The Royal Studies Podcast

This episode is a roundtable hosted by Johanna Strong featuring four scholars (Elena Woodacre, Sarah Betts, Lucy Coatman and Jessica Storoschuk) discussing representations of monarchy on the small and silver screen. Topics of discussion include Netflix's The Crown and The Empress, K-Dramas on the Joseon dynasty, Marie Antoinette in Sofia Coppola's iconic film and the recent BBC series and more! Join us for this lively chat about how royal figures are represented and some of the challenges in bringing both historical and current monarchies on screen!

If you are interested in this area of research, you might be interested in a call for contributors for a collection provisionally titled: "To Play the Queen: Historical Royal Women on Stage and Screen" (deadline 5 June 2023 for proposals).

More information on our guests:

• Sarah Betts (Twitter @WromanticHistry)
• Lucy Coatman (Twitter @lucy_coatman and website)
• Jessica Storoschuk (Twitter @anhistorianblog and website)
• Elena Woodacre (Twitter @monarchyconf)

In connection with International Women's Day, we have a feature on the research of Dr Helen Newsome and her work on the letter writing of queens. In this episode we discuss her work on editing the impressive letter collection of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots and her new research project 'The Queen's Post'.

To find out more about Dr Newsome's research and publications, you can view her institutional profile at University College Dublin where she is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow.

In this special three part podcast, Ellie Woodacre discusses the English Consorts series with members of the editorial team. This is the third episode, featuring as a conversation with the editors of volumes 2 & 3, Dr Joanna Laynesmith and Dr Aidan Norrie, who is also the lead editor of the entire four-volume series.

If you haven't already listened to our first episode on the English Consorts series, where we talked with the whole team, you may want to give it a listen to get the context of the wider four-volume project.  In addition, check out the second episode with the editors of volumes 1 & 4, Dr Danna Messer and Dr Carolyn Harris (respectively). 

The English Consorts collection, published in Palgrave Macmillan's Queenship and Power  series, reveals the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to the present day, through four volumes of innovative and authoritative biographies.

Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire, UK, and the Managing Editor of The London Journal.

Carolyn Harris is Instructor in History at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Canada, and a regular royal commentator in Canadian media.

J.L. Laynesmith is Visiting Research Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Reading, UK.

Danna R. Messer is Senior Acquisitions Editor at Arc Humanities Press, and the Executive Editor of The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages.

Elena Woodacre is Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester, UK, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal, and the founder of the Royal Studies Network.

In this special three part podcast, Ellie Woodacre discusses the English Consorts series with members of the editorial team. This is the second episode, featuring a discussion with the editors of volumes 1 & 4, Dr Danna Messer and Dr Carolyn Harris (respectively). If you haven't already listened to our first episode on the English Consorts series, where we talked with the whole team, you may want to give it a listen to get the context of the wider four-volume project.  Our next episode features a conversation with the editors of volumes 2 & 3, Dr Joanna Laynesmith and Dr Aidan Norrie, who is also the lead editor of the entire four-volume series.

The English Consorts collection, published in Palgrave Macmillan's Queenship and Power  series, reveals the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to the present day, through four volumes of innovative and authoritative biographies.

Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire, UK, and the Managing Editor of The London Journal.

Carolyn Harris is Instructor in History at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Canada, and a regular royal commentator in Canadian media.

J.L. Laynesmith is Visiting Research Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Reading, UK.

Danna R. Messer is Senior Acquisitions Editor at Arc Humanities Press, and the Executive Editor of The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages.

Elena Woodacre is Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester, UK, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal, and the founder of the Royal Studies Network.

In this episode we are speaking to Nicola Tallis, best-selling author and historian about her new book All the Queen's Jewels and her wider work on Tudor royal women.

Find out more about Nicola and all of her publications on her website.

If you enjoyed hearing about her book  and want to learn more about the jewellry collection of queens and royal women you might also be interested in taking her online course.

This episode features contributors from the Team Queens initiative, reflecting on their collective work on Team Queens and their own exciting research on queenship and royal studies.

You can find out more about Team Queens and the work that the team produced together on their website--please note that as the active stage of the project has finished, this is now a static site, but it is still full of fantastic resources for queenship students and scholars.

To find out more about the collaborators featured in this roundtable, you can follow them on twitter and/or check out their websites:

• Dr Gabrielle (Gabby) Storey: @GabbyStorey (twitter) @drgabbystorey (instagram) and website
• Jack Beesley: @Jack_E_Beesley
• Dr Johanna Strong: @jo_strong_  (twitter) @_johanna.strong_ (instagram) and website
• Holly Marsden: @HollyMarsden10

Johanna Strong reviews the Royal Studies Network's 2022 and highlights the achievements of the field of royal studies this year. We also look ahead to 2023 and all that we have planned. Happy New Year!

In this episode we're chatting with Sarah Betts, who has curated a 'cluster' of short pieces from various scholars in the field reflecting back on the life and legacy of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. 

After you have a listen to the episode, go check out the cluster in the December 2022 issue of the the Royal Studies Journal!

In this special two part podcast, Ellie Woodacre discusses the English Consorts series with members of the editorial team.

The English Consorts Series  reveals the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to the present day, through four volumes of innovative and authoritative biographies.

Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire, UK, and the Managing Editor of The London Journal.

Carolyn Harris is Instructor in History at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Canada, and a regular royal commentator in Canadian media.

J.L. Laynesmith is Visiting Research Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Reading, UK.

Danna R. Messer is Senior Acquisitions Editor at Arc Humanities Press, and the Executive Editor of The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages.

Elena Woodacre is Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester, UK, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal, and the founder of the Royal Studies Network.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tudor-Stuart-Consorts-Influence-Queenship/dp/3030951960

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This week we talk to Cathleen Sarti and Charlotte Backerra, co-founders of the Queen's Resources international research project investigating the economic agency and activities of royal women in premodern Europe.

In monarchies, power, law, finances, and economy were and are intertwined aspects of the royal household. Analysing the economic and financial resources of a monarchy, a dynasty or a court therefore also has implications for assessing the development of a realm or a state. Although historical research has considered monarchical rule at courts in general, there is still a need to analyse the administration of money and resources at court, the decision making behind patterns of expenditure and resource utilisation, and the strategies of royal investments.

Links:
https://www.queensresources.org/
http://monarchy-money.org/
https://www.queensresources.org/post/4-6-september-the-queen-s-resources-registration-open