Steven J. Reid is a historian based at the University of Glasgow where he is Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture.
Reid won the Scottish History Society Rosebery Prize for palaeography in 2007.Scottish History Society: Rosebery Prize He gained a PhD in history from the University of St Andrews in 2009.University of Glasgow profileSteven Reid profile, The ConversationSteven J. Reid, "Education in post-Reformation Scotland: Andrew Melville and the University of St Andrews", University of St Andrews PhD thesis, 2009
Reid was Principal Investigator (PI) for the UKRI/AHRC funded project "Bridging the Continental divide: neo-Latin and its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland, as seen in the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum".UKRI: Bridging the Continental divide His recent work has utilised unpublished sources for Scottish history, including the treasurer's accounts (1580–1603) and a collection of letters sent to George Bowes formerly kept at Streatlam Castle.Steven J. Reid, "One King and Many", Alexander Courtney and Michael Questier, James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion (Routledge, 2025), pp. 32, 42 fns. 68–72: Steven J. Reid, The Early Life of James VI, A Long Apprenticeship (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023), pp. 19–20: Steven J. Reid, "Family, Performativity and Justice in Early Modern Scotland: Elite Display and the Death of the Fourth Earl of Atholl, 1579", The Scottish Historical Review, 105 (1), no. 267 (April 2026), p. 3.
Selected publications "Family, Performativity and Justice in Early Modern Scotland: Elite Display and the Death of the Fourth Earl of Atholl, 1579", The Scottish Historical Review, 105 (1), no. 267 (April 2026), pp. 1–23. "One King and Many: New Perspectives", Alexander Courtney and Michael Questier, James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion (Routledge, 2025), pp. 19–43. 'Thomas Maitland's "the Consecration of James VI"', in, Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland (Boydell, 2024). (ed.) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).Janet Dickinson, "Exploring the cultural legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots", The Art Newspaper, 5 August 2024 The Early Life of James VI, A Long Apprenticeship (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023).Amy Elizabeth Saunders, "Review: The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship 1566–1585. By Steven J. Reid", Royal Studies Journal, 11:1 (2024), pp. 156–158. (ed.) with Miles Kerr-Peterson, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland: 1578-1603 (Routledge: Abingdon, 2017). (ed.) with David McOmish, Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland (Brill, 2017). "A Latin Renaissance in Reformation Scotland? Print Trends in Scottish Latin Literature", Scottish Historical Review, 95:240, Part I (April 2016), pp. 1–29. Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland, 1560–1625 (Ashgate: Farnham, 2011).
References
External links 'In my End is my Beginning': The Memorialisation and Cultural Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots, 1567-2019 Bridging the Continental divide: neo-Latin and its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland