This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of King James VI and I. The greatest legacy of his reign was the ...

Born into a political and religious maelstrom and the King of Scotland by the age of one, James VI found comfort in many places.

As for James VI and I, the author grabbed at him out ... been overshadowed.” James was crowned King of Scotland at the age of one, after the forced abdication of Mary, adding the English and ...

During the 16th century there were occasional calls for union between England and Scotland. Some believed that the marriage ...

Four hundred years ago, thousands of ordinary people, the vast majority of them women, were hunted down, tortured and killed in witch hunts across Scotland and England. Lucy Worsley investigates what ...

Maria Clementina Sobieski – one of just three women buried in St Peter’s Basilica – lived a life of extraordinary defiance ...

the first Stuart king of England, dodger of the Gunpowder Plot... and one of the first people to ride in a submarine? It sounds crazy, but James I (or James VI in Scotland) may well have been one ...

Scotland’s only landlocked region is often overlooked by tourists heading deeper into the Highlands, but is riven with ...

The third and final act has the most poignant music of all as Mary’s concern for her child (the future King James VI of Scotland ­– and James I of England) causes yet more personal anguish.

James McAvoy will return home to Glasgow today ... by a special screening of his breakthrough role in The Last King of Scotland. Reeves loans £2bn in frozen Russian assets to fund weapons in ...