Julian Goodare is a professor of history at University of Edinburgh.

Academic career

Goodare studied at the University of Edinburgh in the 1980s, afterwards engaged as a postdoctoral fellow. He lectured at the University of Wales, and at the University of Sheffield. He returned to work at Edinburgh in 1998. He was the co-director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft alongside Louise Yeoman.^[1][2][3] In 2019, he called for a memorial to Scotland's tortured and executed witches.^[3]

Goodare has published articles and book chapters on crown finance in the early modern period. Subjects include the administration known as the Octavians,^[4] and the annual sums of money which Elizabeth I gave James VI of Scotland, which he argues ought to be known as the English subsidy.^[5] He explored the significance of the "Ainslie Bond", made in support of the Earl of Bothwell, in the light of Jenny Wormald's work on comparable bonds.^[6]

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