What a Thing to Say to the Queen! is a collection of anecdotes celebrating the lighter side of the royal family, specially updated to mark the passing of the much-loved monarch.
Royal fever Otnes, Cele C; Maclaran, Pauline
2015., 20151019, 2015, 2015-10-19
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No monarchy has proved more captivating than that of the British Royal Family. Across the globe, an estimated 2.4 billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on ...television. In contemporary global consumer culture, why is the British monarchy still so compelling? Rooted in fieldwork conducted from 2005 to 2014, this book explores how and why consumers around the world leverage a wide range of products, services, and experiences to satisfy their fascination with the British Royal Family brand. It demonstrates the monarchy's power as a brand whose narrative has existed for more than a thousand years, one that shapes consumer behavior and that retains its economic and cultural significance in the twenty-first century.The authors explore the myriad ways consumer culture and the Royal Family intersect across collectors, commemorative objects, fashion, historic sites, media products, Royal brands, and tourist experiences.Taking a case study approach, the book examines both producer and consumer perspectives. Specific chapters illustrate how those responsible for orchestrating experiences related to the British monarchy engage the public by creating compelling consumer experiences. Others reveal how and why people devote their time, effort, and money to Royal consumption-from a woman who boasts a collection of over 10,000 pieces of British Royal Family trinkets to a retired American stockbroker who spends three months each year in England hunting for rare and expensive memorabilia.Royal Feverhighlights the important role the Royal Family continues to play in many people's lives and its ongoing contribution as a pillar of iconic British culture.
Contemporary Britain is experiencing an enduring and devastating housing crisis spearheaded in 1980 by Margaret Thatcher’s introduction of the “Right to Buy” social housing and sustained by an ...enduring neoliberal hegemony. This article contextualises the housing crisis through data and information drawn from journalism, charities, and government. It then explores how the crisis is conveyed in two recent plays. Sh!t Theatre’s 2016
focusses on company members Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit’s overcrowded and unsafe North London flatshare.
is a verbatim show set in a hostel for homeless young people in East London, produced by the National Theatre and co-researched and directed by Nadia Fall in 2013. As well as exploring the shows’ narration of the devastating social and material impacts of the housing crisis, the article draws on urban theory’s concept of psychogeography alongside video documentation of both plays to explore how they affectively convey the spatial and emotional consequences of the crisis. The article shows how the spatialisation of theatre – not just its textual elements – helps articulate both the spatiality of the housing crisis in contemporary urban life in neoliberal Britain and, especially, how that spatiality feels. It makes the case for thinking psychogeographically about theatre in order to focus on the ways it braids spatial and emotional understanding – crucial factors for properly comprehending, and potentially changing, the UK housing crisis.
By the early twentieth century it was becoming clear that the Empire was falling apart. The British government promoted the Crown as a counterbalance to the forces drawing the Empire apart, but when ...India declared their intent to become a republic in the late 1940s, Britain had to accept that allegiance to the Crown could no longer be the common factor binding the Commonwealth together. They devised the notion of the Headship of the Commonwealth, enabling India to remain in theCommonwealth while continuing to give the monarchy a pivotal symbolic role. Monarchy and the End of Empire provides a unique insight on the triangular relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945. In the years of rapid decolonization which followed 1945 it became clear that this elaborate constitutional infrastructure posed significant problems for British foreign policy. Not only did it offer opportunities for the monarch to act without ministerial advice, it also tied the British government to what many within the UK had begun to regard as a largely redundant institution. Philip Murphy employs a large amount of previously-unpublished documentary evidence to argue that the monarchy'srelationship with the Commonwealth, initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening Imperial ties, had increasingly become an impediment to British foreign policy.
Royalty Inc. will combine a history of the British Crown's evolution thorugh the modern age with a journalistic peek behind the curtain at the machinery that sustains the Windsors today.
This unique and meticulously researched study examines the triangular relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945. Through two principal areas of ...focus—the monarch’s role as sovereign of a series of Commonwealth realms, and her position as Head of the Commonwealth—it traces how, in the early twentieth century, the British government promoted the Crown as a counterbalance to the centrifugal forces that were drawing the empire apart. Ultimately, however, with newly independent India’s determination to become a republic in the late 1940s, it had to accept that allegiance to the Crown could no longer be the common factor binding the Commonwealth together. It therefore devised the notion of the Headship of the Commonwealth, as a means of enabling a republican India to remain in the Commonwealth while continuing to give the monarchy a pivotal symbolic role. In the post-war years of rapid decolonization, it became clear that this elaborate constitutional infrastructure posed significant problems for British foreign policy. The system of Commonwealth realms was a recipe for confusion and misunderstanding. Britain’s policy-makers increasingly saw it as a liability in terms of Britain’s relations with its former colonies, so much so that by the early 1960s, they actively sought to persuade African nationalist leaders to adopt republican constitutions on independence. The Headship of the Commonwealth also became a cause for concern, partly because it allowed the monarch to act without ministerial advice, and partly because it tended to tie the British government to what many within the UK regarded as a largely redundant institution.
Royal transport Pigott, Peter
Royal transport,
c2005, 2005, 2005-11-19
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The conveyance of royalty, whether to Balmoral or Buffalo, by Rolls Royce or Canadian Pacific train, has its own mysterious traditions and protocols. With dry humour and a keen sense of history, ...Peter Pigott describes how the British royal family has adapted to technological innovations. Organized thematically, the book is packed with well-researched details. We know all about the royal family's lives, especially their romances and scandals, but do we know who was the first monarch to drive a motorcar? The first to fly in an aircraft? Which king so loved his yacht that he ordered it scuttled on his death?Royal Transport is a fascinating look at how British royalty has travelled since the invention of steam. This richly illustrated book covers all modes of royal transport in Britain and the Commonwealth - some of the most famous and yet unknown transport in the world.
Undated. This is Windsor House, Queen Street, taken from some considerable height, perhaps the 1899 Co-operative building almost as soon as it opened. If so, this would be the year after Joseph ...Schofield died, Morley's first Mayor who had lived here most of the time that the Town Hall was being built. After his death the house was occupied by doctors in the town until it was eventuallly bought by Morley Co-op only to be sold on to Morley Town Hall who wanted extra premises for the expansion of the Public Health Department. It remained as such until extra building had been done behind the central clinic and the Public Health Department moved there. This left another area by the Town Hall to clear and the way was left open for the building of Windsor Court, the shopping precinct, Morrison's, the car park and petrol station from 1972 onwards. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive.
July 1971 View of the rear of Windsor House, Albion Street which was at the junction with Queen Street. It was built after 1866 and became the home of Joseph Schofield, who was Morley's first mayor. ...After he died in 1898 it remained a private residence until purchased by Morley Industrial Society. In the later 1920s it became the headquarters for the Borough Medical Officer of Health until 1971. Windsor House was demolished in January 1972 to make way for Windsor Court Shopping Complex.
