturday #earlymodern

Most watched 🥳 ‘Marie Stuart: l’énigme des lettres codées’ @artefr.bsky.social #earlymodern #renaissance #monarchy #history

Coming soon on @pbs.org : Cracking the Queen’s Code 22 October #SecretsOfTheDead #EarlyModern #History #MaryQueenofScots youtu.be/lOvLU47e9vc

📣 A regarder ce soir sur ARTE !!! Le documentaire passionant d’Augustin Viatte sur la découverte des lettres codées de Marie Stuart @labnf.bsky.social @artefr.bsky.social @royalstudies.bsky.social #earlymodern #renaissance #StuartSaturday #ScotsHistory www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...

Seuls des rois de la cryptanalyse pouvaient percer le mystère des lettres codées d'une reine ✍️

The wonderful documentary of my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s discovery and decipherment of #MaryQueenofScots lost letters. Beautifully crafted by writer and director Augustin Viatte. On @artefr.bsky.social online now and on TV 🇫🇷🇩🇪 27 September.👇 #earlymodern #history

The wonderful documentary of my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s discovery and decipherment of #MaryQueenofScots lost letters. Beautifully crafted by writer and director Augustin Viatte. On @artefr.bsky.social online now and on TV 🇫🇷🇩🇪 27 September.👇 #earlymodern #history

New podcast episode available in French! Join our host @vic-de-valois.bsky.social and guest speaker Fanny Giraudier as they discuss the "Violence à la cour française" conference. Listen here or on your favourite podcast platform : www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies? Join us on the 8 October to find out more. @royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social bit.ly/41UPOyG

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

James VI of Scotland became Elizabeth’s successor peacefully and was welcomed into England, people’s ‘eyes flaming nothing but sparks of affection’ towards him (as he put it). There was no better supported claimant; no one with a stronger claim. #Tudors #KingJames400 #history #earlymodern

Did the dying Elizabeth I signal that she approved of James VI as her successor? Who knows?! What matters is the story’s meaning. It’s well known that accounts were circulated by English officials as a supplementary argument for James’s lawful claim. #Tudors #KingJames400 #earlymodern

Q. Who had the strongest claim to succeed Elizabeth I? Answer: James VI (as was widely accepted at the time). Here, though, is the succession according to an opponent of James’s claim, Robert Persons, in 1594/5. An elaborate effort to muddy the waters. #Tudors #KingJames400 #earlymodern

Excited to share that I’ve been elected to an IHR Fellowship! ☺️ I have been supported by, and have learnt so much from, many #earlymodern scholars @ihr.bsky.social over the years. I’m thrilled now to have the opportunity to join the Institute and contribute to its work in this way.

Marie Stuart, l’énigme des lettres codées Prochainement sur ARTE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8v6... #MaryQueenofScots #earlymodern #Stuarts #history

Many congratulations to my colleague Emily Vine on the publication of her first monograph! 🎉🥳 Emily expertly explores the crowded metropolis as a place where households of different faiths coexisted during a period of intense change (1605-1780). #EarlyModern 🗃️

Le 26 août à 21h sur France 2 ! Tuer au nom de Dieu, un film de Hugues Nancy, librement inspiré de Tous ceux qui tombent !

Just under a week left to apply to join us as the FCJ postdoc at @durhamtheology.bsky.social in the new academic year! #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism #nuntastic #jobalert

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.bsky.social @nationalgalleries.bsky.social

The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

Our Associate Fellowship category is for those at an earlier stage their research careers - for example, completion of a #History PhD - or History professionals (teachers, curators, archivists etc.) who make research possible. Applications are welcome at any time bit.ly/44r8NTg #Skystorians

King James the Sixth - minus one fifth… @routledgehistory.bsky.social sale! www.routledge.com/James-VI-Bri... www.routledge.com/James-VI-and... #earlymodern #KingJames400 #Stuarts #Tudors

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. #earlymodern

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…

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...

21 June 1582: Entered in the Stationers' Register today, Anthony Munday's 'The English Romayne Lyfe', a highly coloured account of some months spent in the English College in Rome. Among other things, he describes Jesuit self-flagellation, poisonous disputes among the residents... 1/ #earlymodern

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

Nice to see the royal couple side by side about town today! #earlymodern #KingJames400 #Stuarts #ScotsHistory

Registration for the conference is now open 🥳 There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes) We can't wait to see everyone in July!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Text link for registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

This gold medal was made to commemorate the death of Prince Henry, the eldest son of King James VI & I. He would have succeeded his father as king of Scotland, England & Ireland had he not died in 1612. It's one of the Hunterian medals we'll be handling at the upcoming @kingjamesconf.bsky.social

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 🥳🥳

Reading a super-tiresome book… It is exhausting to read an author try so hard to reach, often at full stretch, for an arresting phrase in every other sentence. Why?!? Let your subject (which is interesting and complex enough) speak and let the reader read! #earlymodern

If, like King James VI & I, your love of books is conjoined with an ‘eating canker of want’, fear not! The Routledge April sale lasts for a few hours more! 😜 www.routledge.com/James-VI-Bri... www.routledge.com/James-VI-and... #KingJames400 #earlymodern #Stuarts

Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series! CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach... @kingsartshums.bsky.social

A fantastic opportunity for ECRs! The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social is partnering with National Museums Scotland for the following fellowship: "Materialising the Scottish in Northern Europe, 1500-1750: mobilities, communities and material culture". 🧵/6

Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃

👋New article online! Did you know that "during the #Renaissance, the appearance of #monsters increased greatly... Their #stories were translated, spreading across #Europe..." ? ✍️by Anaïs Fontaine ( @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social ) #EarlyModern #CulturalStudies ehne.fr/en/encyclope...

#OnThisDay 3/4/1603 at St Giles’ Kirk, Edinburgh, James VI speaks on his accession to the English throne: There is no more difference betwixt Londoun and Edinburgh, … as betwixt Invernesse or Aberdeen and Edinburgh … my course must be betwixt both, to establishe peace … #earlymodern

10 new essays on James VI & I in Scotland, Ireland and England. Use code 25AFLY1 for 20% off: www.routledge.com/James-VI-and... #earlymodern #KingJames400 #history

This 400th anniversary of King James VI & I’s death Royal Studies Network has TWO podcast eps on the king! Link below /where you get yours:- buzzsprout.com/1934722 21/2/25 with Charlie Spragg & Nicole Maceira Cumming 7/3/25 with @johannastrong.bsky.social & me #otd #KingJames400

A little piece written for #KingJames400 day today. It was a great pleasure to visit @roystonmuseum.bsky.social to talk about King James VI & I and Royston in October. #earlymodern #otd #history

#OnThisDay 27 March 1625 around noon King James VI & I dies at Theobalds. The Prince (now King) Charles was in his Chamber. When privy councillors came to tell him of his father’s death and to present themselves for his service, he turned them away in his grief. #KingJames400 #earlymodern

Some favourite images of the past year with James VI & I and me! I’m so grateful to all the wonderful, generous people who have shared their interest and expertise in Jacobean history with me, and with whom I have so much enjoyed discussing James’s life and kingship. #KingJames400 #earlymodern

Some snaps from the Cambridge History Forum earlier this month @selwyn1882.bsky.social Great questions from 6th Form audience; talks on historical ‘successions’ With Jonathan Davis @angliaruskinuni.bsky.social and Jessica Sharkey @ueahistory.bsky.social #historyteacher #earlymodern