Understanding King James VI & I Conference
@KingJamesConf
Quatercentenary of King James VI&I's death 9-11 July 2025 Team @a_plane1 @nicole_maceira @HistoryJoey @cvspragg @CMaclean96 @OMDunderdale @AshleyTacademic
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!
Finishing this week with the most stimulating and inspiring thoughts thanks to this amazing conference. Many thanks to organisers for these three days of powerful and inspiring papers and roundtables ! And a special thank you for having me talking about James and Esmé.
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’…
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)
For the past year I have been on the most amazing team organising the ‘Understanding King James VI & I 400 Years On’ conference! (1/3) 🧵
We also had James VI & Queen Anna’s marriage medal (1590) made into a badge.
From left to right: £20 piece (1575), laurel (1623-1625), rose ryal (1619-1620) & hat piece (1592).
Coin badges made for the @KingJamesConf alongside the original coins from the Hunterian collection.
Thoroughly enjoyed attending and presenting at this fantastic conference on King James VI and I!! Thank you for having me!
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…
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)
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.
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…
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…
