Andrew Melville infamously called James VI God’s ‘sillie vassal’, but what do his writings reveal about his views on kingship and the power of the people? In this seminar paper, Dr. Steven Reid, Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, assesses Melville’s Latin poetry to provide a new angle on Scotland’s best-known Presbyterian thinker.

Professor Ted Cowan from the University of Glasgow and Professor Roger Mason of St Andrews University debate the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath and its legacy as part of the Vox Populi research seminar series, 2012-2013.

Claire Nance discusses her Kelvin Smith Scholarship project