Clare Jackson

A major reassessment of one of Britain's most important monarchs. The Mirror of Great Britain explores the life of James VI & I, who died 400 years ago. He was one of Britain's most consequential and interesting monarchs, renowned for creating the British monarchy itself by uniting the English and Scottish thrones. A major intellectual figure, James's interests ranged from...

A major reassessment of one of Britain's most important monarchs James VI & I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britain's most consequential and interesting monarchs, not least in creating the British monarchy itself by joining the English and Scottish thrones. A major intellectual, James's preoccupations ranged from witchcraft and theological controversy to hunting, diplomacy, poetry and sartorial...

A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as Devil-Land—a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism, and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual...