The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain
Wednesday 7 October
Castle Hill Baptist Church
10.30am
1603: Elizabeth I has died, bringing the Tudor line to an end. Is England on the edge of crisis?
Enter King James from Scotland, who now establishes a new dynasty on the English throne, and, with it, the first ‘united’ kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales was born: the Stuarts have arrived.
Join Anna Whitelock as she celebrates the reign of the first King of Great Britain, a King with global ambitions. From the historic voyage of the Mayflower to the alliance between James and the Persian shah – over a joint love of silk – The Sun Rising revolutionises our understanding of the early 17th century and the figures that forged a global Britain and sowed the seeds of the future British Empire.