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 The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft is an online database of witch trials in early modern Scotland, containing details of 3,837 accused gathered from contemporary court documents covering the period from 1563 until the repeal of the Scottish Witch ...

alongside

Louise Yeoman Louise Yeoman (born 1968) is a historian and broadcaster specialising in the Scottish witch hunts and 17th century Scottish religious beliefs. Career Yeoman completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews on the subject of the Covenanters. She ...

. 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

Octavians The Octavians were a financial commission of eight in the government of Scotland first appointed by James VI on 9 January 1596. James VI's minister John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane had died on 3 October 1595, and his financial sit ...

, 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 hi ...

, 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 Earl of Bothwell was a title that was created twice in the Peerage of Scotland. It was first created for Patrick Hepburn in 1488, and was forfeited in 1567. Subsequently, the earldom was re-created for the 4th Earl's nephew and heir of line, F ...

, in the light of

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

'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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