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

Goodare studied at the University of Edinburgh in the 1980s, afterwards engaged as a postdoctoral fellow.

He was the co-director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft alongside Louise Yeoman.

[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.