Against the paranoid backdrop of the Scottish witch trials, a murder plot involving King James and some of his lovers took ...

This show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery uses portraits, letters, clothes and elaborate jewellery to evoke the monarch’s times ...

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In the 1590s, King James VI of Scotland's fear of witchcraft began stirring up national panics, resulting in the torture and death of thousands. Toil and TroubleAn engraving reproduces Henry ...

James VI of Scotland & I of England is the subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. We’re joined by the historical writers Lucy Hughes Hallett and Steven ...

In a way, King James I of England is lucky. His predecessor Elizabeth was one of the most powerful and infamous monarchs in history, and his successor Charles got his head chopped off. Between ...

and more thorough than Thomas Cogswell in James I: The Phoenix King in Penguin Monarchs (its remit means we lose sight of the VI part, as the series includes Cromwell but excludes Robert the Bruce).

You have to wonder whether history would have been kinder to James VI & I if he had ended up being beheaded ... of the first colonial plantations in Virginia, commissioned the King James Bible and ...