Modern monarchy and colonialism

Summary

Cindy McCreery joined the Department of History in 2002, after teaching at the University of Oxford and the University of Newcastle (Australia). Born in Sydney and raised in Australia, Singapore and Hawai’i, she majored in Humanities at Yale before specializing in eighteenth-century British history, with a focus on visual culture, in her Master’s and Doctorate degrees at Oxford. Cindy developed her interest in visual and material culture of both the maritime British Empire and British royalty during postdoctoral fellowships at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; University of New South Wales, Sydney and Paul Mellon Centre, London.

I am available to supervise Masters and PhD theses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain and the British empire, modern monarchy and colonialism, naval and maritime history and visual and material culture.

Supervisor

Dr Cindy McCreery.

Research location

History, School of Humanities (SOH)

Synopsis

Cindy McCreery is a cultural historian, whose current research focuses on the links between the British Royal Family and the Royal Navy in the nineteenth-century British Empire. She is particularly interested in the overlap between royal tours and naval voyages, relationships between western and non-western royalty and subjects in the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, as well as the role of print culture (newspapers, engravings, photographs) in promoting but also critiquing monarchy, imperialism and the navy.

Modern monarchy and colonialism, including:

• Global royal tours of: Prince Alfred (1867-71), Princes Albert Victor and George (1879-1881), George and Mary (future George V and Queen Mary) (1901) of Great Britain; King Kalakaua (1881) of Hawai’i, King Chulalongkorn (1987, 1907) of Siam and Sultan Abu Bakar (1860s-90s) of Johor
• Global royal families: 19 and early 20c. ‘family’ and ‘diplomatic’ connections between the British and Hawai’ian, Japanese and Siamese royal families
• The British Royal Family and Australia

Naval and maritime history, including:

• Royal naval officers, photographs and community in nineteenth-century overseas British naval bases in the Indian Ocean and Pacific worlds

Visual and material culture, including:

• Royal legacies and material culture, including palaces, monuments and royal regalia in the Asia-Pacific region
• Exchange and display of honours and decorations (e.g. Order of the Garter, Order of the Star of India) by royal figures within as well as beyond the late 19 and early 20c. British empire

 

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3159