Julian Goodare is a professor of history at

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Academic career

Goodare studied at the

in the 1980s, afterwards engaged as a postdoctoral fellow. He lectured at the

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, and at the

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. He returned to work at Edinburgh in 1998. He was the co-director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft alongside Louise Yeoman. In 2019, he called for a memorial to Scotland's tortured and executed witches. Goodare has published articles and book chapters on crown finance in the early modern period. Subjects include the administration known as the

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, and the annual sums of money which

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gave

James VI of Scotland James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...

, which he argues ought to be known as the English subsidy. He explored the significance of the " Ainslie Bond", made in support of the Earl of Bothwell, in the light of

Jenny Wormald Jennifer Wormald (18 January 1942 – 9 December 2015) was a Scottish historian who studied late medieval Scotland, late medieval and early modern Scotland. Life Jennifer (Jenny) was born in Glasgow on 18 January 1942, and was adopted by Margar ...

's work on comparable bonds.Julian Goodare, 'The Ainslie Bond', ''Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625'' (Edinburgh, 2014), pp. 15, 301-319.

Publications

* Adams, S. and Goodare, J. (eds.) (2014) Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer * Boardman, S. and Goodare, J. (eds.) (2014) Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625: Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press * Goodare, J. (ed.) (2013) Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan * Goodare, J. 'The Debts of James VI of Scotland', ''Economic History Review'', 62:4 (November 2009), pp. 926–952 * Goodare, J. and MacDonald, A. (eds.) (2008) Sixteenth-Century Scotland: Essays in honour of Michael Lynch. Leiden: Brill DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004168251.i-476 * Goodare, J., Martin, L. and Miller, J. (eds.) (2008) Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan * Goodare, J. (ed.) (2002) The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press * Goodare, J. and Lynch, M. (eds.) (2000) The Reign of James VI. East Linton: Tuckwell Press * Goodare, J. (1999) State and Society in Early Modern Scotland. Oxford: Oxford University Press

References

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