Paul Van Somer’s portrait of James VI & I in coronation robes, c 1620 - Royal Collection In the winter of 1618, a comet “nearly double the size of the moon” sped across the sky. Astrologists rushed to ...

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The King James Version of the Bible is the preferred version of many fundamentalist Christian churches — and the one being hawked by Donald Trump in a “God Bless the USA” edition, with the addition of ...

— -- England's King James I gave us Jamestown and the King James Bible. But historians have long suspected he also gave his descendant King George III an inherited case of madness. Best known ...

In a way, King James I of England is lucky. His predecessor Elizabeth was one of the most powerful and infamous monarchs in history, and his successor Charles got his head chopped off. Between those ...

The new mini-series dramatizes the Villiers family’s scandalous rise to power at the court of England’s James I Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Julianne Moore as Mary Villiers ...

In the historical drama “Mary and George,” new on Starz, Julianne Moore plays an ambitious mother whose son catches the eye of King James I of England. By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from London Standing ...

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 Fuseli’s ...