Clare Jackson | The Mirror of Great Britain
Recorded: Sun 26 Apr 2026
Duration: 1 hour
Clare Jackson | The Mirror of Great Britain
Spring 2026
Though best known as the intended victim of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, James VI of Scotland and I of England was a major intellectual, whose preoccupations ranged from witchcraft and theological controversy, to hunting, diplomacy, poetry and sartorial fashion. Watch this event from our Spring 2026 Festival as prize-winning Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge, brings her flair and insight to a perception-changing reappraisal of this highly unusual monarch.
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