#WhatWereReading : Joe found Professor Anna Whitelock's The Sun Rising (pub Bloomsbury) to be a fascinating insight into the change from the Elizabethan to Stewart period, laying foundations for a more global Britain afterwards (for good & ill!).

Less a biography of James, more about the world changing around him, at home and abroad (in a seemingly ever expanding world as ships explore more and more of the globe), and how he and those around him react or change to those.

Now in PB

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See you, Jimmy !

You wait ages for a good history book on James VI & I, then three come along at the same time.

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#WhatWereReading : Joe is finding Prof Anna Whitelock's The Sun Rising absolutely fascinating. James VI & I & the foundations of a later, global Britain; #History with lessons pertinent to today's world.

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