Adrian Vanson’s, James VI and I (detail) - National Galleries of Scotland You have to wonder whether history would have been kinder to James VI & I if he had ended up being beheaded. His mother, Mary, ...

The compressing effect of history tends to reduce British monarchs to a few words and deeds. Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, went through wives like handkerchiefs, in the process breaking ...

The dramatic miniseries chronicles the rise of a charismatic young man and his scheming mother during the reign of King James VI and I in early 17th century Britain. By Angie Han Television Critic ...

This essay examines manuscript additions to a copy of the first printed work by James VI/I, The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie (1584), held in Winchester College Fellows’ Library.

Posterity has not been kind to James VI and I, said Lucy Hughes-Hallett in The Telegraph. The first king to rule both Scotland (where he was James VI) and England, he presided over a sustained period ...