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07/06/2023

‘King James Did What?! With Who?!’: Anne Murray, the mistress of James VI

In recent years, James VI & I has featured heavily in the uncovering and celebrating of hidden histories. A cursory Google search finds him referred to as homosexual, bisexual, and a ‘queer king’. The...

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08/03/2023

Anti-Popery, Scottish Identity, and the Uses of Travel at the Early Stuart Court

In the Jerusalem section of his 1632 travel account, the Scottish adventurer William Lithgow paused to tell a story that had taken place closer to home, in Whitehall. One day in 1612, Lithgow wrote,...