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Monarchs are influential people: their taste is mimicked and their patronage sought. Their political decisions – in times when they had the power to make political decisions – changed the course of society and that, in turns, changed the literature that those societies produced. That’s not the kind of influence that we’re going to look ...
Academic study of the monarchy has largely existed on the margins of modern British political history. David Craig’s discipline-summarizing and agenda-defining article on political history made no mention of the institution, for example. 1 Various reasons for this are considered in this chapter, but the most fundamental and iterated is that political history is about the study of power (in ...
26 de abr. de 2023 · The report, The British Monarchy, explains what the institution does and how it does it, and places the monarchy in its wider historical and comparative context. It should prove an indispensable guide ahead of the coronation, with more than a dozen leading experts delving into a broad range of issues and topics.
3 de dic. de 2016 · David Cannadine’s work has already shown that, when it comes to domestic British politics in the nineteenth century, Bagehot’s explanation of how monarchy works is practically flawed. Footnote 3 Vernon Bogdanor’s work has also shown, through his study of domestic political history in the twentieth century that Bagehot’s model does not work for that period either.
22 de abr. de 2021 · A monarchy is a form of government in which total sovereignty is invested in one person, a head of state called a monarch, who holds the position until death or abdication. Monarchs usually both hold and achieve their position through the right of hereditary succession (e.g., they were related, often the son or daughter, of the previous monarch ...
In the guise of a biography of the current queen, this is one of the best books on the modern British monarchy as an institution. Sarah Bradford talked to all the palace insiders, an amazing feat given how touchy and protective everyone around the queen is. Bradford has the best sense of the strengths of the current queen and her weaknesses.
15 de may. de 2024 · The British monarchy is more than just a family, it’s an institution dating back 1,000 years, generating billions for the UK economy while also having at its...
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