Steven J. Reid

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.^[1] He gained a PhD in history from the University of St Andrews in 2009.^{[2] [3] [4]}

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its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland, as seen in the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum".^[5] His recent work has utilised unpublished sources for Scottish history, including the treasurer's accounts (1580–1603) and a collection of letters sent to George Bowes formerly kept at Streatlam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.^[6]

• "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. doi:10.3366/shr.2026.0752
• "One King and Many: New Perspectives", Alexander Courtney and Michael Questier, James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion (Routledge, 2025), pp. 19–43. doi:10.4324/9781003319764-2
• '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).^[7]
• The Early Life of James VI, A Long Apprenticeship (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023).^[8]
• (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).

• '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

• Scottish historians
• 21st-century Scottish historians
• Living people
• Academics of the University of Glasgow
• Alumni of the University of St Andrews
• Historians of Scotland

• Year of birth missing (living people)