In this week's podcast we speak to Dr. Cindy McCreery, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia, about her lead in Modern Monarchy in Global Perspective Research Hub. https://global-modern-monarchy.sydney.edu.au/ and the convening of  an international conference online: “Going Platinum: Australian responses to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, 1952-2022” from 20th-22nd June: https://global-modern-monarchy.sydney.edu.au/going-platinum-conference/

Dr. McCreery's current major research focus is monarchy and colonialism. With her colleague Robert Aldrich she has edited three volumes in Manchester University Press’s Studies in Imperialism series: Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires (2016), Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism (2018), Monarchies and Decolonisation in Asia (2020), as well as a special issue of the Royal Studies Journal on twentieth-century British royal tours of the Dominions (2018). With Falko Schnicke and Robert Aldrich she is editing a forthcoming Oxford University Press volume entitled Global Royal Families. She is now working on nineteenth and early twentieth-century global royal travel, examining the journeys of King Kalākaua of Hawai’i, Prince Alfred, the teenage Princes Albert Victor and George, as well as the adult George and his wife Mary (Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, later King George V and Queen Mary) of Great Britain.

@DrCindyMcCreery
@Monarchy_Global

In this week's podcast we talk to Estelle Paranque about her new book covering two amazing women from history - Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici.

Estelle Paranque is an Assistant Professor in History at NCH at Northeastern (London campus). She has participated in several international historical documentaries on TV, including BBC Two's The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (aired in August 2021), where she shared her knowledge of Anglo-French relations under Henry VIII's reign. She has also participated in Secrets d'Histoire (France 2/ France 3) as well as the history podcasts, HistoryHit, Not Just the Tudors, and Talking Tudors. She has extensively published on the Tudors and the Valois and is the author of Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

www.estelleparanque.com
@DrEstellePrnq

Purchase Estelle's latest book here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Fire-Gold-Elizabeth-Catherine/dp/1529109221/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=229PA72DOLYKU&keywords=estelle+paranque&qid=1654783655&sprefix=%2Caps%2C47&sr=8-1

Dr. Gabrielle Storey hosts part 2 of this fascinating round table discussion - 
Memorialising Pre-Modern Monarchs.

Links to the works discussed in this podcast can be found below:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84130-0

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-middle-ages-in-modern-culture-history-and-authenticity-in-contemporary-medievalism/ch7-malevolent-and-marginal?from=search

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/inventing-eleanor-9781441141354/

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351035149-15/catherine-great-elena-teibenbacher

https://www.routledge.com/Disability-and-Art-History/Millett-Gallant-Howie/p/book/9780815392132

Dr. Gabby Storey hosts the first of a two part round table discussion, memorialising pre-modern monarchs.

This month we talk to Dr Rachel Delman about her Royal Studies Journal prize winning article and her wider work on royal women and architectural patronage.

Almost two hundred years before Inigo Jones completed the Queen’s House for Henrietta Maria at Greenwich, another French-born queen consort of England had established the first queenly household there. In 1447, Margaret of Anjou acquired the riverside residence of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, on what is now the site of the Old Royal Naval College. Over the next five years, the Queen commissioned a substantial programme of building works at the site, which transformed the existing manor house into a royal palace. Margaret’s reputation and exercise of power have been widely discussed, yet little consideration has been given to her building activities, and their broader implications for our understanding of her gender role as consort. Through its examination of the location, layout, and design of Margaret’s palace, this article sheds new light on the ways in which the Queen deployed the built environment to articulate her power and status. More broadly, it contributes to scholarship on royal women’s patronage and curation of domestic space, and that concerning the role of queens as agents of cultural transfer. 

This week we talk about Royal Jubilees past and present with Dr. Carolyn Harris.