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Earl Mountbatten and Constitutional Monarchy in 20th century Britain
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2004-05-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2004-01-21 |
| Announcement ID: |
136635 |
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Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-79) was perhaps the last great court politician of modern Europe. For over thirty years he played a major role in British global strategy and domestic statecraft, leaving his mark on matters as diverse as the partition of India, defence policy in the Cold War, the development of atomic weapons, and immigration from the Commonwealth. At the same time he occupied a unique place in British political culture in the middle decades of the twentieth century as unofficial Cabinet adviser, imperial trouble-shooter, eminence grise to the Windsors, and the lynchpin of what was left of the royal families of Europe. A remnant of the feudal past, he nonetheless made a decisive impact on modernity, in a manner which suggests that reports of the waning of the power of the crown are premature. What can Mountbatten’s life and times tell us about the place of constitutional monarchy in modern Europe? In July 2004 the University of Southampton, home to the Mountbatten papers since 1988, is hosting a conference devoted to exploring this question, and welcomes suggestions for papers from scholars worldwide. Expertise need not be confined to Mountbatten. We are keen to feature papers relating to the modern British and European royal families more generally.
Proposals for papers dealing with the following themes are invited:
- Mountbatten and SEAC
- The Dieppe raid
- Combined Operations
- Naval and defence policy in the 1950s and 1960s
- Mountbatten in India: partition and after
- Mountbatten and the media
- Mountbatten and the Windsors
- Mountbatten and the Wilson government, 1964-70
- Edwina, Countess Mountbatten
- The Mountbatten legend
- The House of Windsor and the royal families of modern Europe
- Courtiers and the court in 20th century Britain
- Monarchy and the end of empire
- The Royal Family since 1969
- The constitution and the royal prerogative
Venue: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
12-14 July 2004.
Please send an abstract or contact Professor Miles Taylor by 31st May 2004.
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