GPP Coffee Break

Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London.

Join us on May 24, 2022, at 3:00 pm BST (10:00 am ET) for a presentation by Georgian Papers Programme Fellow Mary-Jannet Leith (University of Southampton) titled “‘Then I play’d upon the Harpsichord’: Music in the Private Lives of George III and Queen Charlotte.”

The paper offers a work-in-progress update on Dr. Leith’s 2021 GPP Fellowship research, which explores the various ways George III and Queen Charlotte engaged with music in their private, domestic lives. Using the wealth of materials available in the digitised Georgian Papers catalogue (private correspondence, diaries, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of members of both royals), together with collections held at the British Library, the paper will shed light on their personal relationships with music. In Queen Charlotte’s diaries, she often records her own harpsichord practice, musical evenings at home with friends, as well as recreational attendance of the ‘Ancient Concerts’ and the opera. The queen’s correspondence also reveals close relationships with the many German musicians she selected for her Queen’s Band, particularly J.C. Bach, whose death in 1782 she found profoundly upsetting. This sense of a strong emotional connection with music and musicians is also evident in the extensive medical reports of George III, in which he is often described as arranging concerts for wished-for company, playing on the harpsichord and flute, and singing sacred and secular music. Examining these descriptions may bring us closer to an understanding of the true extent of George III’s personal relationship with music, and the solace which it appears to have given him during his periods of illness.

This project has received further funding from the Continuo Foundation, and a live concert re-creating a musical evening with Queen Charlotte will be performed and filmed for later release in summer 2022 by award-winning period group Ensemble Hesperi.

About the series

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) coffee breaks are an informal opportunity for researchers throughout the world to gather together virtually to discuss ongoing projects. Each session features a short presentation from a GPP researcher followed by open discussion of the project, suggestions for related material, or general conversation about the archives and research. The presenters in these events are often in the early stages of their project and the coffee breaks aim to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about both the materials in Windsor as well as other repositories throughout the world.

We limit the size of these events to 40 participants in order to encourage discussion among and between participants. No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to create a trusted working environment for developing projects.

 

GPP Coffee Break

Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London.

Join us on May 12, 2022, at 3:00 pm BST (10:00 am ET) for a presentation by Georgian Papers Programme fellow Natalee Garrett (University of St. Andrews) titled “Queen Charlotte: Family, Duty, Scandal.”

Dr. Garrett is working on a biography of Queen Charlotte which aims to place her in a wider context of queenship in early modern Europe by examining her patronage and her legacy, alongside consideration of her role as royal wife and mother.

About the series

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) coffee breaks are an informal opportunity for researchers throughout the world to gather together virtually to discuss ongoing projects. Each session features a short presentation from a GPP researcher followed by open discussion of the project, suggestions for related material, or general conversation about the archives and research. The presenters in these events are often in the early stages of their project and the coffee breaks aim to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about both the materials in Windsor as well as other repositories throughout the world.

We limit the size of these events to 40 participants in order to encourage discussion among and between participants. No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to create a trusted working environment for developing projects.

 

GPP Coffee Break

Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London.

Join us on March 4, 2022, at 5:00 pm GST (noon ET) for a presentation by award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell titled “‘High Heads’: Hair, Politics, and Power at the Georgian Court.”

In the late Georgian period, elaborate headdresses—constructed at great expense over periods of hours—played a critical role in court etiquette and female self-expression as well as fashion. My research examines the life and work of J. B. Suardy (sometimes spelled “Suardi” or “Sonardi” but usually rendered as “Swarthy”), who held the position of hairdresser to Queen Charlotte, and his contemporaries.

About the series

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) coffee breaks are an informal opportunity for researchers throughout the world to gather together virtually to discuss ongoing projects. Each session features a short presentation from a GPP researcher followed by open discussion of the project, suggestions for related material, or general conversation about the archives and research. The presenters in these events are often in the early stages of their project and the coffee breaks aim to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about both the materials in Windsor as well as other repositories throughout the world.

We limit the size of these events to 40 participants in order to encourage discussion among and between participants. No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to create a trusted working environment for developing projects.

 

 

GPP Coffee Break

Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London.

Join us on January 21, 2022, at 3:30 pm GST (10:30 am EST) for a presentation by John McCurdy (Eastern Michigan University) as he outlines the connections between manhood and military service in Georgian Britain and colonial America in a talk titled “Martial Manhood in the Anglo Atlantic.”

McCurdy states, “We know that warfare is critical to constructions of gender, but we have not considered how changes in the military and masculinity coincided. In the eighteenth century, European armies went through unprecedented technological and organizational transformations as small armies of pikemen fighting for aristocrats were replaced by professional soldiers who warred for empire with muskets and cannons. At the same time, manhood was altered by Enlightenment ideals, shifting from a generative identity based on patriarchal hierarchy to a Lockean notion which presumed an equality of manhood regardless of familial status. I want to see how these two intersected. To date, my research has primarily focused on British regiments in the American colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. Specifically, I have unearthed trial transcripts of British officers accused of sexual crimes. In my talk, I will discuss these early findings and how I am using them to think about martial manhood. I am particularly interested advice on how to expand my research using the Georgian Papers as I have not yet been able to travel to the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.”

About the series

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) coffee breaks are an informal opportunity for researchers throughout the world to gather together virtually to discuss ongoing projects. Each session features a short presentation from a GPP researcher followed by open discussion of the project, suggestions for related material, or general conversation about the archives and research. The presenters in these events are often in the early stages of their project and the coffee breaks aim to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about both the materials in Windsor as well as other repositories throughout the world.

We limit the size of these events to 40 participants in order to encourage discussion among and between participants. No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to create a trusted working environment for developing projects.

Global Georgians: Transnational Interactions with the British Monarchy

This event will begin at 4:30 pm (16:30) London time, 11:30 am New York time.

New link for today’s event! Join us here: https://cwm.zoom.us/j/95564629851 

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) invites you to join us for a roundtable discussion about transnational interactions between the British monarchy and leader and peoples from around the globe.

This event builds on David Armitage’s time as the 2019 Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London. During his time with the GPP, Professor Armitage studied George III and the Law of Nations and our discussion will explore some of the insights from this project to understand more about connections between the British monarchy and the world outside of Europe. Three panelists will share short papers about their research into different parts of the world during, or just after, the reign of the Georgian monarchs. Charles Prior (University of Hull) will speak about ongoing research into the relationship between the British crown and Native American polities. Priya Atwal (University of Oxford) will discuss how royal blood framed Queen Victoria’s relations with Indian rulers and European princes in the mid-nineteenth century. And Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford) will discuss work on British interactions with the Qing dynasty in China, particularly the role of translators, officials, and the Macartney mission.

 

After hearing from the panellists, Professor Armitage will share his response to the papers and then we will open the event up to questions, comments, and discussion from the audience. We hope you are able to join us.

 

Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull, where he co-leads the research group Treatied Spaces. Among its projects is the AHRC-funded Brightening the Covenant Chain, which is concerned with diplomacy between the Haudenosaunee and the British Crown; the GPP is a significant contributing partner to this project. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country.

 

Henrietta Harrison is Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford and Stanley Ho Tutorial Fellow in Chinese History at Pembroke College.  She is a Fellow of the British Academy. Before coming to Oxford she taught in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, and in the Department of History at Harvard University.  Her books include The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village 1857-1942 (Stanford University Press, 2005) and The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village (University of California Press, 2013).

 

Priya Atwal is Community History Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her academic work specialises in the history of empire, monarchy and cultural politics across modern Britain and South Asia. Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire is her first book, published in 2020. Her research has been featured in collaborative projects with Historic Royal Palaces, among others; and she makes regular broadcast appearances, most recently presenting the BBC Radio 4 series, Lies My Teacher Told Me. She tweets @priyaatwal.

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School. He is also an Honorary Professor of History at both the University of Sydney and Queen’s University Belfast and an Honorary Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013), The History Manifesto (2014, co-auth.), and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). He has held fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea, and the United States, and in 2019, he was the Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor at King’s College London in association with the Georgian Papers Programme and the Royal Archives.

 

Exploring the Essays in the Georgian Papers

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) will run two public workshops in April and May 2021. The workshops will highlight the work of two researchers who joined the programme as part of the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities REP Partner Organisation scheme. Holly Day (University of York, 2021) and Jenny Buckley (University of York, 2019) each conducted critical research for the GPP, illuminating aspects of the Georgian Papers collections that are of value and interest for researchers and the public alike.  Join us as Dr. Jenny Buckley and PhD student Holly Day share their research on two exciting aspects of the Georgian Papers: inventories and essays.

Jenny Buckley created an exhibit based on her research into the Georgian essays, The Essays of George III, an important part of the Georgian Papers.

“Spanning topics such as history, geography, mathematics, music, moral philosophy, the constitution, and revenue and taxation, the ‘Essays’ offer multiple avenues through which we can re-evaluate our perceptions of George III, both as a man and as a monarch. By working through these categories, we can begin to understand the nature of these ‘private papers’ as a distinct collection within the context of the Georgian Papers. It is possible to draw thematic connections between the papers and, once these have been identified, interesting correlations emerge between George III’s writings and those of other members of the Royal Household.”

–Jenny Buckley

In our first workshop (April 20, 2021), Holly Day presents her exploration of the Georgian inventories. If you ever encountered an estate sale, or if you ever wondered how on earth the Georgian monarchs kept track of their incredible collections of art, plate, furnishings and more, then this workshop will help discover the value of Georgian inventories. You can visit that collection here. Inventories are a key part of the Georgian Papers. They are a fascinating and extraordinarily diverse set of materials that introduce us to the material world of the Georgian court, as well as to the royal household and other staff who were generating the inventories. See Exploring the Inventories in the Georgian Papers: A virtual exhibition by Holly Day.

Exploring the Inventories in the Georgian Papers

This event will begin at 4:30 pm (16:30) London time, 11:30 am New York time.

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) will run two public workshops in April and May 2021. The workshops will highlight the work of two researchers who joined the programme as part of the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities REP Partner Organisation scheme. Holly Day (University of York, 2021) and Jenny Buckley (University of York, 2019) each conducted critical research for the GPP, illuminating aspects of the Georgian Papers collections that are of value and interest for researchers and the public alike.  Join us as Dr. Jenny Buckley and PhD student Holly Day share their research on two exciting aspects of the Georgian Papers: inventories and essays.

In our first workshop, Holly Day presents her exploration of the Georgian inventories. If you ever encountered an estate sale, or if you ever wondered how on earth the Georgian monarchs kept track of their incredible collections of art, plate, furnishings and more, then this workshop will help discover the value of Georgian inventories. You can visit that collection here. Inventories are a key part of the Georgian Papers. They are a fascinating and extraordinarily diverse set of materials that introduce us to the material world of the Georgian court, as well as to the royal household and other staff who were generating the inventories.

Please visit Holly Day’s virtual exhibit for a preview for the materials that we will explore in this workshop: Exploring the Inventories in the Georgian Papers: A virtual exhibition by Holly Day.

GPP Coffee Break

This event begins at 10:30 am EDT (New York) or 15:30 BST (London) time.

Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London.

Join us on May 11, 2021, at 3:30 pm BST (10:30 am EDT) for a presentation by Cole Jones.

About the series

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) coffee breaks are an informal opportunity for researchers throughout the world to gather together virtually to discuss ongoing projects. Each session will have a short presentation from a GPP researcher and then we will open discussion out for questions about the project, suggestions for related material, or general conversation about the archives and research. The presenters in these events will often be in the early stages of their project and the coffee breaks aim to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about both the materials in Windsor as well as other repositories throughout the world.

We will limit the size of these events to 40 participants in order to encourage discussion among and between us. No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to create a trusted working environment for developing projects.

GPP Coffee Break

Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London.

Join us on April 27, 2021, at 3:30 pm GST (10:30 am EST) for a presentation by Ben Schofield (King’s College London) as he outlines the research he is planning to undertake as part of the Georgian Papers Programme Mount Vernon Fellowship. His wider project aims to explore German-American cultural relations from the 18th Century to the present, with George Washington one of several cases studies. His talk will briefly outline some of the areas he hopes to explore around Washington, and the wider life of the Mount Vernon estate, and how these might illuminate transnational attitudes towards ‘Germanness’ and German-American relations.

Ben Schofield is Reader in German and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern Literature & Culture at King’s College London. His research focuses on Transnational Studies and Comparative Cultural Studies, with core concerns in German and American Studies, and 19th Century Studies, especially the history of Revolution and nation-formation.

About the series

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) coffee breaks are an informal opportunity for researchers throughout the world to gather together virtually to discuss ongoing projects. Each session will have a short presentation from a GPP researcher and then we will open discussion out for questions about the project, suggestions for related material, or general conversation about the archives and research. The presenters in these events will often be in the early stages of their project and the coffee breaks aim to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about both the materials in Windsor as well as other repositories throughout the world.

We will limit the size of these events to 40 participants in order to encourage discussion among and between us. No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to create a trusted working environment for developing projects.

GPP Coffee Break

Join Georgian Papers Programme scholar Angel-Luke O’Donnell for an online version of the popular GPP Coffee Break series at King’s College London.

Join us on March 30, 2021, at 3:30 pm GST (10:30 am EST) for a presentation by Mary Louise O’Donnell, “Erin’s King: the politics and pageantry of George IV’s visit to Ireland in 1821.”

This year marks the bicentenary of George IV’s visit to Ireland in August/September 1821. The visit was preceded by several meetings in Dublin in July 1821, at which civic leaders and politicians representing various religious and political groups agreed to present a united front and not to use the visit as an opportunity to address Catholic and nationalist grievances. This display of unity amongst George IV’s Irish subjects was unprecedented. This short talk focuses on how George IV was represented as a unifying figure -‘Erin’s King’ – in contemporary songs and ballads and how aspects of Irish culture were used to reinforce this concept.

Mary Louise O’Donnell is a harpist and musicologist who has performed extensively throughout Ireland, Europe, Africa and Asia as a soloist and with various ensembles. She has published widely on topics relating to Irish cultural history, semiotics and performance studies; her first book, Ireland’s Harp: The Shaping of Irish Identity c. 1770-1880, was published in 2014 by UCD Press. Mary Louise has received many awards and grants to further her research, including an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, Centre Culturel Irlandais Fellowship and Dobbin Scholarship (ICUF).

About the series

The Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) coffee breaks are an informal opportunity for researchers throughout the world to gather together virtually to discuss ongoing projects. Each session will have a short presentation from a GPP researcher and then we will open discussion out for questions about the project, suggestions for related material, or general conversation about the archives and research. The presenters in these events will often be in the early stages of their project and the coffee breaks aim to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about both the materials in Windsor as well as other repositories throughout the world.

We will limit the size of these events to 40 participants in order to encourage discussion among and between us. No recordings are made of the discussions and no tweeting or posting on other social media platforms during the event is permitted in order to create a trusted working environment for developing projects.