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Associate Professor Cindy McCreery

Appears in 9 Episodes

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S1 E8 Jul 09, 2024

Long to rule? Monarchy, Republicanism and the Commonwealth

Republicanism has long been one of the major challenges to monarchy, and the majority of countries in the world are now republics. Yet monarchies endure. King Charle...

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S1 E7 Jul 02, 2024

Lost imperial crowns: Monarchy and decolonisation

The wave of anticolonialism and nationalism that swept the world after the Second World War brought about the independence of many former colonies. The old imperial m...

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S1 E6 Jun 25, 2024

African kings: Monarchy and its challenges

There were numerous emperors, kings and other hereditary rulers of nations in pre-colonial Africa, though European conquerors with racist perspectives common in the ag...

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S1 E5 Jun 18, 2024

Casualties of war: Monarchs and the First World War

Since many royal families were related to each other by marriage, wars turned relatives into enemies. Such was the case in the First World War, when the British King ...

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S1 E4 Jun 11, 2024

Take me to your leader: colonialism and monarchy

Colonial expansion gave European (and some other) monarchs vast new domains – Queen Victoria, Empress of India, ruled over a fifth of humankind. But colonial monarchs...

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Recommended Episode S1 E3 Jun 04, 2024

Monarchy - Assassinations and other violent occupational hazzards

Many monarchs and other royals have met violent deaths – on the battlefield, by execution after revolution or their coup, and by assassinations at the hands of terrori...

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S1 E1 May 27, 2024

The Monarchy - What was true in Shakespeare’s time, is still true now.

Monarchy is one of the oldest and most widespread forms of government in the history of the world. Even today, more than forty countries have a monarch as the head of...

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S1 E2 May 27, 2024

Scandals and affairs

Scandals of various sorts have punctuated the history of royal dynasties, caused by family feuds, dubious financial arrangements, and frequently by sexual affairs and ...

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Introducing Monarchy in Peril

Join Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich, and Associate Professor Cindy McCreery - both from the University of Sydney - on this 8-episode podcast series about monarchy....

Appears in 9 Episodes

Long to rule? Monarchy, Republicanism and the Commonwealth

Lost imperial crowns: Monarchy and decolonisation

African kings: Monarchy and its challenges

Casualties of war: Monarchs and the First World War

Take me to your leader: colonialism and monarchy

Monarchy - Assassinations and other violent occupational hazzards

The Monarchy - What was true in Shakespeare’s time, is still true now.

Scandals and affairs

Introducing Monarchy in Peril

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