21H.342
The Royal Family
Fall 2003
Topics
- Tudors and Stuarts
- Royal Pageantry and Royal Politics
- Discussion
- George I and George II
- George III
- Movie: The Madness of King George
- Prince Regent and George IV
- Video: A Royal Scandal
- Transition: William IV to Victoria
- The Young Queen
- Victoria and Albert
- Empress of India
- Edward VII and George V
- The Abdication of Edward VIII
- George VI: Their Finest Hour
- Elizabeth II
- Class Presentations
- Class Presentation
Readings
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- Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Townsend, Sue. The Queen and I.
- Griffiths, Ralph Alan, and John Ashton Cannon. The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. (referred to as “G and C” in table below)
- Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 1987.
- Townsend, Sue. The Queen and I. New York: Soho Press Inc., 1994.
- Oakland, John. “The Monarchy” in British Civilization . London, New York: Routledge, 1996.
- Cannadine. The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The British Monarchy and the ‘Invention of Tradition’ , c.1820-1977. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Thackeray, William M. The First Four Georges. New York: Book League of America, 1937. (selection)
- Burney, Fanny. The Diary of Fanny Burney. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1940. (selection)
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- Strachey. Queen Victoria. Chapters 1-6.
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- Cannadine, David. “The Jubilee Program” in King George V . New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1991.
- Windsor, Edward. A King’s Story - The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor. London: Prion Books, 1998. (selection)
- Townsend. The Queen and I.
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- Douglas-Home, Charles, and Kelly, Saul. 1937. Dignified & Efficient: the British Monarchy in the Twentieth Century. Brinkworth, Wilts: Claridge Press, 2000.
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- Buckingham, Duke of. Buckingham’s Court of George IV. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
- ———. Buckingham’s Court of the Regency. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1856.
- Bury, Lady Charlotte Campell. Diary of the Times of George IV. 4 vols. London: Henry Colburn, 1838.
- Clerici, Graziano Paolo. A Queen of Indiscretions . Translated by Frederic Chapman. London: John Lane the Bodley Head.
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- Cobbett, William. King George IV. 2 vols. London: Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1830.
- Coxe, Howard. The Stranger in the House . London: Chatto & Windus, 1939.
- Creston, Dormer. The Regent and his Daughter . London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1932.
- Croly, Rev. George. George IV . New York: J. & J. Harper, 1831.
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- Fulford, Roger. George The Fourth . London: Duckworth, 1935.
- ———. The Trial of Queen Caroline . London: B. T. Batsfor Ltd., 1967.
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- ———. Memoirs of Caroline. 2 vols. London: Thomas Kelly, 1820.
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- James, Robert Rhodes. 1933 - A spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI. London: Abacus, 1999, 1998.
- Green, Robert. 1969 - Queen Elizabeth II. New York: F. Watts, 1997.
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- Andersen, Christopher P. Diana’s Boys: William and Harry and the Mother They Loved. Rockland, MA: Wheeler Pub., 2002, 2001.
- Dougherty, Terri. Prince William. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2002.
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