play Play pause Pause 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...
play Play pause Pause 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...
play Play pause Pause 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...
play Play pause Pause 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 ...
play Play pause Pause 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...
play Play pause Pause 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...
play Play pause Pause 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...
play Play pause Pause 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 ...
play Play pause Pause trailer May 17, 2024 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....
