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

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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 ...

The World of King James VI and I exhibtion opening at the National Portrait Gallery in EdinburghThis special, one-off exhibition will chart the remarkable reign of King James VI and I, marking the ...

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 ...

A childhood thank you letter written by King James VI of Scotland aged seven is to go on show later this month as part of a new exhibition. In the letter, the first known to have been written by ...

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