Alexander Courtney

This week's podcast is on the Wilton Diptych; what it's all about and who may have painted it.
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📣 We are thrilled to announce that the Winter 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.4) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance
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1582: So, perhaps time for a brief review of 1582, even though 1583 doesn't officially start until March. In England itself, it’s been relatively stable. At the start of the year there was still some remote chance that Elizabeth would marry the duke of Anjou, which ... 1/
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Royal Studies Journal 12.2 is now published, featuring the RSJ Article Prize Winner 2025, a global diplomacy cluster, five research articles and seven book reviews.

📖 Read the issue here: rsj.winchester.ac.uk/31/volume/12...
🎧Listen to the prize winner podcast here: bit.ly/4s5g7xI

@alicehunt.bsky.social: thank you very much for mentioning my James VI biography here!

Volume 2 is indeed coming, also from Routledge, in 2028.

BBC Two tonight at 9 (and on iPlayer)… A little cameo for Basilikon Doron and @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

Happy Powder Treason Night!
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Fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @witchykallestrup.bsky.social about The Construction of #Witchcraft in #EarlyModern #Denmark @routledgebooks.bsky.social #skystorians This is how you write a book and take an interview! #BookSky📚💙

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(reminder) and 'American English' version (@davidveevers.bsky.social ) on Wednesday, 22 October, at 8 am EDT 😁

A pleasure to speak on Mary Stuart’s secret letters on BBC Radio Scotland this morning (though briefly).

Listen to The Sunday Show from 1:27:50 onwards.

See the English language version of the documentary on BBC iPlayer & BBC Two Mon 21 Oct at 9pm.

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I’ve just seen a short clip from the PBS version: great narration!

Excellent - enjoy! There will be another version in Germany too, I understand. Mary Stuart’s world tour!

You’ll enjoy it, I’m sure.
Yes - the Mary letters are a great windfall of words! Such a joy to work on!

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Thanks, Eilish! If you haven’t seen it, the epic French version, which is longer, is a better guide to the letters themselves - the decryption and significance of which are more the focus there. Strong recommend: ARTE app or their YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Kq...

Tonight, 9pm on BBC Scotland & Monday 20/10, 9pm on BBC Two: ‘The Secret Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots’.

Featuring some lovely shots of @selwyn1882.bsky.social and a word or two from me about my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s phenomenal discovery.

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Secrets of the Dead Returns to PBS | October 2025 YouTube video by Secrets of the Dead PBS

Coming soon on @pbs.org : Cracking the Queen’s Code

22 October
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Ha ha! Yes - until his next opportunity to do otherwise…

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For ‘famously’ read ‘allegedly’, in my view. The ‘evidence’ concerning Buchanan’s schooling of James VI has been much misunderstood.

A regarder ce soir : « Marie Stuart, l’énigme des lettres codées » sur Arte Le documentaire relate comment trois « codebreakers » ont décrypté les correspondances de la reine maudite après sa mort. Une grande aventure du déchiffrement.

📣 A regarder ce soir sur ARTE !!!

Le documentaire passionant d’Augustin Viatte sur la découverte des lettres codées de Marie Stuart @labnf.bsky.social
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Seuls des rois de la cryptanalyse pouvaient percer le mystère des lettres codées d'une reine ✍️

The wonderful documentary of my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s discovery and decipherment of #MaryQueenofScots lost letters.

Beautifully crafted by writer and director Augustin Viatte.

On @artefr.bsky.social online now and on TV 🇫🇷🇩🇪 27 September.👇

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The wonderful documentary of my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s discovery and decipherment of #MaryQueenofScots lost letters.

Beautifully crafted by writer and director Augustin Viatte.

On @artefr.bsky.social online now and on TV 🇫🇷🇩🇪 27 September.👇

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Chamberlain’s letters are great. Thanks for sharing. Tripping on the stairs needn’t mean James was tipsy, of course, and the existence of the newsletter suggests that the fall was not covered up.

New podcast episode available in French! Join our host @vic-de-valois.bsky.social and guest speaker Fanny Giraudier as they discuss the "Violence à la cour française" conference.

Listen here or on your favourite podcast platform : www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies?

Join us on the 8 October to find out more.

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It’s wonderful public interest in James VI & I’s life and reign is rising, AND that readers can turn to several new books about him.📚

Here are Steven Veerapen, Clare Jackson, Steven Reid and me discussing our man; Laura Stewart chairing.
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James VI of Scotland became Elizabeth’s successor peacefully and was welcomed into England, people’s ‘eyes flaming nothing but sparks of affection’ towards him (as he put it).

There was no better supported claimant; no one with a stronger claim.

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Thank you, Neil. This is most kind! I really enjoy that moment of Jacobean political psalmody!