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

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 ...

Written by Atkinson, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, the series follows the fortunes of Blackadder down the ages as an ...

A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released ...

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With a public apology secured, Claire Mitchell KC & Zoe Venditozzi fight on for a pardon and are spreading the word with a podcast and tartan memorial ...

By D.G. Martin  “The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

"James VI and I [he was the sixth King James of Scotland and the first of England] had a huge impact on the witch trials," explains co-author Mitchell, who is also a practicing KC (barrister ...

Historically, the paintings were used as a show of power. The earliest example in the royal collection is the state portrait of James I of England, James VI of Scotland, from 1620.