James 1st of Scotland

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15/02/2023

Bonnie Prince Charlie - TONIGHT (Wednesday 15th) - Black Bull Gartmore

08/04/2022

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08/04/2022

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07/10/2020

In today’s fabulous blog (Part 2 of 2) Professor Richard Oram explores the history of Kate Barlass / Catherine Douglas. History, Myth and Modern Folk Tale. Victorian Literature and the Making of the Modern Kate Barlass.

Kate Barlass – Catherine Douglas History, Myth and Modern Folk Tale Part 2   Victorian Literature and the Making of the Modern Kate Barlass   Professor Richard Oram   Following George Gilfillan’s publication in 1860 of Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets most academic and a...

14/09/2020

In today’s exciting blog (Part 1 of 2) Professor Richard Oram explores the history of Kate Barlass / Catherine Douglas. Did she really exist, or was she just myth, and the fuel for a modern folk tale?

Kate Barlass – Catherine Douglas   History, Myth and Modern Folk Tale   Part 1   Historical Sources and the Legacy of one Dodgy Dundonian   Professor Richard Oram   Romance, myth and history have been closely interwoven in the many re-tellings of the life and reign of King James I that began ...

06/09/2020

In our final blog for , Perin Westerhof Nyman uses textile evidence to explore the royal involvement in the often overlooked funeral ceremony of Margaret Tudor at

A Fitting Funeral? The Memorials of Margaret Tudor Perin Westerhof Nyman University of St Andrews   On 18 October 1541 Scotland lost its dowager queen Margaret Tudor, throwing her son’s royal household into mourning and triggering the flurry of work and preparations that necessarily accompanied a...

01/09/2020

Margaret Tudor, Perth, and Margaret Douglas. Today our guest blogger HelenNewsome explores the traces of a mother-daughter relationship in a holograph letter sent from Perth in August 1536

Margaret Tudor, Perth, and Margaret Douglas   Helen Newsome University of Sheffield   Despite being buried at Perth Charterhouse, we know surprisingly little about Margaret Tudor’s activities in the city of Perth. However, five of Margaret Tudor’s letters which were sent from Perth survive tod...

24/08/2020

Our second blog for offers a frank discussion about pregnancy, childbirth and grief in late from guest blogger
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10/08/2020

Our return from a summer break begins with four August blogs exploring Margaret Tudor – the 'other queen' buried at
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Rituals to Celebrate Perpetual Peace. The Marriage of Margaret Tudor and James IV in 1503   Dr Lucy Dean, Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands   The Carthusian Charterhouse at Perth was a royal foundation conceived in part as a mausoleum by James I and his wife, Joan Beaufor...

13/06/2020

James I wasn’t a philosopher, being principally engaged with strategy & power (vested interests) through diplomacy & violence but he was alive at a time of intellectual upheaval & his thoughts were moulded by this evolutionary development & clash of ideas

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 6). Religion creates its own Frankenstein monster. The critical search via reason for universal laws of nature. Dr. Ray Scott Percival   In his book The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark conjectures that it was the Christian emphasis on a law-like stru...