@cvspragg

ECA-funded PhD student at Uni of Edinburgh exploring King James VI & I's cultivation of a distinctly 'imperial' 'British' European image through art šŸ›ļø

 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/charlie-spragg
Joined October 2021
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Corryn Kosik and I are excited to be organising a panel on 'Architecture and Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland' for the @RSAorg 2027 Meeting in Philadelphia! Please see our CfP and forward to anyone who may be interested: rsa.org/forms/FormResponseViā€¦
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#callforpapers #earlymodern @RSAorg
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Corryn Kosik and I are excited to be organising a panel on 'Architecture and Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland' for the @RSAorg 2027 Meeting in Philadelphia! Please see our CfP and forward to anyone who may be interested: rsa.org/forms/FormResponseViā€¦
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We are happy to welcome Charlie Spragg as the new co-convenor of MVCS, joining returning convenor Corryn Kosik! Charlie is a final year doctoral researcher in History of Art. Her thesis examines the role of pageantry in the self-fashioning of King James VI & I.
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CFP for the conference 'Scotland's Historic Environments and the British Empire.'
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Cameron Maclean@CMaclean9612 Sep 2025
An extremely rare coin weight for a gold halfcrown of James VI & I. Unlike most coin weights which are of base metal, this one's made from silver. From the Hunterian collection.
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Itā€™s wonderful public interest in James VI & Iā€™s life and reign is rising, AND that readers can turn to several new books about him.šŸ“š Here are @stevenveerapen, Clare Jackson, Steven Reid and me discussing our man; Laura Stewart chairing. #Stuarts #KingJames400 #History #Tudors
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On the trail of James VI & Iā€¦ and the (no longer) lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scotsā€¦šŸ”šŸ¦„šŸ‘‘ Some highlights of a very special fortnight in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Paris. #KingJames400 #MaryQueenofScots #earlymodern #history @KingJamesConf @NatGalleriesSco @DrEstellePrnq
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Our conference programme is live! Come join us for our completely online conference 21-23 August! šŸ˜ engender-academia.com/conferā€¦

Conference 2025

Note: All times shown are BST, please consider adapting it to your own time zone. Day 1 (21st August) 10:00-10:15 = Welcome and introduction 10:15-11:35 = Pedagogies and Resistance (chair = Annika ā€¦

engender-academia.com
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For the past year I have been on the most amazing team organising the ā€˜Understanding King James VI & I 400 Years Onā€™ conference! (1/3) šŸ§µ
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The last 3 days have been absolutely incredibleā€¦ so much excitement, encouragement and synergy amongst our speakers and attendees about this fascinating historical figure and the groundbreaking research he continues to inspire! (2/3)
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This experience was deeply special to me on a professional and personal level and Iā€™m so glad so many others felt the same way - Iā€™m happy to say the future of Jacobean studies is in very safe hands! šŸ‘‘ (3/3)
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Cameron Maclean@CMaclean9612 Jul 2025
Coin badges made for the @KingJamesConf alongside the original coins from the Hunterian collection.
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What a three days! Thank you so much to all our speakers and attendees! šŸ‘‘
Understanding King James VI & I Conference@KingJamesConf11 Jul 2025
Thank you to our speakers and attendees for making the conference so special! Wonderful to hear from so many scholars who work on or are intrigued by James VI & Iā€¦ We hope you will keep the momentum going and we look forward to seeing what the future of Jacobean studies holds!
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We all loved this conference. Thank you so, so much to the organisers and the speakers and the audiences in person and online. We must do this again and again! A better advertisement for scholarly collegiality I cannot imagine.
Understanding King James VI & I Conference@KingJamesConf11 Jul 2025
Finally, we have the Biographers Roundtable. Laura Stewart talks with Alex Courtney, Steven Reid, Clare Jackson and Steven Veerapen about what inspired them to write about King James, how they feel about the man himself, and how they see scholarship moving forwardā€¦
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Thank you to our speakers and attendees for making the conference so special! Wonderful to hear from so many scholars who work on or are intrigued by James VI & Iā€¦ We hope you will keep the momentum going and we look forward to seeing what the future of Jacobean studies holds!
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The ā€˜Wall of Jamesesā€™ votes have been counted and the winner isā€¦ Nicholas Hilliardā€™s Lyte Jewel (c.1610-11)!!! (Modelled here by our speaker @EmilyHay2)
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Giving @cvspragg and I a microphone and the power to quiz a room of academics on the hardest 7 rounds of James VI & I questions? An inspired ideaā€¦šŸ‘‘šŸŽ¤ #understandingkingjames
Understanding King James VI & I Conference@KingJamesConf9 Jul 2025
The King James pub quiz is hotting up! PhD theses may be affected, careers may be brokenā€¦itā€™s very tense šŸ˜¬
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The King James pub quiz is hotting up! PhD theses may be affected, careers may be brokenā€¦itā€™s very tense šŸ˜¬
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And weā€™re off! DAY ONE, PANEL ONE - Inheritance Our own Charlie Spragg uses material culture to explain why Jamesā€™s 1603 coronation set out his stall as a ā€˜Britishā€™, rather than English or Scottish, monarchā€¦
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Really loved presenting a paper at @BristolUni today on early modern Scottish academics and students! Was part of a fantastic panel šŸ˜Š
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